IN 2003, somewhere in the region of 100,000 people in Ireland, and many millions more around the world, marched in protest at what they saw as the violation by the United States of the sovereignty of an independent country.

THE pre-Christmas excitement surrounding Kilkenny on one of the year’s busiest shopping days was shattered in cruel and brutal fashion with the killing of local postmaster Alan Cunniffe, a single man in his 30s, seconds after an armed robbery yesterday afternoon.

A Kilkenny teenager reported missing this week has been found safe and well.

FRIDAY the 13th proved to be a lucky day for a budding scientist yesterday when 14-year-old Aisling Judge became the youngest winner of the BT Young Scientist of the Year.

Conor Keane, Business Correspondent