IN Derry, Jan 30, 1972, on what became known as Bloody Sunday, 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army.

THE Government is set to write off a bad debt of almost €46 million from a loan issued to a defunct mining company in the mid-1980s.

FINNISH metals group Outokumpu is to buy the Bula ore body next to its Tara zinc mine in for €35 million which will extend the lifetime of the mine.