IT Tralee 1-07 - DIT 3-17: A two-goal salvo just before half-time by wing-back Enda Flanagan from Cavan knocked the wind out of IT Tralee last night, as DIT marched on to the semi-finals of the Sigerson Cup.

Hundreds of migrants protested outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as EU asylum rules came close to collapse under the strain of unprecedented migration.

AFTER-TAX profits at IIB Bank grew by 10% to €137 million last year as lending growth cooled.

IIB Bank’s 30-year streak of growing profits continued in 2006 with earnings up by a quarter.

IIB Bank has recorded another rise in annual profits with earnings up 24% in 2003 to €71.7 million.