Decisions and action are needed before a stalemate on higher education funding leads to further impact on students, the author of a key 2016 report to Government has warned.

IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein probably survived a cruise missile attack on leadership compounds in Baghdad but was reportedly taken away in an ambulance, British Foreign Office minister Mike O’Brien has said.

A jobs fair aimed at bringing the talents of young Irish people back home was under way today in the heart of wealthy Manhattan.