FIVE men were being questioned last night following the latest Dublin shooting linked to a gangland feud, with gardaí on high alert in case the bloody criminal dispute escalates further.

Five men are being questioned today about the shooting of a man in west Dublin.

JUST as his fellow politicians eulogised Mr Ahern yesterday afternoon, in what was his last day in the Dáil as taoiseach the general secretary of the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association, Des Kavanagh claimed that the psychiatric sector “faces cutbacks unimagined since the 1980s” and that “people are dying because of... low investment in mental healthcare”.

The lack of proper information in relation to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is disconcerting in itself, but the official bungling is utterly frightening.