The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz has welcomed the outcome of the Fiscal Treaty referendum here.

Ireland’s backing for Europe’s fiscal pact eased stress levels in Brussels today, with eurocrats welcoming a glimmer of good news in the midst of gathering economic gloom.

When Pat Gallagher was pulled out of a job in an amusement park to become the San Francisco Giants marketing director by the club’s owner, Bob Lurie, he was faced with an almost impossible task — selling tickets to one of the worst baseball franchises in the US in one of the oldest and coldest stadiums.

It’s not a stretch to suggest that sports marketing absorbs much of what makes sport so intriguing.

The parents of a schoolboy killed when he triggered an IRA bomb in Derry in 1973 believe Martin McGuinness knows who was involved.

The High Court will rule today on a Sinn Féin lawsuit to try to force the Government to hold the long-awaited by-election in Donegal South West.

Up to 250 jobs were axed today as both a global healthcare firm and brewer culled staff numbers.

Some 200 jobs are to go at Baxter Healthcare in Co Mayo.

The Irish Naturist Association has called for some of the beaches around the Irish coast to be designated nudist.

SOME might call it bare-faced cheek, but two of Ireland’s most spectacular beaches feature in a US guide to the Top 100 Places to Get Naked.

PEOPLE must always refuse lifts from drink-drivers because they may never get home, a Government minister warned yesterday.

Aer Lingus is marking 70 years in service this week.

THE bitter dispute between SIPTU and Irish Ferries looks set to intensify dramatically today as another union prepares to enter the fray and the company threatens further lay-offs.

John Dunlop’s improving three-year-old Let The Lion Roar could put his Vodafone Derby credentials on the line at Lingfield Park on Saturday.

A WASTE crisis is looming in Co Westmeath unless an extra half million tonnes of rubbish can be dumped at a landfill outside Athlone.

A town previously ranked among the most littered in Ireland was today declared the cleanest in the country.

It remains unclear this afternoon exactly why two Government Ministers from Donegal plan to meet the Justice Minister on Tuesday to discuss the Morris Tribunal.

Frank McBrearty Jnr says two Donegal Ministers and a Fianna Fail TD have indicated they are to contact Minister for Justice Michael McDowell regarding the Morris Tribunal into allegations of Garda misconduct in Donegal.