A man whose DNA was found on a grenade which was thrown at a house containing four elderly people has been jailed for three and a half years.

While Michael Noonan, the finance minister, was getting plaudits from EU peers in the ungainly pink granite building off Schuman, down the road the true cost of Ireland’s austerity measures was being spelled out to MEPs by Michael McCabe of Independent Living.

“Going back into the dark.”

Government policy in relation to disability issues must prioritise supports for independent living, according to the Centre for Independent Living (CIL).

A THIRD solicitor could soon become the subject of a significant Garda fraud investigation after the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal ruled that another Dublin-based member of the legal profession had misappropriated clients’ funds totalling more than €830,000.

IRISH and African experts will examine development issues and the AIDS crisis in Africa as part of a major conference in Cork which starts today.

BRINDLEY Advertising, which holds the lucrative Government print advertising account, has been sold to a British firm in a deal worth up to €12 million.

BRINDLEY advertising, one of the oldest and biggest agencies the state, saw its turnover fall by 23% in 2003 because of a cutback in Government spending in recruitment ads.

THE names of the 17 victims of Ireland’s worst inland drowning have been engraved in stone for the first time in the 126 years since they lost their lives.