The Progressive Democrats are using the survival of the salmon industry as a political football, an Oireachtas Committee claimed today.

A ROW erupted between an anti-abortion group and a powerful Oireachtas Committee yesterday amid allegations that almost 9,000 of the group’s submissions had been destroyed.

THE vice-president of the European Commission yesterday gave an undertaking to follow up with the Competition Commission on its stand that forced the Government to withdraw an estimated €100m grant to Intel.

SWIFT action by the authorities is required to back up the strong and lucid report of Mr Justice Feargus Flood, spokespeople across the range of political parties argued yesterday.

DISAPPOINTED general election candidates and hopefuls for a seat in the next Dáil figure among the Taoiseach's nominees to the Seanad, announced last night.