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Helen McMassor, Ursula Dunphy and Bridie Mahon join protesters from the northwest outside Leinster House in Dublin,yesterday, calling for the retention of cancer services at Sligo General Hospital.
Photograph: Dara Mac Dónail
Executive suspended over €20m loans to solicitors
The scandal involving multimillion-euro loans provided to two Dublin-based solicitors has claimed its first casualty within financial institutions.€3.5bn wiped off shares in 'loveless' Dublin market
More than €3.5 billion was wiped off the value of Irish shares yesterday as the market fell to its lowest level in almost two and a half years.Two bags of mail sent to Four Courts shredded by mistake
The Courts Service has apologised to the public after two bags of mail sent to the Four Courts were shredded by mistake.
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Ahern says solicitors should have independent regulator
Solicitors should have an independent regulator, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil. pConcern at public bodies' data security
Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes has issued a stark warning about the dangers of Irish public bodies suffering the same embarrassment as their counterparts in the UK, where disks containing the personal data of 25 million people have gone missing. pBallsbridge plan amendment to be debated
A new amendment to the Dublin City Development Plan which would reopen the possibility of high-rise apartment buildings in Ballsbridge is to be debated by the city council early next month. pCharles Wesley, hymn and carol composer, features on new stamp
The composer of the Christmas carol
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing , Charles Wesley, is being
celebrated in a new stamp from An Post marking the 300th
anniversary of his birth. pNew minimum standards for tracing
Minimum standards to be followed by all those providing an adoption tracing and information service will be announced today by Minister for Children Brendan Smith. p
Finance
Waterford confirms 490 jobs to be cut at plant
Manufacturers in Germany and eastern Europe are likely to benefit from Waterford Crystal's decision to cut production at its Irish plant with the loss of 490 jobs. pPensions lost €9bn since June - Mercer
Irish pension funds have lost €9 billion in value since the end of June as investors have fled stock markets, according to Mercer investment consultants. p
World
Leaders of 16 Asian states sign pact on climate change
Asia: Leaders of 16 Asian countries, including top polluters China and Japan, yesterday agreed to a vague pact on climate change as they tried to put aside discord over Burma's suppression of democracy protests. pAbbas to urge Arab states to attend summit
Middle East: Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian
president, is to urge Arab states to turn up in large numbers at
next week's Annapolis summit in the US to relaunch peace talks with
Israel, telling Syria and Saudi Arabia that their own and
Palestinian interests will be served by their presence. p
Sport
Croatia break English hearts
SOCCER Euro 2008 Qualifier: England 2 Croatia 3 A
spectacle can never replace a spot at Euro 2008. This uncanny
defeat, in which England rallied from 2-0 down to be level briefly,
was far too exhilarating before despondency took command. pDuffy named director general
The GAA last night confirmed Paraic Duffy as successor to Liam
Mulvihill as director general. Duffy, a native of Scotstown in
Monaghan, was ratified by the GAA's Management Committee and will
take office from February 1st of next year, and hold the position
for seven-years. pCork face second players' strike
Cork GAA has found itself confronting its second players' strike
in the space of five years following the county board's decision to
stick with the new rule preventing intercounty managers from
choosing their own backroom teams. It promises to be another tense
stand-off, just like the previous strike of 2002. p
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