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EU budget 'a good deal for Ireland', Taoiseach says Taoiseach Enda Kenny arrives at the EU headquarters in Brussels for today?s budget talks.  Photograph:  Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Taoiseach Enda Kenny hailed today’s EU budget deal as a “good deal for Ireland” but reiterated the need to secure European Parliament…

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Stephen Collins Stephen Collins - Political Editor

Coalition held its nerve when others despaired

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A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London. Britain steps up security after soldier killed in London attack

‘You people will never be safe,’ warns killer

Elective Caesarean sections are far more common among pregnant women who attend private consultants than among mothers delivering in the public health system Caesarean rate higher in private care

Study says C-section rate 74 per cent higher among women attending private consultant

British foreign secretary David Miliband argued that the real problem in Europe was “delivery deficit”. Photograph: PA David Miliband warns that British weakness in Europe could hold back Ireland

“On a whole range of issues where Britain and Ireland have common interests and common cause, we get left behind. This is the more serious danger”

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: under pressure over high-level garda briefing Opposition says questions remain about information on Wallace ‘ticking-off’

Academic says sharing of such information ‘not within spirit of the law’

Roll-your-own tobacco products could be banned Taoiseach conducts formal talks with tobacco indstry

Industry figures call on Government to reject proposals to ban menthol and roll-your-own products.

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