Two men staging a sit-in in a tower crane at the site of a Dublin community college in have said they are prepared to remain there and go on hunger strike until they are paid the money they claim is owed to them.

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Garret FitzGerald used Ireland’s long history of emigration to gain an advantage over Margaret Thatcher during often tense negotiations over the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, his son has revealed.

TWO men charged with damaging the door of a house in Ennis had gone there to sort out a matter under boxing rules laid down in 1869, a court was told yesterday.

Taxpayers will end up with a stake of no more than 36% in Bank Of Ireland under plans announced by the company this morning to raise €3.4bn in capital and avoid nationalisation.