Irish-backed international exploration company Fastnet Oil & Gas has been granted a number of licensing options in the Celtic Sea.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims will today ask Tony Blair to sanction a cross-border public inquiry into the Real IRA atrocity.

EVERYWHERE else in Ireland, yesterday was a grey, damp day but not in the vast Garryspillane hinterland, in the villages of Knocklong and Galbally, where many of the Limerick SHC- winning team were born and raised.