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- NI leaders in London for talks12:00First and Deputy First Minister to discuss devolution of policing powers with Gordon Brown
- Gardaí investigate Westmeath incident10:50House in Mullingar cordoned-off after members of public report hearing gun shots
- Man taken from sea off Clare coast10:39Victim flown by coastguard helicopter to Galway hospital after falling into water near Doolin
- Ending of NI reserve ranks criticised08:16Decision to proceed with scheduled abolition of reserve officers denounced
- War dead to be commemorated07:42Thousands of soldiers killed in the World Wars to be honoured at service in Co Louth
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- Irish urged to continue tradition of foreign aid despite hard times
THE ISSUE of human rights is too often sidelined as being difficult, overly political and someone else’s business, former president Mary Robinson said last night. - Budget Travel booking seats despite licence expiry THE STATE’S largest tour operator says it is operating as normal despite the fact that its licence expired over a week ago.
- Gardaí hold three men over cocaine seizures GARDAÍ HAVE seized cocaine and crack cocaine valued at more than €1 million and have discovered a cocaine-processing facility in three search operations in west Dublin.
- Child protection director to take HSE post THE DIRECTOR of the child protection service for Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese will take up a new post with the HSE on Tuesday. Phil Garland will be one of four assistant national directors of its children’s and families’ service.
- Idle surgeon told to 'look at solutions' THE MINISTER for Health has appealed to a Donegal consultant who says he has virtually no work to do at Letterkenny General Hospital to “look at solutions” instead of “always identifying problems”.
- All-singing Connick out to bamboozle them entirely
MIRIAM LORD'S WEEK: EAT YOUR heart out Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, here comes
The Wex-Factor . The showbiz event of the year happens tonight when Fianna Fáil deputy Seán Connick returns to the stage after a 30-year absence. - Ireland fared well under Lemass, anniversary event told IRELAND did well economically in the 1960s under Seán Lemass but fared worse than the EU 15 average, and better only than Britain, a seminar to mark the 50th anniversary of his election as taoiseach was told.
- Labour wants fairer country - Burton THE MORE information the people had about the economic crisis, the sooner they would get rid of Fianna Fáil “and hopefully elect our first Labour taoiseach”, Joan Burton said last night.
- Women now aspire to boyish frame - study YOUNG women today aspire to “more androgynous” and “tubular” body shapes than their counterparts in previous generations, according to a study presented at a psychology conference yesterday.
- Hitler play provokes call for 'tolerance' WRITER AND director Peter Sheridan interrupted a play and other audience members walked out of the Tivoli Theatre on Thursday night in protest at the opening performance of
Adolf , a one-man show written and performed by Pip Utton.
- Monopoly omits Falls and Shankill The Falls and Shankill Roads have been omitted from a new Belfast version of Monopoly unveiled yesterday.
- Ending of reserve ranks criticised The police officers’ union and the DUP have denounced a decision by the PSNI chief constable to go ahead with the scheduled abolition of some 440 so-called Full-Time Reserve officer positions.
- Wife of Finian McGrath dies The death has taken place of Anne McGrath, née Russell, wife of the Dublin North Central TD Finian McGrath. She died yesterday at the Bon Secours Hospital in Glasnevin after a long illness.
- TUV 'leprechaun' remark regretted The Traditional Unionist Voice party has apologised for referring in a press release to Irish as a “leprechaun language”.
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- 'All citizens must be treated equally'
CORK: THE GOVERNMENT must be prepared to treat all the citizens of the State equally and not give preferential treatment to the wealthy if it wishes to avoid social and industrial unrest, a leading trade union official told thousands of people who attended the Ictu protest in Cork. - Tens of thousands in capital for largest protest DUBLIN: TENS OF thousands of people marched through Dublin city centre yesterday in the largest of the demonstrations organised by the Irish of Congress of Trade Unions to oppose planned Government cutbacks.
- More days of action promised LIMERICK: MORE THAN 5,000 people took to the streets of Limerick to tell the Government they will not accept any more pay cuts.
- Headache for Government whatever the attendance Despite the optimistic assessment of turnout, there were signs more people were feeling the fear and anger this time, writes
MIRIAM LORD
- Significant industrial unrest expected if no compromise found Industry Correspondent ANALYSIS: The Government and unions are on a collision course over their diametrically opposed economic strategies, writes
MARTIN WALL
- Around The Country GALWAY: THE Government’s approach to dealing with the economy can be characterised as the “Galway tent golden circle”, Impact assistant general secretary Pádraig Mulligan told some 6,000 participants in the Galway city demonstration.
Regional News
- Long life attributed to avoiding marriage and medicine
WHEN KATHLEEN Murray was born, King Edward had succeeded the late Victoria to the British throne and Theodore Roosevelt had become the first US president to ride in a car. Police had beaten up suffragettes campaigning for the right to vote in Brussels, and California had recorded the first person to fly a powered aircraft. - Blarney estate archive to be handed over to Cork centre THE FAMILY archive of the Blarney Castle estate in Cork is to be handed over to the Cork City and County Archive Centre next week.
- No funds for midwest - Tánaiste THE GOVERNMENT does not have the finances to implement some of the recommendations in a jobs taskforce report issued in response to the major job losses at the Dell plant, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan has admitted.
In the Courts
- Man loses action over Garda entry of home A MAN whose home was entered by gardaí in the mistaken belief that an armed criminal who they were pursuing might have taken the occupants hostage has lost his High Court action for damages for breach of his constitutional rights.
- Sentencing adjourned for report on addict A DRUG addict who robbed a priest at knifepoint after he tied him to a chair in his church has had his sentence adjourned again to allow for updated urine analysis and a probation report.
- Suspect who died in Garda station told doctor he used methadone A MAN who died of methadone poisoning in a Dublin Garda station, where he was being detained for questioning about the fatal shooting of a young mother, was not on a methadone treatment programme, an inquest has heard.
- Teacher loses bullying claim A TEACHER who told the Circuit Civil Court his bullying headmistress had made life hell for him has lost his €38,000 damages claim against the school.
- Nigerian woman claims she can prove daughter's death NIGERIAN MOTHER Pamela Izevbekhai has told the Supreme Court a sworn statement from a doctor asserting she never had a child who died as a result of complications from female genital mutilation (FGM) is untrue. She claims she has a certificate from another doctor to prove the child’s death.
- Man jailed for attack on taxi driver A DUBLIN man has been jailed for a year for his role in viciously attacking a taxi driver, leaving him with permanent brain damage.
- More time given to compensate pyramid victims A man involved in a pyramid scheme that accumulated losses of over €500,000 has been given more time to raise money to compensate the victims.
- Costume claim on 'Riverdance' in NY A fashion designer who created the costumes for
Riverdance the Show has told the High Court he was “shocked” to learn he would not be designing the outfits to be used during the show’s run on New York’s Broadway.
- Law Society elects new president The Law Society has elected Gerard Doherty as its new president, replacing John Shaw. He took office yesterday and will serve a one-year term as president of the 12,000-member solicitors’ profession until November 2010.
- Trial told man had hatchet in home The jury in the trial of a man alleged to be the getaway driver in a fatal shooting has heard that gardaí found a hatchet, a hammer and a motorbike jacket in his house in the hours after the murder.
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