A statue is to be erected in Killarney commemorating Second World War hero Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who risked his life to save over 6,500 Jewish people and British POWs from the Nazis in German-occupied Rome.

THE late Sean Moylan, War of Independence leader and former cabinet minister, would not have been in any sense daunted by the challenge of shaving€4 billion off spending.

THE political vision that Seán Moylan shared with other outstanding figures of his time, such as Seán Lemass, laid the foundations for the remarkable transformation in the country’s economic fortunes that occurred from the 1960s onwards, Justice Minister Brian Lenihan said yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday tried to reassure the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that the constitutional question has been settled in the Good Friday Agreement.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern disclosed yesterday that European Commission negotiators have been pulled back from exceeding the agriculture mandate they had been given by member states for the world trade talks.