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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern meeting members of the Saudi Arabian Council of Ministers in the Riyadh residence of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz at the start of an Irish trade mission to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern meeting members of the Saudi Arabian Council of Ministers in the Riyadh residence of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz at the start of an Irish trade mission to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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  • State may agree to share data on Irish citizens

    EU: The Government is expected to sign up to a proposal that would give EU police forces access to personal information on Irish citizens held on national databases. p

  • EU treaty criticised by one of founding architects

    EU: Berlin's attempt to revive the European constitutional treaty has started badly with a leading figure in the treaty's creation saying it would create an EU that endangered parliamentary democracy. p

  • Abbas rules out temporary Palestinian borders

    Palestinian protesters dressed as Native Americans take part in a demonstration against US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice at the Hawara checkpoint just outside the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday. Middle East: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas yesterday categorically ruled out the idea of a Palestinian state within temporary borders, telling US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in Ramallah that he opposed provisional agreements and was "ready for end-game negotiations". p

  • Sarkozy makes his ambition clear

    France: Some 50,000 people gathered yesterday to hear Nicolas Sarkozy tell them why he wants to be French president, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris. p
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  • EirGrid raises issue of national grid ownership

    The ownership of the national grid could be passed from ESB Group to EirGrid and this could lower costs for consumers, a submission to the Government from the grid company suggests. p

  • Trade mission to Saudi Arabia to yield major deals

    Business deals worth €20 million, and possibly well in excess of that figure, are expected from a major Enterprise Ireland trade mission to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week led by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. p

  • Belarus leader warns EU about energy as Russia cuts oil flows

    A man works at PKN Orlens main oil refinery in Plock, Poland. Polish operator Pern confirmed that the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline into Poland was resumed last week, ending a three-day halt. Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday the European Union would be next to feel the sharp edge of Russia's energy policies after Moscow cut oil flows to Belarus, disrupting supplies to Europe. p
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  • Chelsea's powerbrokers agree to call a truce

    SOCCER: Chelsea's powerbrokers have vowed to call a truce on the disputes that have riven the club until the summer, when Jose Mourinho may no longer be in charge. The manager is expected to be allowed to make one or two minor signings before the end of the transfer window, thus cooling the damaging internecine conflicts of recent weeks. p

  • Stage set for one of those epics

    Marcus Horan scores Munsters opening try in their 30-27 win over Bourgoin in their European Cup match in Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday. RUGBY: Munster duly followed Leinster into the quarter-finals of the Heineken European Cup, but, on a sun-kissed afternoon under the snow-peaked Swiss Alps, they contrived to make desperately heavy weather of it. Their 30-27 win over Bourgoin in Geneva will rank as possibly the most madcap, frenetic and fluctuating encounter they've had in the competition. p

  • Beckham likely to head west a bit early

    David Beckham is likely to be heading for the US ahead of schedule after Real Madrid's coach Fabio Capello insisted the Englishman would not play another game for the club. p
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  • The pioneering priest

    Separating fact from folklore: playwright Sean McCarthy with Malcolm Adams, who plays Fr Mathew at the Half Moon Theatre, Cork. Fr Mathew seems an unlikely subject for a play. How does the temperance campaigner shape up in today's world, asks Brian O'Connell . p
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  • New labels hit a red light

    Britain's food labelling war escalated last week when food manufacturers opposed to the introduction of a traffic light system to indicate a product's nutritional value launched a joint TV advertising campaign aimed at promoting an alternate consumer packaging guide. p
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