Weekend DART services during April & May have been suspended from Howth to Howth Junction to allow for the upgrade of the overhead lines. This is on top of an expected 9 months of weekend closures from June

The FCC received hundreds of complaints about the Golden Globes broadcast after Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said, “This is really, really, f—— brilliant.”The enforcement bureau said last October that Bono’s comment was not indecent or obscene because he did not use the word to describe a sexual act. “The…

IT MUST BE TRUE About 55 million newspapers are being sold in the United States each day, an 11-percent drop since 1990, according to the report. The decline is attributed to falling interest among Americans as well as to the public’s diminishing trust in the wake of highly publicized scandals like last year’s admission by…

well paddy’s day is over, and I survived it alcohol free! a much needed realignment of my satellite dish was needed, with winds of 70MPH due friday (perhaps gusts and perhaps its saturday) it will get an early test, oh to be able to have my 1M dish at ground level, alas it must swing…

RTÉ is pleased to announce an extension of their radio services, with effect from March 17, 2004, St. Patrick’s Day. From then, RTÉ Radio 1 will be available throughout the island of Ireland, in Britain and parts of Europe on Long Wave 252. —this is a welcome move, 14 years after giving the freq. away…

Centre left socialist govt. elected in Spain. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will lead his party into coalition Govt. in about a month time. The Socialist leader’s election victory was attributed in large part to a voter backlash against the government over Iraq. Many Spaniards blame Thursday’s train bombings which killed 200 people and have drawn…

Spain said it had arrested five people on Saturday, some possibly linked to Moroccan militants, adding weight to speculation that the hand of al Qaeda may be behind train bombs that killed 200 people. al Qaeda claim the bombings were thiers in a video recording released tonight. »Earlier the death toll had risen to 200.…

United Nations — Red-faced, the world body acknowledged yesterday that a flight recorder that may be linked to the crash that triggered the 1994 Rwandan genocide has turned up in a United Nations filing cabinet.—Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) is the most recent and widely reported symbol of “hate radio” throughout the world.…

::Tribunal Man::Gilmartin said Mr Flynn had told him a substantial donation to Fianna Fail would help smooth out his planning difficulties. But when he asked who to make the cheque out to, he said Mr Flynn told him just to leave it on the desk. It was put to him that Mr Flynn had claimed…