INDEPENDENT TD Jackie Healy-Rae has refused to rule out dropping his support for the Government unless his concerns on the growing pupil-teacher ratio in south Kerry schools are addressed by Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe next week.

FISHERMEN working the Irish coast face a deadly balancing act between making a living from the sea and battling some of the most treacherous weather conditions in northern Europe.

No-one will ever know what caused a trawler to sink off the Connemara coast in severe weather last September claiming the lives of four fishermen, a report said today.

A fourth body has been recovered following a fishing tragedy off county Galway.

WHAT do you do when you have done it all to your house and the only thing to do is wait for the grass to grow so you can cut it once more?