Ireland

IRELAND HAS received a far higher share of immigrants from countries that joined the EU in 2004 than any other EU state.

FORMER EU commissioner Peter Sutherland has emerged as a candidate to chair the Government's forthcoming National Strategy on Higher Education.

THE INQUEST into the death of 14-year-old schoolboy Brian Rossiter yesterday heard how there was panic in Clonmel Garda station when he was found unconscious in a cell there on the morning of September 11th, 2002.

INVESTING IN early-childhood care and education can produce dramatic long-term benefits in children's lives such as better academic performance, lower crime levels and a more productive workforce, a conference heard yesterday.

FREE MAKEOVERS, discounts in many city centre shops and even a chance to see the new James Bond film at a reduced price await elderly citizens who venture into Dublin city centre on Monday, December 1st.

MEASURES TO encourage more students to do part of their study abroad are to be considered by the Higher Education Authority, a conference has been told.

EU FARM ministers meet today to negotiate changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap) amid growing expectations among Irish MEPs of a possible ?30 per ewe premium agreement.

IRELAND HAS succeeded in exempting the Celtic Sea region from a new EU proposal on cod recovery after Minister of State for Fisheries Tony Killeen labelled the plan "draconian".

HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS are routinely breaching rules that limit the extent of their private practice in public hospitals, according to a Dáil committee report into health service spending.

THE REPUBLIC faces gun ownership rates as high as the United States unless decisive action is taken to curb the "alarming" number of legally held handguns in circulation, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has said.