A petition with over 5,000 signatures has been delivered to the owners of Connolly Shoes in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin - in solidarity with four workers who lost their jobs.

TRIBUTES from far and wide have been paid to the much-loved singer and entertainer Ronnie Drew who has died following a long illness.

Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy today received a prestigious award to celebrate a lifetime of literary achievement.

Two Dublin men pleaded guilty to firearms offences at the Special Criminal Court today.

COMMENTATORS need to be careful when talking about the Irish economy, which is continuing to grow at a faster rate than most other European countries, Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin warned yesterday.

A TRAVELLING biodiversity exhibition will take to the country’s roads over the next five months educating the public on Ireland’s natural beauty.

A major travelling biodiversity exhibition will take to the country’s roads over the next five months educating the public on Ireland’s natural beauty.

The jury in the inquest into the death of a baby girl - found in a plastic bag in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973 - has failed to return a unanimous verdict.

The inquest into the death of a new born baby girl, found dead in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973, will resume for a third day today.

A woman claiming to be the mother of a baby girl discovered stabbed to death over 30 years ago today criticised the Gardaí after the inquest was further delayed.

The former partner of a Kenyan man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal has claimed he raped her on an almost daily basis and she feared he might kill her.

The fifth Eurotoques food forum and fair will take place at Brooklodge, Macreddin, Co Wicklow on Sunday, September 3, 2006.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell insisted yesterday that exhuming the body of a baby girl from a communal grave in Dublin 33 years after her death would have had huge implications for other parents.

An inquest into the death of a baby girl found stabbed in a lane in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973 will today hear from gardaí on the progress of the investigation.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is considering whether charges should be brought over the death of a man whose family blame his fall from a balcony on magic mushrooms.

The inquest into the death of a baby girl discovered stabbed in a lane in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin in 1973 is due to resume today.

THE failure of gardaí to act for 10 years on information regarding the possible location of a dead baby was yesterday described as “incomprehensible”.

LARGE numbers of Irish families continued to wait anxiously last night for news of loved ones in regions affected by Sunday's tsunamis.

BIG-HEARTED Irish Examiner readers have dug deep once again to help support the work of GOAL in bringing relief to Darfur in western Sudan.

THE State investigation into vaccine trials is under threat after a retired microbiologist successfully challenged an order to give evidence of his involvement.

RESTAURANT owners are struggling to survive as spiralling wage, tax and insurance costs endanger the industry, it was claimed yesterday.

Final manoeuvring by political parties ahead of the general election was nearing completion in Dublin today.