AN unemployed hairdresser in a doomed marriage drank six glasses of wine and seven pints of cider on the night that ended with her stabbing her husband in the back with a carving knife.

COILLTE has denied it is being held to ransom for millions of euro in lost revenue by a small mollusc.

More than three years on and the country's Millennium Trees are fit and well - according to Coillte, the state-backed company that manages forests.

THE “ignorance” of the State forestry service Coillte has left contractors on the brink of collapse, a report has claimed. Since the forestry industry switched over from chainsaws to harvesting machines costing €250,000 or more, contractors have invested heavily with the aid of EU grants.