HUNDREDS of hard- pressed Irish widows are to descend on Leinster House in Dublin tomorrow to protest against the avalanche of welfare cuts and tax increases faced by their members and others.

THE driver of the sightseeing bus was conveying his collection of assorted tourists past the Mansion House — home of the first Dáil, he explained loudly so the two passengers on the open deck upstairs could hear — when suddenly he came across a sight not on his itinerary.