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Maeve McCarthy (18) from Co Meath, at Waterstones bookstore in Dublin where she was in the queue last night for the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Photograph: Haydn West
Millions of Muggles now know fate of Harry
The sign outside Easons in O'Connell Street asked the question that all Harry Potter fans have been pondering: "Will Harry Live?"
66 patients may be tested after HIV dental disclosure
Some 66 patients, most of them children, are being recalled for blood tests by the Health Service Executive (HSE) after a dentist who treated them tested positive for HIV.Jury now decides after 20 days of evidence
After 20 days of evidence, the jury in the Rachel O'Reilly murder trial at the Central Criminal Court retired yesterday afternoon to consider their verdict.
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Siptu rejects decision to close food plants with 106 job losses
Siptu has described the decision to close Premier Foods' operations in Dublin and Tipperary as "unacceptable" and said it will oppose plans to make more than 100 workers redundant. pBlackmail couple targeted parish priest
A parish priest whom a couple tried to blackmail by claiming they had a videotape of him in a sexually compromising situation was commended by a judge yesterday for his courage in going to the Garda to put a stop to the extortion demands. pLabour seen as whingers, says Howlin
Labour would have performed better in the general election if it had embarked on an independent strategy instead of forming an alliance with Fine Gael, the party's justice spokesman Brendan Howlin said yesterday. pBank has no record of sale, tribunal hears
Mahon tribunal: Bank records do not support a statement by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, that he believed he bought stg£30,000 at AIB O'Connell Street, Dublin, in the first half of 1995, the tribunal heard. pBad summers happened before without help of greenhouse gases
The current terrible summer is not part of a trend, writes
Brendan McWilliams pRape cases in court increased by 30% last year
The number of rape and sexual assault cases heard by the Central Criminal Court increased by more than 30 per cent last year while murder cases fell by 6 per cent, according to the annual report of the Courts Service. pBig surge in Lotto ticket sales ahead of €10m record jackpot
Lottery fever is sweeping the nation and punters have been eagerly snapping up tickets ahead of tonight's record-breaking €10 million jackpot draw. p
World
Pakistan court reinstates chief justice
PAKISTAN: President Pervez Musharraf's grip on
power weakened suddenly yesterday when Pakistan's supreme court
ruled that his suspension of the chief justice was illegal and
ordered an immediate reinstatement. pPrisoner release designed to boost Abbas
MIDDLE EAST: Israel released 255 Palestinian
prisoners yesterday, most of them members of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah
movement, in a move aimed at strengthening the Palestinian
president in his showdown with Hamas, which last month seized
control of the Gaza Strip pBlair in clear over 'cash for honours'
BRITAIN: The summer depression enveloped David Cameron's Conservatives yesterday as prime minister Gordon Brown passed his first byelection tests and saw the Liberal Democrats push the Tories into third place in Sedgefield and Ealing. pPope pained by 'devastating scale' of clerical sex abuse in US, says cardinal
VATICAN: In a highly unusual news conference, held to mark his first year in office as the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone this week said Pope Benedict XVI was pained by the "devastating scale" of clerical sex abuse in the archdiocese of Los Angeles. p
News Features
Human crisis or welfare tourism?
The Roma family living in squalor beside the M50 in Ballymun say
their life is better here than at home, but the authorities are
sceptical, writes
Alison Healy . pPutting a damper on Galway tourism
Will the contaminated water alert stop people heading west for the festival and the races, asks Lorna Siggins , Western Correspondent. p
Finance
VHI had record €70.3m surplus last year
VHI Healthcare, the State-owned health insurer, has reported a record surplus of €70.3 million for the year to the end of February. pSmyth to pay €320m for Quinlan stake in Square shopping centre
Property developer Noel Smyth has agreed to pay €320 million for Quinlan Private's major stake in the Square shopping centre in Tallaght, Co Dublin. pAssets of national pension fund increase by 4.9%
The value of assets within the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) grew by 4.9 per cent in the second quarter on 2007. p
Sport
Hurling postponement gets unanimous support
GAELIC GAMES: The GAA's decision to postpone the triple bill of All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals scheduled for Croke Park tomorrow has been backed by all the participating counties. pGarcia can prove he's no longer The Kid
GOLF/British Open : Time after time in the past,
whenever destiny called, Sergio Garcia refused to listen. Now, he
is older and, maybe, wiser. p
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