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The new Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Michael Conaghan of the Labour Party, after being elected at City Hall last night being congratulated by his wife, Marian

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Patient found his trolley taken by another after visit to toilet
As more than 150 patients were being accommodated on trolleys in accident and emergency departments of hospitals in the Eastern region yesterday, it emerged that one patient who left a trolley to use the toilet found it taken by another patient on his return. Eithne Donnellan , Health Correspondent, reports

Largest EU party will not accept Ahern's nomination
The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission, writes Denis Staunton in Brussels
Overcharging controversy expected to cost AIB €50m
A foreign exchange fiasco, in which AIB overcharged customers on certain transactions, is now expected to cost the Republic's biggest bank up to €50 million. Siobhán Creaton , Finance Correspondent, reports

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Harney tells FF not to take PDs for granted
The Tánaiste, Ms Harney, has warned that Fianna Fáil should not take the PDs for granted in the wake of the implicit attack on the junior Coalition partner by the Minister for Communications, Mr Dermot Ahern. p
Missing Traveller girl returns home
An 11-year-old girl - who had been missing from her home in Co Cork since Friday night - was reunited with her parents last night. p
Labour reconsiders running candidate for presidency
The Labour Party is reconsidering whether it should run a candidate in a presidential election this autumn. The party leadership feels that a bad performance against the incumbent, Mrs McAleese, could hand Fianna Fáil a much needed morale boost. p
Two men die in car crash in Co Cork
One man was killed and a second man was fatally injured in a collision involving a lorry and two cars on the main Cork-Mallow road about six miles from Cork city early yesterday. p
Ahern for child abuse inquiry next month
The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, will give evidence next month before the investigation committee of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concerning his May 1999 apology to people who were in residential institutions as children. p
Lawyer says Bush could be quizzed here over Iraqi torture
President Bush should be arrested by gardaí when he lands on Irish soil if it emerges in the coming days that he had knowledge of the torture of prisoners in Iraq, according to a leading senior counsel. p
Appointment of more judges sought
The Minister for Justice will ask the Cabinet at its meeting today to authorise the appointment of more judges, The Irish Times has learned. He is doing so in response to the latest report from the courts' Committee on Court Practice and Procedure, chaired by Ms Justice Denham, which is being published today. p
New Cork mayor is brother of Minister
Fianna Fáil councillor Mr Seán Martin was elected Lord Mayor of Cork last night, following a mayoral pact between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour. p
Woman claims abuse at Goldenbridge
A woman has claimed before the High Court that, as a child, she was abused first in Goldenbridge industrial school and then by her father and stepmother after she was wrongly taken from Goldenbridge by him. p
Roads are safer due to penalty points - Brennan
The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, yesterday insisted that the penalty points system was having an effect on road safety despite a spate of recent fatalities. p

Finance

Aer Rianta plan points to 281 job cuts
A new 10-year business plan from Aer Rianta suggests that 281 redundancies may be needed at Shannon Airport, irrespective of the break-up plan favoured by the Minister for Transport, Mr Seamus Brennan. p
Upbeat IBEC says wage hikes won't offset cost of oil
Raising wages to offset higher oil prices would be short-sighted and detrimental, employers' organisation IBEC has warned, writes Edward Power. p
AIB flags growth of 10% as core areas do well
AIB has signalled that its core businesses are performing strongly and that the group is on course to report more than 10 per cent growth in profits this year. p

World

Iranians detain 3 British navy boats and crews
IRAN: Iran detained three British navy vessels and arrested eight British crew members yesterday when the boats entered its territorial waters near the Iraqi border. p
Korean man will be killed if troops do not pull out, say militants
IRAQ: Islamic militants in Iraq threatened to behead a South Korean hostage last night unless his country scrapped plans to send 3,000 more troops - a demand rejected by Seoul. p
Blair hails new EU treaty as British success
EU/BRITAIN: A combative Mr Tony Blair has declared himself and Britain "the big winner" in the negotiation of the new European constitution, and promised a "historic" British debate pitting "reason against prejudice" and "true leadership" against "transient populism", writes Frank Millar, London Editor. p

Sport

Navratilova victory and rain is an old tradition
TENNIS/Wimbledon 2004: A seasonal deluge on day one. The sun departed, the clouds congregated and the temple of tennis was reduced to its most wretched dank bricks and mortar. p
McKiernan to miss Olympics
ATHLETICS: With a small tinge of regret Catherina McKiernan has cut short her quest for a third Olympic experience, abandoning her only chance of qualifying for the 10,000 metres in Athens. p
Rooney illuminates
SOCCER/Croatia - 2 England - 4: Trivia bores, of which the media is full, never tire of telling hapless strangers that the Stadium of Light here in Lisbon is so called not because of its illuminations, but because of it's situation in the suburb of Light, or Luz as those who live here call it. p