BERTIE AHERN’S popularity in his own constituency has been unaffected by the controversies of the past ten day, a new opinion poll has shown.

An information campaign for people living in flood-prone areas should be launched before the weekend’s high tides, it was claimed tonight.

THE planning enforcement officer at Roscommon County who opened the letter that arrived on her desk in mid November must have experienced, at the very least, a mild frisson of surprise.