The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed an Irish person has died in Colombia.

OPERATING on a large scale, and locating where milk is plentiful and can be purchased competitively from large scale farms, offers Glanbia the opportunity to be the lowest cost producer, and No 1 in its markets.

THREE fatalities over the Christmas holiday period brought the current 2005 road death toll to 394.

MOST of us can only dream of how half a million euro would change our lives but one Westmeath family has been taking such a bonanza in their stride over the past year.