The bodies were found in two cars near the Co Roscommon village.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28th, began much like any other day for Brendan Riordan, a 28-year-old real estate agent in New York.
THE LATE Garret FitzGerald was “a guide and mentor to this country”, former president Mary Robinson said at University College Dublin last night.
PARENTS FIGHTING proposed cuts in some of the most disadvantaged schools in the State would be “satisfied” late next week, a Government TD has said.
FORMER NEWSPAPER editor and political commentator John Cunningham has been described as a “colossus in Irish journalism” who made “only friends, not enemies”.
ANOTHER PAINTING of a girl tending a flock of geese – by the same artist who created one of the National Gallery of Ireland’s most popular exhibits – has turned up in the south Dublin suburb of Churchtown.
INDEPENDENT TD for North Tipperary Michael Lowry has lost his High Court attempt to secure summary disposal of a defamation case brought over comments by journalist Sam Smyth which, the TD claimed, wrongly meant he was a thief and a corrupt politician.
TRIBUTES were paid in the High Court yesterday to a retiring judge.
THERE IS a war being fought on a remote patch of bogland in Co Offaly.
Making protest pay, Irish styleIt’s said the Irish are half-hearted protesters, but, as Phil Hogan’s ‘cave-in’ on septic tanks showed this week, our protests can work when directed at the political system’s weak points
'Risk is gender blind'Assaults on several female journalists covering the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya last year reopened the debate on women working in war zones. Here, some female war reporters share their experiences
Free travel passesCan’t afford a break? Think again. From transatlantic yachting to US road trips to villa-minding in Tuscany, there are plenty of ways to holiday on the cheap
Made in MacraThe recession has seen an unexpected surge in membership of one of Ireland’s oldest rural organisations, Macra na Feirme, where members gather together to sing, dance and, if they’re lucky, meet their future partners
Syria: Truth is the first casualtyJournalists, foreign observers and Syrians themselves have become victims of a media war that rages alongside the real one
