As Autumn storms herald the end of the main Sailing season, twin annual showdowns between various strands of the sport in Ireland are set to take place in Dun Laoghaire and Lough Ree over the next two weekends.

One of the country’s oldest education publishers is to revisit a series of school books, after young students in a Dublin national school highlighted gender and race inequality.

IN his letter (August 13), Emmet Dunphy calls for mass demonstrations against Russian intervention in Georgia and accuses the anti-war movement of being anti-American.

All evidence has now been heard in the trial of five anti-war protesters accused of criminally damaging a US airplane at Shannon Airport.

Seven people have staged a protest inside the UN headquarters demanding an end to sanctions against Iraq.