France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, president Nicolas Sarkozy said.

Against the backdrop of a declared ‘war’ on Islam and Muslim immigration by Norwegian Christian nationalist Anders Behring Breivik, Cormac O’Keeffe looks at the Muslim community in Ireland and examines issues of identity, integration, extremism and discrimination

A CONTROVERSIAL and highly influential Muslim religious leader, banned from Britain and US, is holding a five-day conference in Ireland with top Muslim clerics from here and abroad.

DETAILS have been made public about proposals to build 30 primary schools across the country.