Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has been re-elected by a landslide.

Palatine reached the Carlow SFC final after an 0-15 to 0-10 win over a fancied Rathvilly at Dr Cullen Park on Saturday and O’Hanrahan’s emerged 4-13 to 1-12 winners over Tinryland in a replayed quarter-final tie which required extra-time.

Like your correspondent, Paul Farrell, I too mourn the demise of Rachel Corrie.

I refer to Mr Paul Farrell’s recent letter on the recent findings of the Israeli court.

Paul Farrell (Letters, Sept 1) writes in praise of the late Rachel Corrie and calls the Israeli court’s verdict on her death ‘absurd but unsurprising’.

On Tuesday last, Rachel Corrie’s family sat in an Israeli civil court to hear it deliver an absurd but unsurprising verdict on Israel’s own army. Rachel’s name is linked with peaceful courage: especially her own, but also that of a group of Irish people.

There’s something sick about any Irish Government going to Europe to plead and bargain, just to get a little bit of a delay in the payment of a just a portion of what the Irish people are being forced to pay of other people’s losses and still other people’s debts.

DURING his so-called address to the nation, Enda Kenny said: “To make sure we keep as many jobs as we can, to make sure you get to bring home as much as you can, and to make sure you know where you stand with your wages.

RACHEL Corrie was 10 years old in 1990 when she made this speech: “I’m here for other children. I’m here because I care. I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger.

A rural village was plunged into sadness today following deaths of two men at a grain factory.

Famous faces from the world of football were joined by ordinary fans to say farewell to Celtic legend Tommy Burns at his funeral today.

Over 6,000 companies were struck off in the first eight months of this year, according to new figures released today.

MOBILE phone companies are finally going to war, with O2 leading the charge on new cut-price offers to business customers.

THE Companies Registration Office (CRO) has taken in €14.1 million in fines from firms failing to file their annual accounts on time.

IRISH bosses in small and medium sized enterprises are working long hours, taking work home in the evenings and at weekends and missing important family events due to business demands, a new survey shows.

The trial of a 21-year-old man accused of murder has heard there were flies coming from the deceased’s nose after he was found up to 24 hours after his death in a disused building.

An expert group is to be set up to look into ways of winning the war against workplace bullies, the Government said today.

Director of corporate enforcement Paul Appleby, and registrar of companies Paul Farrell last week jointly launched a new book authored by the corporate compliance group of Mason Hayes & Curran entitled Jordans Irish Company Secretarial Precedents.

THE Companies Registration Office (CRO) has launched a crackdown on companies that repeatedly fail to file their annual accounts on time.

THE head of the Companies Registration Office said firms that fail to file their accounts promptly will be struck off or face more serious consequences.

MANAGERS are working longer hours than their employees, according to a new workplace lifestyle survey.

A survey commissioned by mobile provider O2 Ireland, has said owner managers in Irish small and medium businesses work longer hours than the average employee, and many often work weekends and miss out on annual leave.

BRAVING the freezing rain to soak up some free sun are a hardy bunch of bargain-hunters whose main problem just now is keeping their feet warm.

TWO former Christian Brothers falsely accused of sexually abusing boys in their care spoke yesterday of the torment the allegations had caused them.

The Companies Registration Office (CRO) has issued strike-off warning notices to 12,500 companies that failed to file annual returns for 2001 and previous years.

A HOMELESS youth was charged yesterday in relation to the killing of a middle-aged man in Dublin last week.

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Paul Farrell last week.

A man found dead in a derelict building in Dublin died from multiple head injuries, a post mortem has revealed.

A MURDER investigation was launched last night after a post mortem revealed an inner city Dublin man, whose body was found on Thursday, died from multiple injuries.

IBM Ireland have announced the appointment of three new partners to the IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS) division in Ireland.