ALL-ROUND star Geraldine McLaughlin bagged a brace yesterday at Tolka Park to secure a first Umbro FAIS Senior Girls title for Loreto Secondary School since 1991.

IT may come as a shock to ordinary taxpayers that the state is supporting couples and cash-broke developers with multiple properties, but the reality is many people doubled-up on house purchases and investments in the boom.

PROPERTY-rich millionaires in need of financial help and even money for food are seeking assistance at state-funded debt service centres.

A 61-year-old Mayo farmer has been sentenced to six years for the manslaughter of a Traveller father of 11 in October 2004.