Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup: Gonzaga College kick-started their Leinster Schools’ Junior Cup campaign in fine style at Donnybrook yesterday, when a blistering first-half performance helped them towards a comprehensive triumph over Newbridge College.

Ireland took three gold medals, one silver, and five bronze at the opening day of the European Transplant and Dialysis Games in Poland.

While I have long been critical of the thinking at the topmost levels of the IFA, I do not underestimate their ability to mobilise and organise.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will not be making any recommendation to its members on how to vote in the EU Fiscal Treaty referendum.

NONE of the six people whose passports were used by the suspects involved in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander last month have ever travelled to the Middle East.

SIX Irish passports have been confirmed as having been used in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month.

A further forged Irish passport was used by a team of assassins who murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai, it was revealed tonight.

Diplomats were today investigating reports that two more Irish passports were linked to a team of assassins who murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai.

It has emerged one of those alleged to have been behind the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai listed a Dublin 4 property as his home address.

JAMES REYNOLDS, who is spearheading a No to Lisbon campaign on behalf of a breakaway group of farmers, emerged in the 2005 IFA election as the organisation’s self-appointed “Mr Clean”.

A SPLINTER group of farmers has launched a No to Lisbon campaign, claiming its introduction will dilute Irish inheritance laws and slash farming incomes in an enlarged EU.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan said recently that low euro interest rates and mass immigration from eastern Europe after 2004 were the main reasons for the overheating of the Irish economy which led to the recession.

SO we’re having a rerun of the vote on the exact same Lisbon Treaty on October 2 – what a travesty of democracy. The Wall Street Journal was correct when it said (June 26): “In some countries they rig votes, in the European Union they repeat votes to get the desired result.”

LIKE the grand old Duke of York, IFA president Padraig Walshe is taking farmers for a quick march around the streets of Luxembourg.

ON October 7 you published a letter from IFA president John Dillon in response to my open letter to the three IFA presidential candidates.

ON October 3 you published a letter from James Reynolds of the self-styled Family Farm Protection Group.

Gardaí in Co Louth are seeking help in tracing the whereabouts of a 24-year-old man who has been missing since Saturday.