THE 30th anniversary of the British Army’s killing of 11-year-old schoolboy Stephen McConomy with a plastic bullet is marked in Derry with a call for the PSNI to scrap the new AEP plastic bullet. Free article

EXPANDING community childcare through the Community Employment programme could deliver the quality and affordable service everyone needs, the SIPTU Community Campaign says. Free article

Three of Ireland’s largest trade unions are urging their members to vote NO and reject the EU Austerity Treaty on May 31 Free article

F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone compared to ‘sports mercenaries in apartheid South Africa’ Free article

A MILLION French citizens vote in their country’s Presidential elections – why can’t can’t all the citizens of Ireland vote for the President of Ireland, asks Gerry Adams Free article

Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll shows Fine Gael and Labour support fall but Sinn Féin up 6 to 21% and second only to Fine Gael Free article

A NEW POLL shows that it’s all to play for in the referendum on the EU Austerity Treaty on May 31st with 4 out of 10 voters still to make their minds up Free article

THE Celtic Media Festival has been opened in Derry by RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan. Free article

THE luxurious Humewood Castle estate in County Wicklow – which sold for €25million in 2006 but can be yours now at a knockdown recession rate of just €8million – only has to pay the same €100 household charge as an average Irish home.

The castle itself boasts 38,000 sq ft of accommodation –  the equivalent of 25 average Irish households – and includes:-

• 15 en-suite bedrooms;
• A... Free article