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  • Nearly 200 people killed in Brazilian plane crash

    18:15 Rescue workers hunted for bodies in the smoking wreckage of an airliner today after it crashed at Brazil's busiest airport, killing up to 200 people in the country's worst air disaster. The terminal at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport echoed with the shock and sorrow of survivors and relatives of the dead. By midday, firefighters had pulled 128 charred bodies from the Airbus A320 that was carrying 186 people when it skidded off a rain-soaked runway late last night.

  • Evidence in O'Reilly trial concluded

    21:18 The Central Criminal Court judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly has told the jury that the evidence in the case has concluded.

  • LRC aims to avert eircom service threat

    18:24 Eircom customers could soon face service disruption if last-ditch talks at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) today fail to avert industrial action in an dispute over pay.

  • ESB claims rules are preventing price cuts

    15:58 The current tariff regulations in the electricity market are preventing the ESB from passing on cheaper costs in form of lower prices to consumers, the group's chairman said today.
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