LEADER will open for grant applications after selection of local action groups to deliver the aid programme has been completed — probably in late October.

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.

THE Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Eamon Ó Cuiv, is to make regulations under the Official Languages Act 2003 for bilingual oral announcements, advertising and signage of pubic bodies.