The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has named his 11 nominees for the Seanad this lunchtime.

UP TO 150 tonnes of toxic human excrement dumped in Wexford by Dublin County Council last month contained 29 times the legal level of human coliforms, a local councillor has claimed.

FIANNA FÁIL members should not ignore the houses of “blueshirts” or “provos” when canvassing for votes, Junior Minister Brendan Smith told delegates.

THE only female election candidate in Wexford has called the editor of a local newspaper a “chauvinistic pig” on a radio station because of an article she claims is sexist.

ELECTION hopeful and children’s rights campaigner, Colm O’Gorman, has failed to make an impact in Wexford according to the findings of a new opinion poll.

A former Government junior minister who last year circulated bogus election letters from the Taoiseach, aims to run for Fianna Fáil in the next general election.

Fianna Fáil TD Tony Dempsey denied today that he was retiring from politics because he feared losing his seat at the next general election.