The Government is launching an action plan for jobs for the Mid-East region this morning.

Virtually every house in Ireland now has a computer, with well over half of the population using the internet every day.

A gap of almost €7,000 separates average yearly income in the richest and poorest parts of the country, CSO figures show.

War is hell, as is this minimalistic French drama a farmer shipped off to fight a war in an unspecified Mid-East country.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair said last night new international talks offered the chance to forge a "sense of hope" into a Middle East peace deal.

Preliminary figures for October-December 2003 indicate that the average price paid per hectare (ha) of agricultural land was €14,144 (€5,724 per acre) in the last quarter of 2003, subject to revision.

THE number of people signing on fell last month ending a six-month rise in unemployment.

The British Government has announced that it will keep many of its ships and troops on standby in the Middle East for participation in the US-British war against Afghanistan.