A PLANNING application has been submitted to Meath County Council for a construction and demolition waste recycling plant to be built at the base of the Hill of Tara.

IN the early years of the last century considerable damage was inflicted on the Rath of the Synods on the Hill of Tara by the British Israelites who believed lost tribesmen of Israel had settled in Ireland and had buried the Ark of the Covenant on the hill.

US hostage Thomas Hamill was recovered by US forces south of Tikrit in Iraq today after he apparently escaped from captors who had been holding him since an attack on a convoy on April 9, the US military said.

REDUNDANT after 34 years, Al Cayton found himself at retirement age without the means to support himself.