Brian Gregan recognised yesterday he has now become the leading athlete for Team Ireland at the European Team Championships this weekend after the national squad was rocked by a series of withdrawals.

FORMER Fine Gael TD Liam Cosgrave has begun an appeal aimed at halting his criminal trial in connection with alleged corrupt payments concerning land rezonings in Co Dublin.

AN alternative taxation strategy to the Government’s cutback agenda was outlined yesterday in Dublin by the Community Platform campaign group.

The daughter of the man who secured the right of Irish people to vote on EU treaties today urged the electorate to reject the latest reform package.

FORMER Green party councillor Chris O’Leary has labelled his ex-colleague Dan Boyle a “hypocrite” who is mimicking the views of former members of the Government party to save himself from European election disaster.

A CALL will today be made for the upcoming national pay talks to address the inequality in pay and pensions experienced by women in the workforce.

FORMER property developer Tom Gilmartin told the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday how lawyers had difficulty “getting their heads round” his allegations of corruption in the planning process.

TWO years ago Charlie McCreevy challenged the GPA to indulge in some lateral thinking if they ever hoped to see inter-county GAA players benefit from tax exemptions for sports people and yesterday Dessie Farrell and his association answered him in spades.