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- Two barristers at Moriarty tribunal earn €8.5m each
TWO SENIOR counsel working for the Moriarty tribunal have so far earned €8.5 million each, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday. - 100 temporary contract nurses may lose their jobs ABOUT 100 nurses currently working on temporary contracts with the Health Service Executive (HSE) are among those who are expected to be let go as part of new moves to facilitate the appointment of new full-time personnel in high priority areas.
- Garda narcotics swoop leads to 80 arrests in Dublin GARDAÍ HAVE arrested 80 suspects in raids on homes throughout Dublin over the past number of days.
- Over 200 infants die worldwide from accidental strangling WORLDWIDE, MORE than 200 infants and young children have died by accidently strangling in windowblind cords, according to one estimate by US consumer authorities.
- Call for new inquiry into psychiatric care FAMILIES WHO say their relatives were mistreated in the mental health system have urged the Government to establish an independent inquiry into care standards across a number of psychiatric services.
- Declining number of Irish priests highlighted PRIESTS “WILL have effectively disappeared in Ireland in two to three decades,’’ a prominent West of Ireland priest has said.
- Construction work could be halted after talks on electricians' pay stalls WORKS AT up to 200 major construction sites around the country could be halted by strikes next week after talks on pay between contractors and a trade union representing some 10,500 electricians stalled last night.
- Oireachtas running costs to be cut by €40m THE COST of running the Houses of the Oireachtas will be cut by more than €40 million over the next three years to ensure greater value for money, the body charged with running the Dáil and the Seanad reported yesterday.
- New tax will not affect granny flats MINISTER FOR the Environment John Gormley said yesterday he would ensure the new €200 tax on second homes and holiday homes would not affect people residing in so-called “granny flats”.
- Council says flooding not caused by inadequate pipes THE FLOODS that resulted in overflowing drains and damage to houses, including collapsed boundary walls and overflowing toilets, were not caused by inadequate pipes or water mains, Dublin City Council has said.
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Regional News
- Defendants acquitted in waste case THE DIRECTORS of three waste disposal companies along with a former secretary of Mayo County Council who were acquitted by a jury yesterday of charges relating to breaches of competition law are to look for their costs from the State following their two-week trial in the Central Criminal Court sitting in Galway.
- Lightning strikes twice for lottery winner WHILE LIGHTNING struck Dublin yesterday, for one lucky woman in the capital it was a case of lightning striking twice.
- Developer died of asphyxia - inquest A LEADING property developer visited a psychiatrist the day before he died, an inquest heard yesterday.
- EU commissioner to meet Dell workers EU COMMISSIONER for employment, social affairs and equal opportunities Vladimir Spidla is in Limerick today to meet community representatives involved in the Moyross Regeneration project and workers made redundant from the Dell plant.
- Brothel case against women thrown out over warrant with wrong address THE CASE against three women charged with running a brothel in Dundalk, Co Louth, was thrown out yesterday after a judge found the search warrant used by gardaí referred to a different address.
- Wexford farm for sale at less than half previous asking price ONE OF Ireland’s highest profile farms, the 1,220-acre Begerin estate in Co Wexford, has been placed on the market again at nearly half the price sought 18-months ago.
- Clare water diviner's discovery creates jobs THE DISCOVERY of an underground water spring by a water diviner using a twisted metal coat hanger, has provided a much needed jobs boost to a west Clare village.
- Pupils get antiviral as swine flu case confirmed FIRST AND second-class children at a Co Roscommon national school, who only got their summer holidays two days ago, had to return to the school yesterday to be given antiviral drugs after one of their classmates tested positive for the swine flu virus.
- Councillor bound to peace for insulting fellow FG activist A NEWLY ELECTED Fine Gael councillor has been bound to the peace for 12 months for calling a fellow party member “a f****** scab”.
In the Courts
- Inquest told toddler died by hanging on cord
THE FATHER of a two-year-old child who accidentally hanged himself from a Venetian blind cord in his own home has appealed to other families to ensure that no similar tragedy occurs again. - Former garda faces sentence over leaked report A FORMER senior garda will be sentenced later this month for leaking a confidential government report to an Evening Herald reporter. Retired detective Robert McNulty (50) had been “obsessed” with restoring his reputation since coming under a 2006 public inquiry into the Dean Lyons case and had denied contacting reporter Mick McCaffrey.
- Izevbekhai appeal may not be heard until next October AN APPEAL by Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai aimed at halting the deportation of herself and her two young daughters may not now be heard until the autumn, the Supreme Court has indicated.
- Planning board accused of allowing destruction of priority Corrib habitat THE STATE has accused An Bord Pleanála of permitting “the deliberate destruction” of priority habitat limestone pavement at the protected Lough Corrib site in Co Galway by granting approval for the €317 million Galway city outer bypass.
- Nursing home wanted 'appeal' held in camera A CO Offaly nursing home, which lodged an appeal against a Health Service Executive (HSE) decision to attach conditions to its registration, wanted its appeal to be heard in camera, a court was told yesterday.
- Taxi driver given 10 years over drugs haul A TAXI driver caught with heroin worth an estimated €1 million in his car and at the home he shared with his partner has been given the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for this offence by Judge Frank O’Donnell.
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In the North
Dail Report
- Opposition critical of plan to cut debate time THE GOVERNMENT was sharply criticised by the Opposition for curtailing debate on legislation before the Dáil adjourns for the summer recess next week.
- Department monitoring extreme target shooting competitions - Ahern CERTAIN KINDS of target shooting were not a sport, Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern told the Dáil. He said his department had monitored with concern the development of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), which organised competitions where people shot their way through multi-stage target courses based on real-life combat scenarios.
- Inquiry into English paper controversy to report today MINISTER FOR Education Batt O’Keeffe will receive the inquiry report on the Leaving Certificate English paper controversy today and will publish it on the department’s website, “when I have had the opportunity to consider its contents”.
- O'Keeffe says it is too early to set up forum on school patronage IT WOULD be premature to establish a forum on school patronage until current work on the issue is completed, according to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe.
- Government rejects SF call to hold Donegal byelection THE GOVERNMENT rejected a renewed attempt by Sinn Féin to have the writ moved for the Donegal South West byelection. The vacancy was caused by the election of Pat “the Cope’’ Gallagher to the European Parliament.
- Committee reassured Irish funds to Uganda are not going missing THERE WAS no evidence of any money being siphoned off for corrupt purposes from Irish funds provided in Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Uganda, a parliamentary sub-committee was told at Leinster House yesterday.
- Most gay pupils bullied in school - youth service EDUCATION COMMITTEE: MOST LESBIAN, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) second-level students have suffered homophobic bullying, the Belong To youth service has told an Oireachtas Education Committee.
- Wording of law to criminalise blasphemy a farce, says Norris SEANAD REPORT: DAVID NORRIS (Ind) said he was astonished that the Minister for Justice told the Dáil that legislation to criminalise blasphemy had been drawn up to make it virtually impossible to get a successful prosecution out of it. That was a very peculiar way to be drafting law.
- Both sides trade sharp exchanges as Bills get the chop DAIL SKETCH: THE SPIRIT of Madame La Guillotine continued to haunt Dáil Éireann yesterday as debate on three more Bills was scheduled for the chop.
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