ICELAND is warning Ireland and Greece not to copy its recovery model, even though the Atlantic island managed a return to international debt markets less than three years after letting its banks default on $85 billion (€58bn).

IT’S a long way from Motootua on the Pacific island of Samoa, to Galway on this Atlantic island of ours.

Emergency crews in Madeira were searching today for 32 people still missing amid fears that flash floods and landslides may have claimed more than 70 lives on the Portuguese holiday island.

THE Taoiseach was quoted recently as saying to the Polish prime minister that the fatal attack on the two young Polish men in Dublin was basically a rare occurrence.

France’s Euro 2008 Group B qualifier against the Faroe Islands scheduled for this afternoon appears to be in jeopardy due to ongoing bad weather.

The Bermudan government warned today that Hurricane Fabian could be the worst to hit the British territory for 15 years.