The son of the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Deputy John McGuinness looks set to top the poll in his electoral area.

THE heartbroken father of a stabbing victim told mourners at his son’s funeral yesterday that God had chosen the timing of his death.

IRELAND first acceded to a request from the United Nation’s Security Council to send UN Monitoring Officers to Lebanon in 1955 and since that time the respect of the international community for the Irish method of peacekeeping has been unanimous.