LEFT Valentine’s Day a little late this year?

THE worst flooding in two decades has destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses and devastated thousands of acres of farmland throughout the country, mostly in the south and west.

SOME 5,000 jobs could be created in the rural economy if the Government converted 25% of public buildings to biomass heating systems.

A Lithuanian man has died four days after a car accident, gardaí said today.

FINE Gael had to “relearn the whole science of politics” after its disastrous general election performance of 2002, its director of elections has admitted.

THE land area under organic production increased by 15% last year, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan has disclosed.

A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

A professional motor assessor has told the Ir£151,000 fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a Rover car he examined was never involved in a traffic accident.