A teenager’s detailed portrait of her brother, carefully executed with colouring pencils and white gel pen, has taken the top prize at this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

A leading Fine Gael minister has backed a former Fianna Fáil senator’s bid to be returned to the Upper House.

DISSIDENT EBS director Ethna Tinney may have had the overwhelming support of the 1,000 or so members who turned up to the society’s fractious annual general meeting yesterday but the board was not without its backers in the audience.