Dail EireannDESPITE creating a false impression that cuts are being made across the board in the Oireachtas, the annual salary for a TD still stands at a whopping €90,000 per annum. . .before expenses.

Mayo County Council has become an officially licenced publican - for a few days.
It follows an ad interim transfer of the seven-day licence attached to the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar, which the council recently bought with Castlebar Town Council.

The official opening of extensions to hospitals are rare occasions in these financially straitened times and are likely to remain so into the foreseeable future.
Swinford District Hospital, however, is an exception. An extension costing in the region of €3.4

We've have all heard about three men and a baby, but now it's time for three men on a bike.
Three brave, fit young men have thrown caution to the wind, saddling up, all on the one bike, to cycle through 17 counties in the name of charity.