The president of the European Commission threw his hat into the ring for a second term in office today – and national government lobbying for top jobs in his new team has already begun.

A 17-YEAR-OLD student from Tory island off Donegal won a prize in an EU-wide translation competition.

MINISTERS have spoken in Irish 22 times at EU meetings since the language became an official one last January, while MEPs have used it about twice as often.