Morning Ireland

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Future of PDs in question

PD Cllr Michael Maher says the party's Galway West TD Noel Grealish needs to clarify his position and let everyone know if he intends to move to FF

Man quizzed over baby's death in NI

Michael Fisher reports that the PSNI is investigating the murder of a three-month-old baby boy

Blocked roads hamper relief effort in Haiti

Reed Lindsay of Global Radio News says people's lives have been devastated as their homes and possessions have been destroyed

Govt may rethink restrictions on supersized stores

Damien O'Reilly, lecturer in retail management at DIT, says the current cap on retail size increases competition for consumers

New plant in Germany to capture its own emissions

Nick Mabey of E3G in London says no more coal power stations should be built in case the plan to safely store emissions does not work

US govt takes over mortgage companies

Alan Ahearne, economics lecturer at NUI Galway, says a bankruptcy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have impacted investors around the world

BATU members picket their own building

Ingrid Miley, Industry & Employment Correspondent, says the Building and Allied Trade Union members are in dispute with each other

Harvest losses could go above €70m

Padraig Walshe, Irish Farmers' Association president, says the weather has hurt the crops and hampered the harvest, particularly cereals

Ballina residents object to Traveller neighbours

Cian McCormack reports that people living in a private housing estate in Co Tipperary are protesting the local council's decision to house a Traveller family