The low-budget 1930s film serial, Flash Gordon, with its arch villain, Ming the Merciless, ruler of Mongo, is far more interesting than the ersatz Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, of Castlerea, County Roscommon.

A SURVEY conducted at Cork Institute of Technology has revealed that half the staff have smoked cannabis and 70% want it legalised.

A man has been arrested in connection with the posting of a substance believed to be cannabis to every TD and Senator at Leinster House.