Gardaí at Pearse Street in Dublin are appealing for information after a mugging in the early hours of Thursday morning.

GROUPS representing older people are to converge at two major gatherings next week to voice their outrage at the decision to means-test the over 70s medical card.

ON the RTÉ television programme, Urban Tales, a few weeks ago, presenter Robert Vance made a connection between the German aerial bombing of Belfast and later Dublin in 1941.

In advance of the Ireland/England match on February 27, inspectors from the Office of Consumer Affairs carried out a survey last week of 19 licensed premises near Lansdowne Road to establish the prices displayed in the bar areas, in respect of nine different drinks.