In a further blow to Fianna Fáil, the party's first preference votes would plunge to 19% – down a third from from 2007 – in Donegal South West if a General Election was called, according to a Red C survey.

The story of the controversial Corrib Gas project told through the eyes of locals is expected to reach a world audience thanks to a groundbreaking new documentary.

HOPES have been raised for the imminent release of Irish student Patrick Devine, arrested for allegedly “mooning” in Senegal nearly three weeks ago.

A senior member of the state Gaeltacht agency tonight urged the Government not to relax the Irish-language requirement for joining the Garda.

A ROW erupted between an anti-abortion group and a powerful Oireachtas Committee yesterday amid allegations that almost 9,000 of the group’s submissions had been destroyed.