The Cabinet is set to discuss the stalled Cork event centre project when it meets in the city next week.

The Government is not involved in a political conspiracy to cover up advance knowledge of the axing of Heathrow slots at Shannon Airport, Tánaiste Brian Cowen told the Dáil.

WE'VE got into a mad sequence, have you noticed? Something goes wrong. Let's say it's a surgeon who whips out women's wombs. Hundreds of them. He gets nailed. Eventually. But a single nailing is never enough.

The Galway pub at the centre of the smoking row is to reinforce the ban.

The Turkish ambassador has thanked the Minister for Justice for the Government's handling of the tragic case of the 13 illegal immigrants found in a container in Co Wexford.