THE EU have pledged €260 million in aid to Turkish Cypriots who saw their chance membership of the bloc evaporate when Greek Cypriots rejected reunification.

The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell has called an emergency meeting after Taoiseach Minister Bertie Ahern described the gangland situation in Limerick as "totally unacceptable in any civil society".

An improvement in the weather tonight may have prevented the country's latest abortion referendum recording one of the lowest-ever turnouts of voters for a nationwide constitutional poll.