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  • Over 300 take part in 85th river Liffey swim

    Swimmers avail of the on-street shower facilities after taking part in the annual Dublin Liffey Swim, from Watling Street Bridge to the Custom House at the weekend. Surgical gloves, plastic bottles and crisp packets were just some of the items floating in the river Liffey at first glance. Nonetheless, over 300 swimmers, aged 14 to 75, were willing to dive straight in on Saturday to compete in the 85th annual Dublin Liffey swim. p
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  • Three killed in road accident in Donegal

    Three people were killed and a number of others seriously injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Co Donegal yesterday evening. p

  • FF blamed for economic woes of 1980s

    Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has blamed Fianna Fáil for the economic failures of the 1980s, saying the Taoiseach's claim that his party cured rather than caused the problems was a "grotesque" revision of history. p

  • State paid more than €45m for 51 school sites

    The State has paid out more than €45 million for 51 sites for new schools around the State in the past 5½ years - including several multimillion euro payments to property developers and religious orders. p

  • Peace garden dedicated to Irish priest

    The year before he died in the September 11th attack on the Twin Towers, Fr Mychal Judge had called to a farmhouse in Keshcarrigan, Co Leitrim, and asked for directions to his father's ancestral home. p

  • Hollywood-style letters proclaim Co Kerry town's name as Dingle

    Some of the protest group who erected the 7.6m (25 ft) high Dingle sign above the town yesterday. The protesters concealed their identification in case the sign breached planning regulations. A giant Hollwood-style sign has been erected on a hill overlooking the Co Kerry town of An Daingean. The sign proclaims the town's name as the anglicised Dingle. p

  • Jackson Way to take action over €13 million payout

    The controversial English property company Jackson Way is to take court action shortly to force a €13 million compensation payout by Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council. p

  • Irish seafaring jobs at risk, report warns

    Irish seafaring jobs could be wiped out within five years unless the State provides increased aid for the shipping sector, a Government-commissioned report has warned. p

  • Outsource decision led to Siptu dispute

    Irish Ferries' use of low-paid workers from abroad caused a damaging strike, writes Chris Dooley , Industry and Employment Correspondent p

  • Two members of Goal resign

    Two members of the American board of Goal have resigned in protest at comments made last week about Hurricane Katrina by the aid agency's Irish director, John O'Shea. p

  • Laide and Mackey complete sentences

    Two men convicted of violent disorder in connection with the death of Brian Murphy outside Anabel's nightclub in Dublin in August 2000 have completed their prison sentences. p

  • Teenagers left drained by their changing brains

    Hormonal change, lack of sleep and ongoing changes in the brain have to be taken into account when assessing teenage behaviour, those attending the BA Festival of Science's family day in the RDS heard yesterday. p

  • Druid works its magic on Synge in Inis Meain

    It was a case of bringing it all back home when Druid Theatre concluded the Irish run of its much-acclaimed Synge cycle on the island of Inis Meáin yesterday. p

  • Feminists may force Islamic law rethink - academic

    Emerging feminist voices in Islam may influence a "much-needed paradigm shift" in Islamic law, an Iranian academic told an international conference at NUI Galway at the weekend. p

  • Activists told Bush and Blair should be jailed

    Human rights activists in the West should focus their energies on putting US president George W Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair behind bars for "mass murder", a US-based political scientist told the "Reframing Islam" conference at NUI Galway yesterday. p

  • Burundian girl may be linked to sex slavery

    A 16-year-old Burundian girl has been taken into care in Drogheda, Co Louth, after she was found wandering the streets of the town in a distressed state. p

  • Dublin councils sending garden waste to landfill

    Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council have confirmed they are sending garden waste to landfill because they have no green-waste recycling facilities. p

  • Man charged over friend's heroin death

    A 31-year-old Limerick man, who allegedly injected heroin into his friend who was later found dead in a laneway, apologised to the family of the deceased, a special court sitting has heard. p

  • FF select candidates for North Kerry

    The TD Thomas McEllistrim along with Norma Foley, the daughter of former TD Denis Foley, have been selected to contest the next general election for Fianna Fáil in the three-seater Kerry North constituency. p

  • In Short

     A round-up of today's other stories in brief    p

  • Time for the Minister to get moving on salmon stocks

    Angling Notes: At a time when the lobby to cease salmon drift netting is at an all-time high, writes Derek Evans , it is fitting to repeat the wording of the full page advert in The Irish Times of December 10th, 2001, on behalf of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund. p
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  • Call for Corrib gas hearing to end impasse

    The Green Party has called for a full oral hearing into the Corrib onshore gas pipeline in an attempt to break the impasse over the imprisonment of five Mayo residents. p

  • Siege of Ennis captures a world record for Cork

    The record-breaking ceili in Cork at the weekend: 8,371 people danced the popular set on Saturday afternoon, 1,580 more than when the previous dance record was set in the US in Dublin, Ohio, in 1998. The sun may not have been shining but there were beaming faces all around the streets of Cork on Saturday afternoon as the European Capital of Culture 2005 danced its way into the Guinness Book of Records by hosting the world's biggest ever céilí. p

  • Campaign launched to stop shelter for homeless

    A campaign has been launched to prevent a wet shelter for homeless people being opened in an area of Cork city. p

  • Volume of planning in Clare criticised

    Clare County Council has refused planning permission to only 10 holiday homes from applications for over 300 tax-driven holiday homes since the start of the year. p
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