The Dutch industrialist who was the victim of the longest kidnapping in Irish history has donated his personal papers to the University of Limerick, it emerged today.

NEWT GINGRICH put up a stout defence of US President George W Bush’s intervention in Iraq on Marian Finucane’s radio show on Thursday.

PETER CORY, the Canadian judge who was appointed to investigate suspected police collusion in eight murders in both the North and Republic, has produced his reports.