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Brothers Jimmy (left) and Seán Duggan showing off their hurling skills at NUI Galway yesterday, where they were conferred with the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts in recognition of their lifetime contribution to Galway hurling. Photograph: Joe OShaughnessy

Brothers Jimmy (left) and Seán Duggan showing off their hurling skills at NUI Galway yesterday, where they were conferred with the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts in recognition of their lifetime contribution to Galway hurling. Photograph: Joe OShaughnessy

  • Taoiseach to stress party discipline as medical card vote looms
  • Wall Street rallies as Fed chief backs further fiscal stimulus
  • Man who was sexually harassed awarded €49,700

Ireland

  • RTÉ announces cutbacks of more than €25m
  • Thousands on low incomes do not get bin tax waiver
  • Boys used Yorkshire landscape as their muse
  • Picking Bilberries
  • TV3 lays off 15 and cuts news coverage as ad revenue slumps
  • Gambling committee chief opposes betting machines
  • Budget cuts put rights at risk, says Amnesty
  • New low in house-building numbers
  • Killer escapes after scuffle with victim's brother
  • One of Ireland's most volatile gangland disputes
  • UCC Chinese student urges Cowen to inquire about his mother's detention
  • Funding of support services for ex-offenders is withdrawn
  • Couple recover after armed raid
  • No health risks from electric link - EirGrid
  • O'Keeffe welcomes chance to attract Chinese students
  • Meeting over resumption of Belfield bus service
  • In short
  • Greens criticise way medical card issue was handled
  • Legislation will prevent IMO from negotiating fees with Government
  • Talks with doctors already under way - Harney
  • No easy solution through knocking on IMO's door
  • Pensioners and low-paid may escape income levy
  • Teachers label school cuts as 'unworkable'
  • Cuts affect 'most vulnerable'
  • McGrath breaks off deal with Fianna Fáil
  • Older people to outline concerns on medical cards
  • Three arrested in UCD as students protest about fees
  • New commission proposed to inquire into unsolved NI deaths
  • Suffering of Troubles continues
  • British-Irish parliamentary body members demand material for families' civil action
  • Court reserves judgment in Omagh case
  • High Court grants three repossession orders
  • Jail for man who robbed Australian backpackers
  • Shareholders sue McNamara over €7.5m holding in property company
  • Woman convicted as cannabis 'drug mule' has sentence halved
  • 'Unjustifiable' listing by council alleged
  • Ryanair berated over late payments
  • Sentence doubled on assault charge
  • Woman awarded €7,750 for dance party arm injury
  • Nuns seek for 32.5 acres to be zoned residential
  • Man (23) on bail left taxi driver with fractured skull
  • Woman's liver failure due to paracetamol
  • In short
  • NRA says it is focused on inter-city networks
  • Mountain plan includes new trails, interpretative centre
  • 'Locked In' mother confounds medics by breathing unaided
  • US group's contract at luxury hotel ends
  • Warning on illegal medicine supply
  • Travel archive acquired by UL maps 400 years
  • In short

World

  • Reform milestone as China permits trade of farmland
  • Economic woes threaten future of Iran's regime
  • Ukrainian snap election postponed
  • Signs of global slowdown affecting China
  • Regional Zimbabwe powersharing summit postponed
  • EU trade commissioner-designate Ashton rejects criticism she lacks experience
  • Sri Lankan army claims capture of more Tamil rebel territory
  • Bolivians face widespread layoffs as US suspends trade preferences over drug trafficking
  • Behind global financial crisis lurks the spectre of Lisbon
  • In Short
  • Obama warns race is set to tighten
  • Possible Obama team
  • Possible McCain team
  • Clinton joins Obama on campaign trail in early voting Florida
  • Top brass in Pentagon divided over McCain
  • Vote could put end to same-sex marriage
  • Republican fundraising falls far short of Obama figure

Finance

  • 100 jobs to go as Aer Arann cuts workforce
  • Bord Gáis seeks go-ahead for price rise of up to 8%
  • IMF chief apologises for 'error of judgment' in having affair
  • EMPG in $125m joint venture with Dubai government
  • China acts to boost property sector as figures show sharp drop in growth
  • Payzone expects pretax loss of €39m
  • Cork-based help desk to close with loss of 37 jobs
  • Top heads roll at France's Caisse d'Epargne over €600m unauthorised loss
  • Movidia secures €10.5m funding from consortium
  • Bookmaker William Hill to boost online business with €190m deal with Playtech
  • In Short
  • Andor shareholders to decide if high-tech Cinderella venture has a fairytale ending
  • Leading banks have mixed fortunes as market gains
  • Iceland set to reveal $6bn IMF-led rescue plan following collapse of its banking system
  • Large gains for global equities as thaw in interbank lending gives investors hope
  • Oil prices struggle as sentiment weakens
  • Sweden moves to shore up its banks with €150bn guarantee
  • Not-so-retiring US hedge fund manager bows out
  • Politicians rebuke Deutsche Bank chief for his views on state bailout

Features

  • Reviving the fine art of cafe culture
  • Cork artist who joined Victorian elite
  • Untouched by the Celtic Tiger years
  • Con text
  • REVIEWS

Sport

  • O'Driscoll's injury not too serious
  • Kinnear curses luck this time
  • Boylan admits facing tough Test
  • Munster and Leinster making us a little giddy
  • Trapattoni not afraid to do it his way
  • Ferguson plays guessing game
  • Wenger doesn't need insults to motivate men
  • Torres declines visit to his old Atletico stomping ground
  • Special One sends out clear signal
  • Galway move outside drop zone
  • Fenlon remains optimistic
  • Order of Merit race almost over for Karlsson
  • Maybin has extra incentive
  • Bermuda the ideal setting to celebrate
  • They're feeling the pinch in the clubhouse
  • Short Game
  • Buckley expects Ireland will rise to the challenge
  • Players get chance to socialise at formal dinner
  • Septimus has locals scared
  • Stealth strategy pays quick dividends
  • Whirlwind visit pleases the punters
  • Sports Digest

Opinion

  • Targeting thelittle ones
  • Falling prices
  • Time to 'beat on the brat with a baseball bat'
  • America to lose superpower status in global financial system
  • There must be a return on our trust in the Taoiseach
  • Morris findings justify sharing of information
  • Warmer welcome likely for Cowen in Tiananmen Square than in Leinster House
  • Woman priest is regularly asked 'When will our church get round to it?'
  • A voyage of discovery from grinagogs to vicambulists
  • An Irishman's Diary

Letters

  • Reactions to Budget 2009
  • Debate on the banking crisis
  • Revamping of Capel Street
  • Animal vivisection at Trinity
  • Lisbon Treaty solution
  • Church blessing for pets
  • Girls who give trouble
  • An Irish soldier's Chad diary
  • Problems in funding pensions

Education

  • A modest leader with the X Factor
  • How to get it right in the Leaving
  • Our children will feel Budget pain
  • Banking on a positive future in the financial sector
  • Batt faces a backlash on cuts
  • Noticeboard

Health

  • Women fear condom-carrying image
  • Extended working day for new staff is agreed
  • MRSA screening of 'no real value'
  • GPs fear continuing loss of rural services
  • Research focuses on new radar-based breast test
  • Decision on Cork day hospital deferred
  • Talented centre's grant cut without warning
  • Genetics could be key to understanding autoimmune diseases, says professor
  • GPs' financial incentive 'ridiculous'
  • In Short
  • Banking on the brain
  • Aiming to ward people off
  • Delay for primary care centres
  • Patriotism - long gone with old promises
  • Running out of time now
  • On the run tonight
  • What can I do?
  • Creating a new family dynamic
  • Coping with debs stresses
  • Emotional intelligence: the psychology of better parenting
  • Gaining insight through pain - a silver lining?
  • Now I'll be the baby, and you be the grown-up
  • Planning to leave the world of work
  • Why you need to absorb the GI index
  • 'Rash returns when I stop using the antifungal treatment'
  • Money, money, money - ain't it funny?
  • Making waves about music
  • A cure on the cards?
  • Happiness is an instant to catch
  • Changes should be monitored
  • Lifelines
  • A&E is the real casualty
  • Take a breath and then a leap
  • Feverfew may benefit those with migraine
  • A journey from the Park
  • Influenced by the overcoming of adversity

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