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

Irish Cement workers in Limerick and Meath are in their third week on strike for the company to honour a Labour Court recommendation on pay – the first strike at Irish Cement in 30 years Free article

THE Labour leadership outcry over the weekend clashes between protesers and the Garda in Galway distracted public attention from the shambles of Labour’s annual conference celebrating its 100th anniversary and still claiming the mantle of James Connolly Free article

View photos here from Easter Commemorations across the 32 counties. Free article

BUS ÉIREANN school bus cuts on the way for students in rural areas. Free article

ALL-IRELAND youth organisation SpunOut launches new ‘Find Help’ online tool to help young people access information on support services across Ireland. Free article

CONNOLLY HOSPITAL in west Dublin – one of the busiest medical centres in the country with an A&E that serves a population of over 330,000 people in Dublin and Meath – is suffering seriously from the Fine Gael/Labour Party Government’s health and austerity cuts, writes PAUL DONNELLY. Free article

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY students have backed a Sinn Féin college initiative and overturned a Students’ Union decision to put €10,000 into building a Labyrinth ‘quiet reflection area’. Free article

Belfast 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration – Address by Sinn Féin Party Chair Declan Kearney Free article

SEVEN MILLION EURO of taxpayers’ money will be handed over to two private toll road operators by the Fine Gael/Labour Government because there’s not as much traffic as they’d expected and despite the toll roads continuing to operate at a profit. Free article