Intelligence gathering at seaside town

THE seaside town of Dungarvan will play host to a major international intelligence conference in July which will feature a speech from a former US secretary of homeland security.

Tom Ridge, who is also the 43rd governor of Pennsylvania, will address the event organised by the American-based Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies.

That college has held advanced training courses for senior US FBI personnel since the September 2001 terror attacks.