The latest threat to directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings did not come as a surprise according to director John McCartin.

The threat follows last month's abduction and torture of Quinn director Kevin Lunney, who is still recovering from his injuries.

The downgrading of a key garda station along the border between Cavan and Fermanagh has resulted in police being unable to provide an effective service, frontline gardaí have said.

The most expensive was a three-day music festival in Co. Westmeath.

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil councillors are reportedly "adopting" Sean Gallagher as their preferred presidential contender out of anger that their calls to run a candidate are being ignored by both parties' hierarchy.

Concern has being raised about a lack of skilled tradespeople.

Eleanor Shanley is from Leitrim but now lives in Ballinasloe, Co Galway. She sings with De Danann and also has a solo career that includes the recent release of an album, Forever Young. 

Former billionaire Sean Quinn is set to take a consultancy role with the company that has taken over his former manufacturing empire.

Seán Quinn, the former billionaire and head of the Quinn Group conglomerate, is to make his comeback in Irish business this week as a paid adviser to a new manufacturing business headed by a number of his former executives.

Parts of the former Quinn Group are to be sold on to a consortium led by a local councillor.

Gardaí and the National Monuments Service are investigating the theft of a carved stone window frame from a medieval ruin on Church Island on Garadice Lake, Co Leitrim.