• National Museum receives 7th century bog artefact

  A 7th century crozier uncovered in a Co Offaly bog, which is believed to be one of the earliest dated Christian objects found in Ireland, was presented to the National Museum in Dublin yesterday. p
  

• Thousands flock south for Open

  Thousands of golf fans are expected to crowd into Ballybunion, Co Kerry, from today until Saturday as they attend the Murphy's Irish Open. p
  

• Fund-raisers aim at record

  Some 12 climbers are aiming to raise £40,000 for Focus Ireland and get an entry in the Guinness Book of Records on July 4th by conquering five of the highest peaks in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. p
  

• Cameras to clean up Ennis

  A three-week closed-circuit television trial started in Ennis yesterday designed to capture litter louts on video. This will allow Ennis UDC to take legal proceedings. In recent months there has been a renewed effort to clean up the streets of the town. p
  

• Priest says inflation plan won't help poor

  New Government measures to deal with inflation failed to address the situation of the most vulnerable people, Father Sean Healy, of the Conference of Religious of Ireland's Justice Commission, has said. p
  

• Report calls for creation of national housing body

  A National Economic and Social Forum project team has called for the establishment of a national housing authority. p
  

• Housing idea well received

  There was strong support for the idea of a national housing authority at a plenary session of the National Economic and Social Forum in Dublin Castle yesterday. p
  

• Study identifies suitable Dublin high-rise areas

  The area around Heuston Station in Dublin has been identified as a suitable location for high-rise buildings in the first draft of a long-awaited study of the city's skyline. p
  

• Winners range from `creative' urban infill to castle restoration

  A total of 21 building projects, including a significant number in the public sector, have won recognition for excellence in this year's regional awards of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. p
  

• Backlog in foreign adoptions revealed

  Couples in the south-east seeking to adopt a foreign child are waiting 2 1/2 years to be assessed by social workers, new figures show. p
  

• List of award winners

  Dublin (under £100,000) p
  

• High Court grants ESB permission to erect pylons

  The ESB yesterday won a High Court order quashing a decision of Cork County Council to revoke planning permission for a £9 million development of overhead powerlines in Cork Harbour. p
  

• Father of disturbed girl in plea to judge

  The father of an at-risk and extremely disturbed teenage girl with a borderline personality disorder appealed to a High Court judge yesterday to direct the Minister for Health and Children to come before the court and say exactly when a high-support place would be available for his daughter. p
  

• Anti-pylon campaigners plan permanent protest

  Anti-pylon campaigners yesterday expressed disappointment at the High Court's decision to allow the ESB to proceed with the erection of pylons across Cork Harbour, amid promises that eco-campaigners would return to east Cork to prevent the scheme going ahead. p
  

• Blasket landowners lose damages claim over invalid Act

  The High Court yesterday ruled that four people, who own most of the Great Blasket island and who last year successfully challenged the constitutionality of legislation aimed at compulsorily purchasing their property with a view to making the island a national park, were not entitled to damages from the State. p
  

• Threats made by Keating, court hears

  A small businessman is living in fear of his life following his alleged involvement in a £20 million VAT fraud with former politician Mr Michael Keating, a British court heard yesterday. p
  

• Suspect's diary used in evidence

  Mr Trevor Stokes, a Co Kildare man accused of murder, wrote in a personal diary about his wish to break a man's legs, the Darwin Supreme Court was told yesterday. p
  

• Sentencing next week for rapist

  A Co Limerick porter who raped a bank manager's daughter 20 years ago is due to be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court by Mr Justice O'Sullivan next Wednesday. p
  

• Man jailed for 2 years for assault

  A 22-year-old man has been jailed for two years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting a teenage woman who refused to have sex with him. p
  

• Man tried to eat forged bank draft when arrested, court told

  A man tried to eat a forged bank draft valued at $56.5 million when arrested by gardai, it was alleged in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in the fraud trial of five men. p
  

• Builders sued over site dust

  Three residents of a Dublin Corporation block of flats are suing a developer for inconvenience caused by the construction of a major office and apartment complex. p
  

• Teacher seeking to sue hospital

  A Co Galway teacher who was alleged to have had serious delusions that his wife was having sexual affairs with at least six men is seeking leave from the High Court to sue the psychiatric hospital where he was committed for treatment, St John of God Hospital, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. p
  

• Boy (13) to move to special school in England

  An unprecedented order was made by the High Court yesterday directing the release of a troubled teenage boy from a State remand centre so he may reside in a special school in England on weekdays and spend weekends with his mother and siblings. p
  

• Date set for Jackson Way disclosure case

  The High Court has fixed July 20th for the hearing of a legal challenge to decisions of the Flood tribunal regarding solicitor-client privilege, including an order directing disclosure of the identity of those involved with Jackson Way Properties Ltd, a company under investigation by the tribunal. p
  

• UK scientists create a new, improved `Dolly'

  Scientists in Britain have taken a significant step beyond Dolly by creating the first sheep clones whose genes have been "selectively modified". p
  

• Call for resignation of head of Medical Council

  The Association of General Practitioners has called for the resignation of Prof Gerard Bury as president of the Medical Council in response to the manpower problems facing the medical profession from July 1st. p
  

• Medical Council wants more lay members

  The Medical Council has proposed an increase in the number of its lay members in its submission to the Minister of Health on a new Medical Practitioners Act. p
  

• Campaign for flying doctor service

  The Minister for Health, Mr Martin, will meet a delegation from the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service committee next month, when he will be told of the urgent need to establish a flying doctor service in the State. p
  

• Hospital in Naas under pressure to cope with registrar shortage

  For many provincial hospitals, Saturday will mean an even bigger challenge than usual for the July 1st changeover of medical staff. General hospitals in Cavan, Naas, Monaghan, Portlaoise and Ballinasloe will wake up to unanswered bleeps and significant medical manpower shortages. p
  

• Gaps in key areas likely to remain

  Most non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) change jobs every six months - moving on January 1st and July 1st. The July changeover is a more fundamental one as it involves all grades of non-consultant doctor, from intern to senior registrar. p
  

• Teacher and 2 pupils walk out on McGuinness

  A teacher and two pupils from a primary school in Co Tyrone walked out of a science exhibition in Belfast because of the presence of the Sinn Fein Minister of Education, Mr Martin McGuinness. p
  

• Higher salaries to attract leading academics proposed

  Universities would for the first time be able to recruit high-profile academics from abroad by offering them salaries above the standard rates under a plan from the Higher Education Authority. Many Irish universities have had difficulty in recruiting academics in disciplines such as information technology and genetics because they cannot compete with the rates of pay at larger international universities and in the private sector. p
  

• Ministers told to listen to concerns of backbenchers

  The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, has instructed Ministers to listen more closely to backbenchers following the battering the party has taken in recent weeks over the O'Flaherty controversy. p
  

• Besieged Coalition circles the wagons

  Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats circled the wagons at Leinster House yesterday. They were separate circles, but they were close enough to offer one another covering fire if the Opposition "injuns" looked like overrunning the Coalition camp. p
  

• I am not going to be hounded out of office - Harney

  The Tanaiste, Ms Harney, said yesterday that she had no intention of resigning and would not be "hounded out of office" by the Opposition. p
  

• New Bill on public office standards

  Key legislation covering standards in public office will be published today by the Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy. p
  

• Media coverage saddens McDaid

  The Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Dr McDaid, said yesterday that sections of the media were determined to "bring down the Government". He said that the risk to democracy was comparable to that faced by Germany in the 1930s. p
  

• Bar staff get 26% rise for extra hours

  Publicans' profit margins are expected to come under extra pressure from Saturday as the result of a new pay deal. The Mandate trade union has negotiated increases worth 26 per cent in return for bar staff in Dublin and Wicklow agreeing to work longer hours under the new licensing laws. p
  

• Seven arrests over train raid

  Four men with republican connections were among seven people arrested by gardai yesterday for questioning about the armed raid on a freight train in Co Louth last July. p
  

• Three die in road accidents

  Three people have been killed in recent days on the roads. p
  

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