A revolutionary €35m floating data centre is set to be moored on the banks of the River Shannon, in a move which could create 124 jobs.

The world’s top producers of greenhouse gases pledged to battle climate change today, but failed to agree on targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.

Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations are gathering in Germany today for their annual summit.