TOM FITZGERALD is a man with a van who feels he is being driven to break the law.

WASTE collection operators have called for an immediate stoppage to all works on the controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin after the Economic and Social Research Institute admitted its recentreport on waste management policy contained some errors.

DETAILS revealed today about the secretive 2002 deal agreed by the then Minister for Education and Science Dr Michael Woods with Catholic religious orders implicated in child abuse suggest that it is even more inequitable than was first imagined.

Gardaí and wildlife officials were today investigating whether two rare White Tailed Sea Eagles found dead in Kerry were poisoned.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight accused a public inquiry probing his personal finances of acting outside the Constitution.