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- US to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan06:16President says escalation is temporary and that US troops will start leaving by July 2011
- Talks on public pay to resume07:29Government set to modify €1.3 billion cuts plan in order to secure a deal with trade unions.
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- Australian climate bill rejected07:19Legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system defeated
- Funeral mass for heritage chief07:03Founding director of Limerick Civic Trust, Denis Leonard (62), died following short illness
- Hospital sees increase in eye condition after Knock 'visions'A GALWAY eye surgeon has described as “unprecedented” the rise in the number of cases of an eye condition which he says can be directly attributed to people staring at the sun during recent events at the Knock shrine.
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The stagnation at Stormont is quite depressing in light of high expectations

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Clarkey is sitting in a jacuzzi in an eight-star hotel in deepest Slovakia

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For the second time this year we’ve freed up our archive

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A couple of very distraught people with Budget Travel vouchers have been in touch

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My country refused to have a completely honest and transparent look at the past

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Complacency danger on HIVTHE RATE at which people are diagnosed with HIV more than doubled in Europe between 2000 and 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported yesterday. That long-term trend is also reflected in the continuing rise in infection rates in recent Irish experience – figures this week from Dublin’s St James’s Hospital record the highest number of new cases in a year on record, a 20 per cent increase in positive diagnoses.
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Well-wishers pray for the fast recover of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand December 1. Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej will appear in public on Saturday at Bangkok's Grand Palace on his 82nd birthday, but his traditional birthday eve address has been postponed indefinitely. Photo: Chaiwat Subprasom/REUTERS
The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk lands in the steppe near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan, December 1. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/REUTERS
A man feeds birds at Kandawgyi park in Yangon, Myanmar December 1. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS
Sale advertisements are displayed at a retail shop in Tokyo, Japan December 1. The Bank of Japan said on Tuesday it would introduce a new operation to provide funds for three months at a fixed interest rate of 0.1 percent, after it held an emergency policy meeting. Photo: Issei Kato/REUTERS
Members of French association 'AIDES' hang up a red ribbon on the Republic statue at Place de la Republique in Paris, France December 1, to show their support in the fight against AIDS on World AIDS Day. Photo: Charles Platiau/REUTERS
Workers install scaffolding at the construction site of a viaduct in Wuhan, Hubei province, China December 1. Photo: Stringer/REUTERS
University students hold red ribbons at a photo opportunity during an HIV/AIDS awareness rally on World AIDS day in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, December 1. Photo: Stringer/REUTERS
Displaced Afghan men queue to receive winter aid from the World Food Programme during a distribution for the needy in Kabul, Afghanistan December 1. Photo: Omar Sobhani/REUTERS
The coffin of Warrant Officer Class One Regimental Sergeant Major Darren Chant of the Genadier Guards is carried out of the Guards Chapel on the Wellington Barracks after his funeral, December 1,in London, England. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
A close up photograph shows figures from Antony Gormley's 'Amazonian Field, 1992' on display at the Royal Academy of Arts 'Earth: Art of a Changing World' exhibition on December 1, in London, England. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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My DecadeSARAH WEBB, Novelist: TEN YEARS ago, I was working full-time at Eason’s as the children’s book buyer and marketing manager, and living with my young son, Sam. But in 2000, my first novel, Three Times a Lady, was published. I’d already written three non-fiction children’s books, but this was my first attempt at a novel – I wrote three chapters and sent them to Poolbeg, who offered me a three-book deal.
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Blatter is a 'loose cannon' - BradyINTERNATIONAL SOCCER: A MATTER of hours yesterday before the organisation’s chief executive Jerome Valcke made it clear there is no chance of the Republic of Ireland team being allowed into the World Cup by way of a back door, Liam Brady labelled Sepp Blatter “a bit of a loose cannon and an embarrassment to Fifa”.
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Talks on public pay to resumeGovernment set to modify €1.3 billion cuts plan in order to secure a deal with trade unions.
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Salesmen, mechanics going soloAN INCREASING number of former employees from dealerships are setting up on their own, with insurance statistics pointing to a rise in the number of new motor trade policies being taken out by sole traders.
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