A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Judgment in Traveller case due today
Judgment will be given today in a case taken by an elderly Traveller couple in chronic ill-health who have sought a High Court order aimed at securing a heated caravan with indoor plumbing, writes Alison Healy.
Patrick Doherty (75) and his wife Bridget (70) took the case against South Dublin County Council, the Minister for the Environment and the Attorney General, claiming that they were being discriminated against as Travellers and that their human rights were being breached because they had not been provided with appropriate accommodation.
They claimed the Minister for the Environment and South Dublin County Council had an obligation to provide appropriate accommodation under the Housing Acts when taken in accordance with the EU Race Directive, the Equal Status Acts, the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Their mobile home, which was described in court as "decrepit", is parked on an emergency site in Clondalkin with no cooking or washing facilities or indoor plumbing. The applicants both suffer from serious health problems.
Mr Justice Peter Charleton will deliver his ruling this morning.
Deal averts strike at Waterford plant
Industrial action, due to begin last night in Waterford manufacturing plant Bausch and Lomb, has been cancelled following an agreement between management and union representatives.
Some 1,500 workers at the contact lens manufacturing plant had been put on protective notice following a decision by the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union to take official industrial action against the company in a row over the suspension of an employee on a disciplinary matter.
Hundreds attend McHugh funeral
President Mary McAleese was officially represented at the funeral on Saturday of John McHugh, Altona, Ballylinan, Co Laois, husband of Anna May McHugh, the managing director of the National Ploughing Association.
Hundreds of people attended the removal and burial which took place following Requiem Mass at St Anne's Church, Ballylinan on Saturday before burial in the adjoining cemetery.
The attendance included the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen and the Minister of State, Tom Parlon, and a broad section of farming representatives, agri-business, the GAA and local representatives of all political parties.