MIKE LISTON, the 47-year-old firefighter and father-of-four killed in yesterday’s horror road accident in Co Limerick, had lost a brother two years ago in another double fatality.

THE National Safety Council is disappointed its grim prediction that more people would be killed on the roads in 2004 than in 2003 has come true.

MUCH has been said about the Government’s financial intentions towards Lissadell House. However, very little has been written about why these ‘great’ houses were built and run as virtual ‘mini Englands’ in pre-independence and, indeed, post-independence Ireland.