MEAT factories have been urged to start paying “a decent price” to farmers for Irish beef following the European Commission decision to impose a total ban on Brazilian imports from today.

THE Government has requested the Brazilian embassy to ask a countryman who failed to show at the inquest of the 14-year-old girl he raped to return to Ireland voluntarily for questioning.

BRAZIL’S ambassador to Ireland yesterday claimed the Government and gardaí were aware of a plan to repatriate a Brazilian prior to his appearance at the inquest of a 14-year-old Irish girl he had raped.

MICHAEL COLLINS would have been “disgusted” at the manner in which the Garda Síochána’s reputation has been sullied by the criminal behaviour of certain gardaí in Donegal, Fine Gael Senator and MEP Jim Higgins said yesterday.

THE Irish priest who caused havoc at the Olympic Games is determined to disrupt more international events, according to his family in Kerry.