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Jailed woman faces further sentence
A woman who was jailed for two years last year for defrauding the European Commission of more than €64,000 will be sentenced in October by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for further fraud and forgery crimes.
Anne Levins (36), Forest Park, Drogheda, Co Louth, has pleaded guilty to two sample charges of stealing a cheque for the sum of €1,246 and to forgery involving a foreign bank draft.
Inmates attack prison officers
Three prison officers were attacked by two inmates during a routine search of a cell in Limerick prison. The incident happened at 11am yesterday in the B wing area of the prison. According to one prison source, chamber pots containing urine were thrown at the officers, who were trying to search the cell for a mobile phone. None of the officers was seriously injured and an investigation is being carried out.
It is understood disciplinary action will be taken against the prisoners involved.
Fugitive driver given jail term
A man who tried to crash head-on into a Garda car and then drove dangerously through a busy late-night street was yesterday sentenced to three months' imprisonment and banned from driving for 10 years.
Derek Devoy (23), Poppintree Drive, Ballymun, Dublin, denied he was the driver of the car which tried to flee from gardaí through Finglas village in the early hours of February 10th.
€13m funding to maintain disused dumps
Some €13 million has been earmarked for maintaining disused landfill dumps this year, the Government announced yesterday.
The grants will be given to local councils to help carry out works on old municipal waste facilities highlighted as being a risk to human health.
This is the first time taxpayers' money has been allocated for such a scheme and is in response to local authority concerns that they could not afford to carry out the necessary treatments.
Coalition rumours 'a dolly mixture'
Minister for Social Affairs Séamus Brennan has dismissed speculation about a potential coalition between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party as only "clouding the picture" and was "a dolly mixture approach" to politics, writes Liam Reid
He was reacting to remarks by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern, who earlier this week said he could envisage coalition with the Green Party.
Woman killed in Meath crash
A woman in her 20s died yesterday after the car she was driving collided with a truck on the Athboy to Trim road in Co Meath. Gardaí in Kells are investigation the collision which occurred around 9.10am.
A total of 245 of people have now died on Irish roads this year.
Siptu picket at nursing home
Seven Siptu members have begun picketing a nursing home in Co Limerick, claiming they have been locked out by their employer. The seven had returned to work at the Maria Goretti nursing home in Kilmallock after protesting over the dismissal of a colleague, the union said.
They were told that their jobs had been taken by five new employees, said Siptu branch organiser Pat Condon. The nursing home could not be contacted for comment.