Green Party councillor Ciaran Cuffe is set to top the Dublin European constituency by a shock landslide after Fine Gael's Frances Fitzgerald suffered a surprise slump in the polls.

A stark warning will be delivered to Labour leader Eamon Gilmore in the coming days from a group of backbench TDs calling for a major shake-up of the party’s cabinet positions and a re-examination of its communications machine.

A company that printed ballot papers for the last European elections has been charged with corruption in England.

THE impact of impending job cuts at Yahoo upon workers at its Dublin European base remained unclear last night as the company did little to contradict speculation that hundreds if not thousands of jobs are to be lost worldwide.