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The model Yasmin Le Bon and Irish rugby international Ronan O'Gara, fresh from Munster' defeat at Thomond Park on Saturday evening, launched a new range of jewellery designs from the Newbridge Silverware Collection at the Showcase Trade Fair in the RDS in Dublin yesterday. One of the largest trade fairs in Europe, buyers from more than 30 countries will visit it over the four days and orders in excess of €42 million are expected to be placed.

Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

€50bn spend to target social inclusion
A €50 billion investment plan to promote social inclusion, aimed primarily at children and older people living in poverty, will be a central element of the Government's National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013 to be announced tomorrow by Minister for Finance Brian Cowen, write Miriam Donohoe and Stephen Collins.
Positive response for Adams on policing
The prospects of Gerry Adams carrying an extraordinary ardfheis on policing in Dublin on Sunday appeared enhanced last night after four public meetings on the issue at the weekend in Northern Ireland generally supported the Sinn Féin leadership strategy, write Gerry Moriarty and Dan Keenan.
SUV resident parking fees set to double in Dublin
Drivers of SUVs (sports utility vehicles) and other big cars are to be charged twice as much for parking outside their own homes as drivers of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, under proposed new Dublin City Council bylaws.

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HSE set to propose private patient increase
Consultants may be allowed to see more than 20% private patients in public hospitals as part of negotiation p
Children's needs not supported - Drumm
The chief executive of the Health Service Executive has said Dublin's children's hospitals did not always act in the best interests of patients in the past. p
Major events planned to mark Flight of the Earls
Flight of the Earls: 1607: The Government plans to announce full details in the coming weeks of a major commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls in 1607, The Irish Times has learned. p
Revenue targets growth in internet shopping
Thousands of internet shoppers have been hit with unexpected charges in a customs crackdown by the Revenue Commissioners. p
Green Party proposes Luas lines for Cork and Galway
The Green Party has proposed new Luas lines for Cork and Galway, an extension of Dublin's light rail system and the fast-tracking of a rail link for Navan if it gets into Government after the next general election. p
Kenny calls for debate on crime with Ahern
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has challenged the Taoiseach to engage in a public debate on crime before the election, which he promised would be the most competitive in 25 years. p
Adams gets his message across on policing
There was a key exchange in the impressive community centre in Galbally, east Tyrone, on Saturday night that indicates that Gerry Adams is winning the policing debate with the republican base. p
Three obstetricians in Neary case guilty of misconduct
The three obstetricians who provided reports in 1998 exonerating the practice of Drogheda obstetrician Dr Michael Neary have been found guilty of professional misconduct. p
Coast guard takes recent challenges in its stride
The ongoing search for seven bodies off the southeast coast has brought into focus the work carried out by the Irish Coast Guard. Gordon Deegan spent time with the Shannon-based coast guard helicopter unit p

World

Clinton ahead in race for president - poll
United States: Hillary Rodham Clinton is far ahead of Barack Obama among Democrats and would narrowly defeat Republican presidential front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, according to a poll published a day after she formally entered the 2008 race. p
Casualties mounting as more US troops arrive
Iraq: The first reinforcements of US troops under the new Bush strategy began to flow into the Baghdad region over the weekend. p
Ship off English coast sheds hazardous cargo
Britain: Police and coast guards sealed off part of southwest England's coast yesterday as dozens of containers, some packed with toxic and hazardous material, spilled from the listing deck of the broken-backed freighter Napoli . p

Finance

Today FM books €2.9m pretax profit for Emap
Today FM, the longest-established national commercial radio station in the Republic, has reported strong profits and improved margins in its first set of results produced entirely under the ownership of UK media giant Emap. p
Brink of deal reached on stalled world trade talks
Trade negotiators from the US and European Union have reached the brink of an agreement that could restart stalled world trade talks, according to people familiar with the discussions. p

Sport

Late starters Arsenal in seventh heaven
Arsenal - 2 Manchester Utd - 1: This Premiership season is baffling its audience with the finesse of a great illusionist. Manchester United, who looked for much of the day as if they had too much know-how for the opposition, were transformed into losers over the closing seven minutes. p
Home instincts desert Munster
Munter 6 Leicester 13: The bottom line is Leicester physically beat Munster up at Thomond Park on Saturday, and it took a lot of hard swallowing. Unrelentingly, unerringly and unforgivingly, the Tigers gave a tacit lesson in how to take on Munster. p
Caffrey's men arrest O'Dwyer's progress
O'Byrne Cup SF semi-final/Dublin 0-15 Wicklow 1-5: There's probably no such thing as a surprise in wind-lashed O'Byrne Cup matches in Aughrim but from an early stage of Saturday's semi-final, before about 4,500, it was apparent Dublin were moving too easily and accurately to end up as the biggest scalp on Mick O'Dwyer's latest belt. p