Several dozen protesters staged a demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin yesterday to express solidarity with the members of female punk band Pussy Riot who were jailed by a Moscow court last week.

Protestors at the Russian Embassy in Dublin this afternoon have asked the Government to lobby for a more lenient treatment of punk rock band Pussy Riot.

they tend to do when one of theirs has fallen, world leaders converged from near and far for the state funeral of Ronald Reagan who gently steered the Cold War towards a peaceful end.