BY-passitis is endemic throughout the country and one town sure to get a heart and lung improvement following the operation is Watergrasshill, in Co Cork.

A SOLICITOR acting for a Circuit Court judge who has been charged with possessing child pornography yesterday said he did not accept the validity of any acts taken in the case so far.

The parents of two young sisters who were killed in a horrific motorway crash on Britain's M25 early today also lost a son in a road accident eight years ago, it has emerged.

Construction at Leixlip on Intel's latest semi-conductor facility known as 'Fab 24' is to restart and will be ready for production in the first half of 2004. It will produce 300 mm wafers, using Intel's next generation 90-nanometer logic technology.