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The Government is to allocate €8 million to fund overseas research into agricultural development and to projects tackling child undernutrition, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore announced today.
- 'You're Fired': TV3 axes The Apprentice
- Film, TV festival gets underway
- Key Eircom hearing set for tomorrow
- Gallagher 'gobsmacked' by RTÉ response to complaint
- Noonan meets European Investment Bank
- O'Reilly partner settles privacy action
- Rumour of collusion 'played down'
- Luas services resume after fire
- SF calls for €13bn jobs package
- Man guilty of killing girlfriend's baby
- Bat experts meeting in Dublin
- RSF calls for treaty No vote
- Occupy Frankfurt camp cleared
Police in Frankfurt cleared hundreds of protesters who set up camp outside the European Central Bank in October as they prepare for as many as 30,000 anti-capitalist activists to besiege Germany's banking capital for four days of rallies.
- Masseur drops Travolta allegation
One of the two male masseurs who accused actor John Travolta of sexual assault dropped his $2 million lawsuit (€1.57 million) yesterday as the lawyer for a second man said his case would go ahead.
- UN to collect Syrian monitors
The United Nations aims to collect a monitoring team from the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun today, the head of the monitoring mission said, after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack near their convoy.
- Liberia's Taylor to address court
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will today tell judges he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war and reject the prosecution's demand for an 80-year sentence in a maximum-security British jail.
- Talks on Greek caretaker cabinet
Greek political leaders are meeting today to form a caretaker government that will lead the country into its second election in just over a month.
- Cove reports new gas find
- Judgment reserved in Quinn case
- Greek bond U-turn infuriates creditors
- Government debt at record level
- Facebook increases IPO price range
- EU edges closer to bank capital deal
- Germany helps stave off euro zone dip
- Stocks fall as Greek crisis rumbles on
- Mild weather hits DCC profits
- TVC portfolio rises in value
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- Scotland name Visser in summer squad
Rugby:Dutch-born Edinburgh wing Tim Visser is one of five uncapped players included in Scotland’s summer tour squad to Australia. Fiji and Samoa.
- Taylor thrilled with Olympic berth
Boxing:Katie Taylor has described her qualification for the London Olympic Games as a “dream come true” after making the semi-finals of the AIBA World Women’s Championships in China without having to throw a punch.
The week in pictures - 11 May 2012A selection of some of the most striking images from the last seven days
2012 Greek ElectionsGreek Elections 2012
Vladimir Putin’s inauguration ceremonyVladimir Putin has been inaugurated as president of Russia in a ceremony in the capital, Moscow.
