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Mr Brendan Menton, general secretary of the FAI, at the press conference in Dublin last night where he announced his resignation. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Major projects to be shelved in spending squeeze
The Government is to defer ambitious capital building plans and substantially squeeze current spending in an attempt to cut next year's increase in public spending to below 8 per cent.Genesis report leads to Menton exodus
The nabobs of the Football Association of Ireland yesterday received the report concerning what they did on their summer holidays, writes Tom Humphries.City councillors secure reprieve for trees on O'Connell Street
The O'Connell Street trees have been granted a temporary reprieve after Dublin city councillors unanimously supported an emergency motion on the issue yesterday.
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Abbott expansion set to create 700 jobs
US healthcare company Abbott Laboratories will create 700 jobs in Galway and Cavan over the coming five years, it was announced yesterday. pVodafone rises 13% on results
Shares in Vodafone increased in value by almost 13 per cent yesterday on publication of better- than-expected half-year results which show a strong rise in earnings and revenues at the company. p'Income gap not affected by boom'
The relative income gap between the top and bottom earners did not widen during the economic boom, according to figures made public yesterday. p
Ireland
Exam marking system to become tighter
The Department of Education is to tighten marking procedures for the Leaving and Junior Cert exams after controversy in two subjects last year. pMansergh says FF blamed RTE for 1989 result
Decisions in the late 1980s of then communications minister Mr Ray Burke favouring Century Radio over RTÉ arose from Fianna Fáil's antipathy to RTÉ as well as from financial contributions, according to the Taoiseach's former adviser, Dr Martin Mansergh. pTribunal hears of garda claim that interviewee beat himself up
A garda claimed that Mr Frank McBrearty jnr beat himself up while in custody in February 1997, the Morris tribunal heard yesterday. pConcern over registration of foreign medics
Concern among medical regulatory authorities that doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and other health professionals from abroad could come and work in Ireland without registration under new EU rules are to be conveyed to officials in Brussels by the Tánaiste tomorrow. pDispute over storage of 'BSE-risk' tallow
The directors of a company which manufactures products entering the food chain were shattered to discover they were storing allegedly hazardous material derived from those parts of cattle believed most likely to carry the risk of the BSE virus, the High Court was told yesterday. pFishermen criticise Fischler response
Fishermen in the south-west have lifted their ban on foreign vessels landing into port, but have warned of further action over the coming weeks in defence of the Irish Box. pPoor living in fear in their own communities, report finds
Many poor families are living in fear of people in their own communities, with both children and adults being bullied and picked upon, according to a new study. p
World
Bin Laden praises recent attacks
A Qatar-based television station has broadcast what it says is the voice of Osama bin Laden praising recent anti-Western attacks in Bali, Kuwait and Yemen, and last month's hostage-taking in Moscow. pIsraeli troops raid refugee camp as US envoy arrives
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli troops and armoured vehicles raided the West Bank city of Tul Karm and its adjacent refugee camp early yesterday, in response to an attack by a Palestinian gunman on a kibbutz in northern Israel on Sunday in which five people were killed. pHunt for bishop kidnapped in Colombia
COLOMBIA: Colombian troops launched a major hunt yesterday to rescue a senior Roman Catholic bishop who was kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels. The Church finds itself once again in the crossfire of the country's 38-year war. pImmigrants in Calais chapel given deadline
FRANCE: The French Interior Minister, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday gave 100 Kurdish immigrants occupying a sailors' chapel in Calais an ultimatum to leave within 24 hours or face removal. pParliament leaves final decision on resolution to Saddam
IRAQ: Iraq's parliament has voted unanimously to reject the key UN resolution demanding the country's disarmament but has left the final decision to President Saddam Hussein. p
Sport
Dublin event awaits sanction
TENNIS: Despite the large-scale imagination and attractiveness of the star-laden RDS tennis event, which starts on December 5th and involves six of the top 10 players in the world, the competition still has to get the support of the governing body of tennis in this country, Tennis Ireland. p
