AN EXPLOSIVE row at the heart of Fianna Fáil turned ugly last night as Transport Minister Noel Dempsey was embroiled in a bitter war of words with a member of the party’s top brass.

Island-hopping between Ireland’s offshore isles will be exempt from the Government’s controversial new air travel tax, it emerged today.

Close historical links between Ireland and Scotland will be celebrated in a new Irish publication dubbed a ’21st Century Book of Kells’.

THE Government yesterday set out an ambitious strategy for the Irish language aimed at creating a truly bilingual society over the next 20 years.

FIANNA FÁIL has succeeded in taking two of the three seats in the former Connacht-Ulster constituency several times in the past and they hope to do so again.

UP TO €30 million will be given to disadvantaged groups annually from the Dormant Accounts Disbursement Plan, Junior Minister Noel Ahern revealed yesterday.