Garda management is to be questioned over the sudden resignation of Garda whistle- blower John Barrett from a key ethics committee at the Public Accounts committee today. 

The fight against terrorism can never justify secret and illegal mass surveillance, the European Parliament has said, demanding that a range of agreements with the US be scrapped or put on hold.

A Garda whistle-blower has called for an independent inquiry into the non-serving of court summonses by gardaí after figures showed that almost 650,000 summonses were not served on alleged offenders over the past four years.

A man who set sail from South Carolina two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat 320km off the coast of North Carolina.

Political parties will begin final whistle-stop tours of marginal constituencies today in a bid to muster extra votes ahead of polling on Thursday.

WHEN the final whistle blew, Germany’s Carsten Ramelow was as frustrated as he had been helpless when the watched Robbie Keane slip past him for Ireland’s injury time winner.