Health, transport and childcare will dominate the agenda this weekend as 600 Progressive Democrats delegates gather in Cork for their annual conference.

THE Taoiseach and Tánaiste yesterday played down suggestions of a roll back on the Government's decentralisation plans.

RESIDENTS of Lucan could be forgiven for feeling an overpowering envy this week as Dubliners, and particular those living on the southside of the city, went into raptures at the arrival of Luas.

I WAS shocked by the news that 130 jobs are to be axed from Clondalkin by the decentralisation of the Irish Prison Service headquarters.

BRIAN COWEN struck a blow in the FF-PD propaganda war against Tom Parlon yesterday by getting in first to claim credit for new schools coming to 'Parlon Country'.