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Garda to seek more funds for 'Anvil'
An Garda Síochána is preparing plans to seek a multimillion euro round of new funding from the Government in an effort to intensify its Operation Anvil campaign against armed gangs in Dublin, The Irish Times has learned. p

Lack of consumer awareness costs close to €1bn
Lack of consumer awareness is costing the economy almost €1 billion a year, the head of the Government's new National Consumer Agency has said. p

Season's rag parade kickstarts with military styles and the mini
Omagh-born, Paris-based designer Sharon Wauchob will be among the new names gracing the Arnotts fashion floor this autumn. Her knits - both chunky and delicate, were outstanding at the store's autumn/winter show in Dublin yesterday. p

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Huge numbers of lethal firearms in the hands of young criminals
Analysis/The weapons: As part of their ongoing investigations into drug-related gangland shootings, gardaí in recent years have been confiscating increasingly large numbers of firearms from criminal elements. Tom Clonan reports. p
Gang-related shootings the year so far
Compiled by Conor Lally .Photographs: The Irish Times,Collins and the Sunday World p
BCI to offer licences for new radio stations
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) intends to offer a number of new radio licences for a range of special-interest markets, it was announced yesterday. p
Ahern to meet family of murdered man
The Taoiseach is to meet the family of Dublin man Joseph Rafferty who, it has been alleged, was shot dead by a member of the IRA in west Dublin last April. p
Poverty test will target small areas
Experts are drawing up new ways to measure affluence and deprivation in communities, which would be detailed enough to measure the status of individual streets and neighbourhoods for the first time. p
New suicide strategy will replace a patchwork of services
The State is finally taking serious steps to tackle our growing suicide problem, writes Carl O'Brien . p
Tackling suicide
Immediate action p
US nursing method may benefit Ireland
A groundbreaking staff-management partnership programme that improves the lives of nursing home residents could be established in Ireland, following a meeting between the programme's advocate and the Minister for Health. p
De Valera recast by history as dictator, conference told
Historians here have distorted the historical record for the past 30 years by propagating the State's "reinterpretation" of its foundation which involved Eamon de Valera being painted as "a dictator" and Michael Collins as a constitutionalist protecting democracy, a leading Scottish historian has argued. p
Jewish contribution to society praised
The Jewish community in Ireland, although small, has made "a tremendous contribution" to our national heritage, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday. p
Hobbs legal threat halts printing of 'Village'
Village magazine yesterday stopped the printing of the issue due in newsagents today because of what it said was threatened legal action from Eddie Hobbs, presenter of television series Rip-Off Ireland. p
Ruling on pregnancy sick leave dismays authority
The Equality Authority has expressed disappointment that an Irish woman who took a discrimination case to the European Court of Justice over sick leave entitlements for pregnant women has lost her case. p
Hanafin defends publication of school reports
The proposed publication of inspectors' reports will provide parents with a fair and balanced assessment of how a school is performing, said Minister for Education Mary Hanafin. p
Socialists opposed to bin charge face €20,600 legal bill
Socialists and anti-bin tax campaigners Joe Higgins and Clare Daly face a legal bill of €20,600 arising from their jailing two years ago in relation to disrupting refuse collections. p
Dail committee hears Scientology submission
Inmates should not be allowed to leave prison until they can prove they are able to read and write, a Church of Scientology representative told a Dáil committee yesterday. p
SF to focus on health in new Dail term
Sinn Féin has said it will focus on the continuing crisis in public health services as its main priority for the new Dáil term. p
In Short . . .
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p

In the North

President's Belfast school visit proves to be 'morale-booster'
President Mary McAleese successfully concluded what threatened to be a difficult visit to Belfast yesterday where, in very different circumstances, she met children, parents and teachers from the Shankill and later a similar grouping from loyalist south Belfast. p
Visit lifted by a welcome and cheerful event - <i>that</i> winning goal
President Mary McAleese had a good day in Belfast yesterday. That was down to an odd combination of formidable school headmistresses, the UDA and that match - not the va-va-voom-Henry game, the va-va-voom-Healy one. p
Attacks in North worry Minister
Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has expressed concern about continuing sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland as tension mounts about tomorrow's rerouted Orange Order Whiterock parade in west Belfast. p

In the Courts

Fitzwilton given leave to seek release of documents
Fitzwilton Ltd was yesterday granted leave by the High Court to seek access to documentation from the Mahon tribunal before the tribunal begins public hearings into a IR£30,000 payment by the company to Ray Burke for Fianna Fáil funds. p

Festival of Science

Livelihood of farmers threatened by spread of HIV
African economies: HIV and Aids were having a significant impact on Africa's ability to feed itself and the disease was taking farmers and workers off the land, this against a pre-existing backdrop of declining food production. p
Top Lotto town falls down on its luck
Good fortune: The luck of Skibbereen didn't stand up to the scrutiny of a fun scientific test, the BA Festival heard yesterday. p
Fossils from 'jumbo jet' of reptiles identified
Scientists believe they have identified fossils from a new species of flying reptile that lived between 70 million and 80 million years ago. p
Teenagers really do get 'dumber'
Adolescence: Teenagers have a knack for being annoying but don't blame them, blame their hormones. p
Minister escapes from encircling molecule to praise festival
The Minister for Education and Science learned first hand yesterday of the dangers of science during her visit to the BA Festival of Science at Trinity College Dublin. p
What's on. . .
Today and at the weekend. p

Regional News

Protest over office planned for Shannon site
Plans by cross-Border body Waterways Ireland to build a regional office in Carrick-on-Shannon are under review following a storm of protest from residents. p
Legal change may allow Irish forces into new EU battle groups
The Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea, yesterday expressed confidence that Ireland will be able to implement legislative change rather than having to seek constitutional change to allow the Defence Forces to participate in European Union battle groups. p
School bus row escalates in Sligo, Leitrim
Schoolchildren in Sligo and north Leitrim are facing severe transport disruption next Friday, September 16th, following a decision by private bus operators to escalate a protest over pay. p
Farmers told apple growing can bear fruit
Good opportunities are open to farmers in the apple-growing industry, where only €3 million worth of home-produced crop is being supplied into a market worth €80 million annually. p
Greyhound trainer operated knackery
A well-known greyhound trainer operated an unlicensed knackery to feed his dogs, a court in Co Kerry has heard. p
Dingle turtle sends back deep-sea signals
The giant leatherback turtle released back into the sea over a week ago in Co Kerry is giving back signals from her electronic tag and is now over 330km (205 miles) south-southwest of Dingle, heading for the mid-Atlantic. p
Sean Boylan to be made Freeman of Meath
Former Meath football manager Seán Boylan, who led the county's senior team to four All-Ireland victories during his 23-year career is to be conferred with the county's highest civic honour, Freeman of Meath. p

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