The country’s seafood industry will have much to celebrate and many challenges to ponder in Galway this coming weekend when Bord Iascaigh Mhara holds its second maritime festival.

The Government should launch emergency radioactivity tests at all the sites visited by former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the Green Party said today.

West Wing actor Martin Sheen today officially became a student again when he registered for an arts degree at a university in the west of Ireland.