Brian Cowen News

Union chiefs have warned of chaos and further industrial action if the Government forges ahead with public sector pay cuts in the forthcoming Budget.

The Government tonight vowed to press ahead with 1.3bn public sector pay cuts after talks with unions on alternatives dramatically collapsed.

Brian's getting jumpy in London and I don't blame him. Mark Hennessey's line London report of the meeting between Brian Cowen and Gordon Brown makes me wonder just how thoroughly the mainstream media have done their homework on the one issue that's apparently holding things up .

As many as 80,000 'green' jobs could be created over the next decade in Ireland, the Government has claimed.

I popped into my friend's house to see how the Springbok/Ireland match was going.

Brian Cowen has defended the Vatican's refusal to deal directly with an investigation into paedophile priests in the Dublin diocese that has shocked the country.

McDaid said that in the past he had abstained and been absent from some votes. Cowen's majority has already shrunk to a precarious level after by-election defeats in June and after two Fianna Fail MPs resigned the party whip in August in opposition to hospital cuts.

Brian Cowen and Gordon Brown will be reviewing progress in the implementation of the outstanding aspects of the St.

A reading expressing distress at clerical child abuse in Dublin is being read at masses in Down and Connor, Northern Ireland's largest diocese.

THE Taoiseach was confronted by angry flood victims yesterday, but would not be drawn on extra relief funds.

Off-duty police officers join picket lines protesting against expected pay and service cuts in forthcoming budget More than a quarter of a million public servants, including police officers, staged a general strike in Ireland today to protest against forthcoming cuts in jobs and services.

The Government has today announced a 10m fund to assist people suffering extreme hardship as a result of flooding.

The Government today cleared for publication an investigation exposing sickening child sex abuse by Catholic priests in the Dublin Archdiocese.

Macedonia's prime minister visits Dublin. Also in diplomatic news: Croatian President Stipe Mesic makes a farewell visit to BiH and FBI head Robert Mueller met with Turkish officials in Ankara.

Much of Ireland's public sector stood idle on Tuesday as nurses, teachers, firefighters and other employees protested against government plans to cut pay and reduce the large budget deficit.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he supports the Football Association of Ireland's appeal for a replay of Ireland's World Cup play-off against France.

Ireland is tonight bracing itself for more heavy rains as flood relief workers called off a planned strike to deal with the devastation wreaked on parts of the country.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to residents at a rescue centre in Cockermouth, northern England, yesterday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds in the heaviest rainfall on record in England.

More than 100 people were evacuated from their homes because of some of the worst flooding for years in Ireland.

More than 100 Irish troops have been drafted in to support the emergency services in battling Ireland's worst floods in 30 years.