EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) policymakers underscored the case for an April rate hike yesterday as Portugal’s political crisis raised the prospect of another spell of reluctant ECB bond market intervention.

A former Labour Party Senator today claimed gardai in Donegal policed under a biased political agenda.

A former Senator today claimed gardaí were biased in policing pubs in Co Donegal.

BUSINESSMEN hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Féin councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed yesterday.

Celtic swept Rangers away with an emphatic second-half performance to record their first Ibrox success in seven years.