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A stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara received Cabinet approval before it was put on sale, An Post said.

An Post have issued a one euro stamp featuring the face of Che Guevara, a leading figure in the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s.

Clare O’Sullivan and Emma Fitzpatrick will contest the Gretta Cormican Cup final in a bid to secure a semi-final place in next month’s Queen of the Roads.

A poster of the iconic image of Che Guevara, by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, has been removed from Miami International Airport.

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Laois chairman Gerry Kavanagh has expressed delight at Seamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett’s return as senior hurling manager.

Laois GAA top-brass have not given up on Seamus Plunkett returning as county senior hurling manager.

Cork 1-25 Laois 0-24: Cork senior hurling manager Jimmy Barry Murphy expects Mark Ellis and Alan Cadogan to return for the Rebels Allianz League semi-final against Dublin on Sunday week.

Gardaí have charged 16 people with various counts of deception and making false reports in relation to orchestrated traffic accidents.

Witness says officers demanded he hand over secret recordings

Christy Mullins had a decisive win over James O’Donovan at Shannonvale.

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As a festival celebrating Cuban culture kicks off in Kilkee, Richard Fitzpatrick talks to artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the iconic image of Che Guevara, about his meeting with the revolutionary

Dozens of budding young artists are in the running to have their doodles seen by millions of internet users.

Thomas Mackle had an easier thanexpected win over Aidan Murphy in the Dunmanway Hospital Day Care Tournament semi-final at Derrinasafa on Sunday.

Edmund Sexton will feature in the Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads for the first time since 2003 following his sensational last shot win over David Murphy in the semi-final of the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig.

Locals in Kilkee have rebelled against Clare County Council’s decision to scrub out a mural of Che Guevara by replacing it with two more.

An iconic mural featuring the face of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara has been painted over by a local authority just weeks before a local Latin-American cultural festival.

Artist Séamus Nolan proposes that a boy who died in state care be made president for a day, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof is bringing the band back to Cork, and feels their music deserves more respect, writes Marc O’Sullivan

Commuters face travel disruption from the weekend after Bus Éireann workers voted for strike action.

The organisers of the second annual Che do Beatha festival in Kilkee have found — in Declan Ganley — an unlikely ally in playing down the controversy around the festival’s inspiration, Che Guevara.

The sister of Nicola Furlong brought tears to the eyes of mourners who packed St Margaret’s Church as she bravely eulogised her sister, saying: “The jigsaw of her life would never be finished.”

More than a week after she died in a Tokyo hotel room, the family of murdered 21-year-old student Nicola Furlong were able to bring her body home to Wexford yesterday.

RENOWNED artist Jim Fitzpatrick has launched a legal bid to finally get the rights of his famous picture of Che Guevara.

THE award-winning writer Colm Tóibín has condemned the construction of the M3 motorway, which opened yesterday.

Irish writer Colm Toibin has condemned the construction of the controversial M3 motorway which opened today.

A HIGH-LEVEL British government report has called for an end to the practice of paying a multi-million euro subsidy for Ireland’s lighthouses.

THIS week’s €280 million EU aid for dairy farmers is likely to be paid out in early 2010, equally to all dairy farmers based on their production.

A major study is in the pipeline to ascertain the impact that the GAA has on the economy, in order to strengthen the case of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) in relation to the awarding of government grants to inter-county GAA players.

IRISH motorists who break road traffic laws in Britain are facing on-the-spot fines, penalty points and vehicle confiscations from 2009, according to measures announced by the British government.

Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney has joined Hollywood actress Charlize Theron and artist Louis le Brocquy in the campaign against the M3 motorway.

PENALTY points for road offences will be transferred between the Republic, the North and Britain under a system expected to be in place within five years.

A drawing of Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick will be auctioned in Dublin today to raise funds for a group campaigning against the route of the M3 motorway in Co Meath.

Some passengers have still to be reunited with their luggage four weeks after the Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) opening fiasco, it was revealed today.

Passengers arriving at Heathrow’s Terminal Five today saw nothing of the chaos which has engulfed the building in past days.

THE Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) fiasco has led to 28,000 bags being placed in temporary storage and it could take up to a week to get them returned to their owners, the British Government announced yesterday.

The chief executive of British Airways tonight issued a fresh apology to travellers caught up in the Heathrow Terminal 5 fiasco but insisted the new facility would be a success.

The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) fiasco has led to 28,000 bags being placed in temporary storage and it could take up to a week to get them back to their owners, the British government announced today.

ALL art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde but these three paintings could prove very useful to People in Need.

CONCERN has been expressed again regarding the Leaving Cert results for maths and science. Perhaps the education minister and all those concerned should consider revisiting the methods of a 19th century pioneer of Irish education, Bro James Dominic Burke.