DOLE inspectors need to get tough on welfare recipients to make sure they really are trying to find work, a leading international economist has warned.

Spiralling oil prices should not distract G8 leaders from efforts to draw up a global deal to tackle climate change, a report urged today.

A 19TH century observatory built on a college campus will reopen on Thursday after a €500,000 renovation project.

HOW appropriate that Bryan and Kerry 'Queen of the Jungle' McFadden are rumoured to being buying Cooleville in Co Tipperary.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is in seventh heaven as it advances plans to restore a century-old observatory on campus.