I TAKE issue with Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte on the question of the €700m recently paid to speculators who bought unguaranteed bonds at knock down prices and made a killing when the government paid the full face value of the bonds.

Three men caught with cocaine and heroin valued at €1.4m in a garda drugs operation have been jailed for three and eight-year terms by Judge Katherine Delahunt for sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.