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Maud Ní Riordain (right) is welcomed home yesterday by her sister Zoe at Dublin airport after spending six months in New York. She was one of some 230,000 passengers expected to have passed through the airport in the four days to Christmas.
Photograph: Alan Betson
Tribunal raises new £5,000 sum lodged by Taoiseach
A new amount of money lodged by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in the early 1990s was raised yesterday at the Mahon tribunal. Colm Keena and Fiona Gartland report.Revenue Commissioners examine Google's tax affairs
The Revenue Commissioners are examining the tax affairs of Google, the corporation behind the eponymous internet search engine, write Colm Keena and John McManus .Threat of industrial action at Aer Lingus averted
The threat of industrial action at Aer Lingus appears to have receded following agreement between management and unions in securing cost savings of about €10 million. Martin Wall , Industry Correspondent, reports.
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Omagh jailing now unlikely, says PSNI chief
The PSNI chief constable has admitted it is now "highly unlikely" that anyone will be jailed for murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing. pDunnes guilty of copying label's designs
A UK clothing company has won its High Court action alleging
that Dunnes Stores breached European regulations by copying a
woman's shirt and top. Dunnes will now have to account to the Karen
Millen chain for profits made on sales of the copy garments, which
were sold through its Savida range. pGardaí search for missing man in Laois
Gardaí with sniffer dogs have searched a six-acre site in Co Laois as part of their investigation into the disappearance in April of a man who had been working and living in the midlands. Conor Lally , Crime Correspondent, reports. pInspector's report says prisons a 'failure'
The Prison Service is a "disastrous failure" which "practically guarantees" that young people will follow a life of crime when they are released back into society, the inspector of prisons report has concluded. Ronan McGreevy reports. pChances of a white Christmas unlikely - Met office
Hundreds of thousands of passengers travelling home for
Christmas via land, sea and air this weekend will not be rewarded
with a white Christmas, according to Met Éireann
. John Downes reports. pWarm funeral tributes for dean of Christ Church
Dean Desmond Harman "epitomised the very best in the life and ministry of our church", the congregation at his funeral in Dublin's Christ Church Cathedral was told yesterday. The Church of Ireland mourned "the untimely passing of someone of whom we can be rightly proud", said Archdeacon Edgar Swann. pHealth service jobs freeze to be lifted
The recruitment freeze in the health service will be lifted at the end of the month, Health Service Executive (HSE) management told unions yesterday. Martin Wall and Eithne Donnellan reports. pLong struggle for justice exhausts Sophie's parents
For the first time since their daughter Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered 11 years ago, Marguerite and Georges Bouniol will not visit the scene of the crime this December. pRise in consumers turning to fish for Christmas dinner
The current high price of "big birds" and the rising number of "new Irish" is fuelling an unprecedented demand for fish, including freshwater carp, this Christmas. p
Finance
Lynn plan to control companies by bearer shares
Solicitor Michael Lynn was reorganising the corporate structure
behind his European property companies when the Law Society
launched its investigation into his legal practice and property
dealings in September, according to sources who had dealings with
the solicitor.
Simon Carswell , Finance Correspondent,
reports. pFive firms bid to construct €300m power link
A world leader in nuclear technology is one of five multi-nationals bidding to build a €300 million power link between Ireland and Britain. Barry O'Halloran reports. pDunne loses DDDA records case
Property developer Seán Dunne has lost a High Court bid to compel the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) to provide him with certain documents for his legal challenge relating to a €200 million development on the city's north quays. p23,000 work in Dublin docklands
An estimated 23,000 people now work in Dublin's docklands, according to the authority responsible for developing the area. Barry O'Halloran reports. p
World
US anti-immigrant candidate drops out
US: Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo,
who campaigned on the single issue of illegal immigration, has
dropped out of the race and thrown his support behind former
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. pKarimov looks set to win Uzbek election
UZBEKISTAN: Uzbekistan votes in a presidential election tomorrow, but few people in the Central Asian state or further afield have any doubt about who will win. pMbeki says he will serve his fulll term
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's President yesterday
insisted he saw no reason why his government would not serve its
full term. And he admitted the African National Congress (ANC) has
no contingency plan for dealing with the possible conviction of its
new leader Jacob Zuma for fraud. p
Sport
United eye Manucho
SOCCER: Alex Ferguson is set to limit his January recruitment campaign to one African striker, Manucho Goncalves, after ruling out another move for former Celtic star Henrik Larsson. pArsenal face the might of Milan
SOCCER: The true cost of Arsenal and Liverpool's
failure to win their qualifying groups became apparent in Nyon
yesterday when the Champions League draw gave both Premier League
clubs daunting trips to San Siro. Arsenal will face the holders, AC
Milan, and Liverpool must overcome Internazionale in the first
knockout phase of the European Cup. pCullen happy to be bringing it all back home
RUGBY/European Cup: Johnny Watterson talks to
Leinster secondrow Leo Cullen, who despite his side's recent
setbacks believes the province is moving forward p
