With reference to Sean O’Riordan’s articles on the Irish Air Corps, it is ludicrous to suggest that this impoverished country should find €70m for a fighter plane, and we would need three planes to keep two maintained in flight-readiness.

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Former US Presidents, Bill Clinton and George Bush Senior, are continuing their tour of the tsunami hit areas of south-east Asia.

OUR world woke yesterday morning to news that John Kerry broke away from the pack in the New Hampshire Democratic primary in the American presidential election.