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Bertie Ahern with his eight-month old grandsons, Rocco (left) and Jay Byrne, sons of the Taoiseach's daughter Georgina and Westlife singer Nicky Byrne, on Christmas Eve.

Bertie Ahern with his eight-month old grandsons, Rocco (left) and Jay Byrne, sons of the Taoiseach's daughter Georgina and Westlife singer Nicky Byrne, on Christmas Eve.


Photograph: Kate Geraghty
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  • Landslides and floods kill up to 81 in Indonesia

    Indonesian soldiers and villagers dig into mud to search for landslide victims in Karang Anyar district near Solo, Indonesia's Central Java province, yesterday. Torrential rain in the region prompted landslides and floods. INDONESIA: Landslides and floods caused by torrential rains have left up to 81 people dead or missing in Indonesia's Central Java province, police and rescue officials said yesterday. p

  • Expulsion threat for Irish official in Afghanistan

    AFGHANISTAN: UN officials were last night working to prevent the expulsion from Afghanistan of two senior western diplomats who have been accused of holding illegal talks with Taliban leaders in the British theatre of operations in the southern province of Helmand. p

  • French aid workers get eight years' hard labour

    Members of humanitarian group Zoe's Ark, Eric Breteau and Emilie Lelouch, are taken from the court in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, after their sentence was announced. CHAD: Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years' hard labour yesterday for trying to kidnap more than 100 children from Chad, claiming they were Darfur war orphans. p

  • Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, dies at age 82

    CANADA: Oscar Peterson, whose technical virtuosity, imaginative improvising and ineffable sense of swing made him one of the jazz world's most influential and honoured pianists, died on Sunday. He was 82. p
IrelandBack to Top

  • Migrants face three-year wait for citizenship

    A backlog of naturalisation applications means migrants seeking Irish citizenship must wait almost three years for a decision, according to figures released by the Department of Justice. p

  • Meath stag hunt goes ahead without hounds

    A stag is released for the Ward Union Hunt at Bellewstown, Co Meath, yesterday. Following four months of speculation and accusation, more than 100 huntsmen and women saddled up in Co Meath yesterday for a greatly changed annual Ward Union stag hunt. p

  • Baby may get transfusion despite parents' objections

    A premature baby must be given a life-saving blood transfusion despite the religious objections of its parents, the High Court ruled at a special sitting on Christmas Eve. p

  • Island policies must support sustainable communities - study

    The EU's "one size fits all" approach does not suit island economies dependent on marine activities, according to a new policy document published by the Irish Islands Federation, Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann. p

  • Electronic tagging of sheep in EU by 2009

    Every sheep and goat in the EU will have to be implanted with an electronic microchip by the end of 2009. p

  • Less money bet as punters show they have limits

    Bono and wife Ali Hewson arriving at the Leopardstown races yesterday. The U2 frontman signed autographs and said he had enjoyed Christmas because "nothing happened" The sky was the limit at Leopardstown races yesterday. Bono, the most famous punter at the south Dublin meeting, has long known the adulation of fans among the pantheon of rock stars. He willingly signed autographs, the famous head clearly far removed from clouds of fame. p

  • Harney urged to restrict tobacco adverts in shops

    The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) has called on Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney to severely restrict tobacco advertising in shops and other retail outlets. The union said point-of-sale advertising was a contributory factor in influencing children to start and continue smoking. p

  • Catholic Church 'cannot teach what is wrong in itself'

    To be a Catholic "involves accepting that the Church cannot teach what is wrong in itself", a leading Irish theologian has claimed. p
FinanceBack to Top

  • US spending growth at lowest in five years

    Shoppers in Selfridges Oxford Street store in central London, where their Christmas sale started yesterday morning. Last-minute purchases over the pre-Christmas weekend failed to salvage what may be the slowest- growing US festive spending season in five years. p

  • Crude oil rises to over $96 a barrel

    Crude oil rose above $96 a barrel in New York yesterday on speculation a US Energy Department report today will show that US inventories fell for a sixth week. p

  • Babcock chief calls for splitting of Eircom

    Separating Eircom into two parts is the only way that the Republic can have a "properly functioning" telecom industry, a senior Babcock & Brown executive said at the weekend. p
SportBack to Top

  • Clinical United show no mercy

    Cristiano Ronaldo curls a free kick over the wall and into the Sunderland net during Manchester United's dismantling of Roy Keane's struggling side during yesterday's English Premier League match at the Stadium of Light. SOCCER/Sunderland 0 Manchester Utd 4: Alex Ferguson does not really do sympathy, but there seemed a look of genuine concern in the Manchester United manager's eyes as he put an arm around Roy Keane at the final whistle. With the visiting fans, somewhat insensitively, chorusing "Keano, Keano, give us a wave", Ferguson treated United's former captain to, by his brusque standards, a warm embrace. p

  • Domestic bliss for McNamara

    RACING: Ireland's champion jockey Ruby Walsh secured a memorable King George VI victory on Kauto Star in Kempton yesterday but at Leopardstown's famous St Stephen's Day fixture it was his young colleague Andrew McNamara who brought some Christmas joy to home punters. p

  • NFL fans face blackout on historic night

    America at Large: If a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Even though events of the past weekend conspired to rob it of any lingering play-off significance, next Saturday night's football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants remains fraught with historical significance. It could turn out to be the most important game hardly anyone saw. p
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  • My Cultural Year 1

    Kathy Kiera Clare in Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp A wonderful Lucian Freud show, stirring performances by Stephen Brennan, Catherine Brennan and Alfred Brendel - these are among the 2007 highlights for those involved in the arts. They share their special moments of the year with Catherine Foley p
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  • Cleaning up on crayfish

    A cross-Border initiative has just over a year to find out whether farming crayfish in Ireland is commercially viable, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
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