The Taoiseach has denied the Government was looking at a specific timeframe for the referendum on the European fiscal stability agreement.

THERE is a contrast between Europe and America but not a contradiction, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the joint houses of Congress yesterday.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was today urged to agree to an all-party Dáil motion endorsing the various reports which probed violent atrocities in the North.

Sinn Féin chief Martin McGuinness tonight urged IRA murder victim Robert McCartney’s sisters to stay out of party politics.