COCAINE users are driving the destruction of the rainforests and helping to fund terror groups which use kidnapping and land mines in Colombia, the South American state’s vice president warned.

SO THERE we were, one week after the historic IRA stand-down, anticipating an act of decommissioning any second and what happens? Up pops Jim Monaghan with Charlie Bird on the six o’clock news.

I DON’T know what the penalty is for travelling into this country on a false passport, but it must be considerably better than 17 years in a Colombian jail.

LEGAL experts yesterday discounted the possibility of the Colombia Three serving their sentence here, as the opposition challenged the Taoiseach to say whether he supported the idea.

THE Government last night insisted a proposal to enable the Colombia Three to serve their sentences here was feasible despite predictions the measure would never stand up in court.