Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said there is great scope for cross-border cooperation on a range of projects as he arrived at today's North-South council meeting.

Ministers from newly-formed governments in Dublin and Belfast will today meet for landmark talks in Armagh City.

Ireland needs to work with the rest of Europe to combat the menace of terrorism, the Taoiseach said today.

Plans to turn Ireland’s extensive towpath network into a massive tourism money spinner will be discussed at a conference today.

PLANS for a landmark monument to be sited near the Border to commemorate the Northern Ireland peace process have been announced by Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

An international design competition is to be launched for a landmark monument to peace, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern revealed today.

If accepted, the new financial package for the North announced today is to fund biggest-ever cross-border project to date - a major motorway to Donegal and Derry.

The Government is hoping to create five new cross-border funds to boost the North's economy if devolution is restored, Minister for Finance Brian Cowen revealed today.

A three-year-old girl has drowned after she fell into the disused Ulster Canal near Monaghan town yesterday afternoon.

Sinn Féin has called on the Irish and British governments to provide funding for the proposed reopening of a cross-border section of the Ulster Canal.

CROSS-BORDER bodies have been the hidden success story of the troubled Good Friday Agreement.