Farmers, small business owners and self-employed workers will have to fight to be included in a €2.5 billion fund to retrain and upskill European victims of globalisation.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore has denied that Labour “hijacked” the outgoing Irish member of the European Court of Auditors, Eoin O’Shea.

STEVEN GEIER says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St John’s School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions.

Former students of a US priest suspected of molesting up to 200 deaf boys have given details of his alleged offences against them.