I AM disgusted at the hypocrisy of the left (Labour, Greens and SF-IRA) regarding the maintenance of the triple-lock on the Irish army serving overseas.

A man with a knife broke into a high school dormitory and killed eight students in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said today.

China’s President Hu Jintao has told US president George Bush that Taiwan’s independence “cannot be tolerated”, underscoring China’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the island.