Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has vowed to press ahead with a planned Irish referendum on the proposed EU Constitution, despite France's rejection of the document.

Irish MEP Rosemary 'Dana' Scallan has claimed that young people will be discouraged from entering farming if the Government fails to address its current dispute with the Irish Farmers Association.

Independent Irish MEP Rosemary 'Dana' Scallan has called on the Irish people to resist EU plans to devise a common European constitution.