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Patricia Coyne and Bridget McCann, from Inishbofin island, savour the sunshine in Clifden, Co Galway, yesterday where a €4.9 million State investment in the Clifden airport site was announced.
Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
UN climate summit tells leaders how to save planet
Governments worldwide now have no option but to "get on with the job" of tackling global warming after the UN's top scientific body delivered a "road map for keeping the planet safe", environmentalists said here yesterday.
PDs get extra details on Taoiseach's finances
The Progressive Democrats have secured extra information about Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's personal finances which has raised serious questions about the PDs' future in the outgoing Government.Mahon queries Taoiseach's foreign exchange lodgments
The Mahon tribunal has queried a number of foreign exchange transactions involving the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in the early 1990s.
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Ireland
HSE chief considers 'docking' salaries of nurses
Up to 40,000 nurses who have been engaged in a work-to-rule for more than four weeks face having about 13 per cent of their pay deducted under proposals to be considered by health service management on Tuesday. pHSE sought to deny pregnant girl a passport
The HSE contacted the passport office to stop the issuing of a passport to the pregnant 17-year-old at the centre of the latest abortion controversy, the High Court heard yesterday. pCab seizes €4.5m of US insurance fraudster's assets
The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has secured a High Court order
freezing property and cash valued at almost €4.5 million
belonging to an American man who was behind a $24 million insurance
fraud. pMan gets life sentence for attempted murder
A Dublin man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for
attempted murder after he shot a man in the head at the Leisureplex
in Dublin's Blanchardstown. p
World
SNP becomes largest party in Scottish poll
Britain: Nationalists committed to independence became the biggest party in the Scottish parliament yesterday in elections which left a political headache for prime minister Tony Blair's successor. pSarkozy on course to take French presidency
France: France appears likely to elect the
right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy as president tomorrow. pPressure mounts on political elite over emissions
Climate change : UN panel on climate change reveals
range of options to ensure greenhouse gases peak by 2015: pQuestions about Brown succession after losses
Britain: Blairites will ask if Gordon Brown can connect with Middle England, writes Frank Millar , London Editor. p
Finance
Irish Glass site conflict of interest raised
The public ethics watchdog is likely to seek "observations" from
Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) chairman Lar Bradshaw
and director Seán FitzPatrick about the authority's
involvement in the group that bought the Irish Glass Bottle site in
Ringsend for €412 million. pSmurfit plant closes with loss of 140 jobs
Paper and packaging giant Smurfit Kappa has announced the closure of its carton-manufacturing plant in Coolock with the loss of 140 jobs. p
Sport
Name of game is winning
SOCCER/Manchester City v Manchester Utd: If
everything goes according to plan for Alex Ferguson, Manchester
United may be confirmed as champions tomorrow evening. But there
will be no party at Fairfields, the house he has named after the
Govan shipyard where his father worked. "I will be abroad," the
manager reported, and the first he will hear about how Chelsea have
done at Arsenal will be via text messages on his mobile. pLeinster to sign off in style
RUGBY/Leinster v Borders Reivers: By the time Leinster take the field at Donnybrook tonight, they'll be better versed into how their Magners Celtic League title aspirations rest following the matches in Hughenden last night and at Stradey Park this afternoon. pGood vision to put us in the picture
RTÉ's television deal with the GAA works out well for both parties, Seán Moran finds out why p
Opinion
Consensus over disabled baby's fate a worry
Ireland has certainly changed. Recently, I was listening to a radio programme that had just covered the very upsetting case of the 17-year-old girl who is carrying a child with anencephaly, and who is seeking an abortion. After an ad break, the comments from listeners concerned the nuisance value of election posters. pAhern must take the blame for FF tripping itself up
Even if Bertie Ahern felt he had to call the election over a weekend rather than on a Dáil sitting day it could - and should - all have been done so differently. pSociety must show political will to stabilise emissions
The main message from the latest United Nations report on climate change is that the worst effects of global warming can be avoided if remedial action is taken soon, writes Frank McDonald , Environment Editor, in Bangkok p
News Features
'We're on a road, and we're not going to turn back'
On Tuesday, history will be made when Dr Ian Paisley assumes the
leadership of a power-sharing Northern Executive with Sinn
Féin as his principal partner. It will work - so long as
people don't expect too much at the start, he tells
Frank Millar , London Editor. pSpinning out of control
The ideal election for party handlers is one they prepared
earlier - but it looks as if some are not getting their way this
time, writes
Fintan O'Toole . p
