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Members of the Kilkenny Gospel Choir with Carrie Crowley at Dublin Castle for the launch of their CD, Someone's Prayin' for You, which was launched in conjunction with the Irish Cancer Society's Daffodil Day yesterday.
Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Patients waiting up to 18 months for crucial cancer tests
PUBLIC PATIENTS can be waiting up to a year and a half for crucial tests to determine if they are suffering from conditions such as bowel cancer, according to new figures. Eithne Donnellan , Health Correspondent, reports.McGuinness forecasts 'battle' to secure transfer of police powers
EVERY STEP Sinn Féin took brought it closer to its "central and most urgent" goal of a 32-county republic, the North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told the opening night of his party's ardfheis Dublin last night. Deaglán De Bréadún , Political Correspondent, reports.Heaney claims motorway near Tara desecrates sacred landscape
POET AND Nobel laureate Séamus Heaney has described the M3 motorway as a ruthless desecration of the sacred landscape around the Hill of Tara, in a BBC documentary to be broadcast today at 11.30am on Radio Ulster, writes Frank McDonald , Environment Editor
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Two children killed as lorry and car collide in Kildare
A seven-year-old boy and his eight-year-old sister were killed following a road crash in Co Kildare yesterday morning. pPolish men may have been killed by two assailants
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the murder of two Polish men in Dublin now believe the victims may have died at the hands of two different killers. Conor Lally , Crime Correspondent, reports. pEx-FF TD apologises for not disclosing meetings
MAHON TRIBUNAL: FORMER FIANNA Fáil TD Marian
McGennis apologised to the tribunal yesterday for not disclosing
meetings she had with Owen O'Callaghan, Frank Dunlop, Ambrose Kelly
and Liam Lawlor, when initially queried in correspondence as to
whether she had met them. pCall to halt rezoning in Dún Laoghaire area
SENIOR PLANNERS in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown have urged councillors not to rezone any more land in the county until after 2019, a move likely to be unpopular among developers, landowners and those seeking to buy houses in the area. pChanel back on the merry-go-round
THE SETTING for the Chanel autumn/winter show in the Grand Palais yesterday was a huge burnished carousel in which blown-up versions of familiar Chanel icons such as the tweed jacket, the quilted bag and interlocking CCs replaced the usual parade horses. pUnionist says collusion must be tackled
SINN FÉIN ARDFHEIS: RAYMOND McCORD, the first
unionist to address a Sinn Féin ardfheis, was warmly applauded
last night when he told delegates there must be "no surrender to
collusion". pTaoiseach's brothers defend his evidence to Mahon tribunal
THE TWO brothers of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern have strongly defended his evidence to the planning tribunal and have predicted he will stay on as leader until 2011. pGormley gives green awards to 20 schools
GREEN FLAGS, used to recognise environmental achievements, have been awarded to 20 primary schools in Co Dublin and Co Laois by Minister for the Environment John Gormley. pGlimpse into the past for citizens of 2108
WILL PEOPLE still play hurling in Ireland a hundred years from
now? Will they still read newspapers, use euro coins, watch DVDs,
need mobile phones or heat their homes with oil? p
Finance
Figures show mortgage lending 'subdued'
Growth in mortgage lending fell to the lowest pace in nearly 14 years last month, as weaknesses in the housing market continued. pFás career exhibition to include exhibitors from eastern Europe
UP TO 100,000 people are expected to descend upon Croke Park
over four days to attend the 14th annual Fás Opportunities
career exhibition. The exhibition will include, for the first time,
a significant number of exhibitors from eastern European countries,
writes
Nigel Stirling . pGCap media rejects £333m offer by rival Global Radio
THE UK'S largest commercial radio group, GCap Media, yesterday rejected an improved offer of £333 million from rival Global Radio, which is backed by a number of wealthy Irish businessman, including JP McManus, John Magnier, Dermot Desmond and Denis Brosnan. Ciarán Hancock , Business Affairs Correspondent, reports. p
World
Clinton steps up ad wars as poll lead evaporates
US: HILLARY CLINTON has turned up the heat on
Barack Obama ahead of next Tuesday's primaries in Texas and Ohio
with a television ad that mimics scare messages used by Lyndon
Johnson against Barry Goldwater and by Walter Mondale against Gary
Hart. pGazprom's tower to soar over city of Peter the Great
RUSSIA: If historic St Petersburg is an enduring
monument to the western tastes and vaulting ambition of its
creator, Peter the Great, then the latest makeover of Russia's
second city is testament to the political and financial power of
President Vladimir Putin. pMinistry pulls Prince Harry out of combat zone
BRITAIN: Prince Harry's war in Afghanistan has came to an abrupt end following worldwide media coverage of his secret deployment there which was deemed to compromise his security and that of others serving alongside him. p
Sport
Tardelli set to get the ball rolling
SOCCER: Marco Tardelli will become the first of
member of the new Irish senior management team to get to work next
weekend when he travels to England in order to start the process of
seeing at first hand the pool of talent available for the
forthcoming World Cup qualifying campaign. pLeinster bring true grit on slippy road
RUGBY/Magners League/Connacht 10 Leinster 16 : The away dressing-room echoed to the sound of Dublin In The Rare Oul Times, which showed both how much this win meant to Leinster and how hard they had to work for it. It was a rare oul battle too, like a step back in time to the interpro days in the Wild West, when traditionally Leinster were sometimes seen as a soft touch. pIt's nothing personal, only it is
Ireland v Wales: Wales are going for the Grand Slam next Saturday, but there's a little more than that at stake pIrish running could do with crazy genius like Cerutty
ATHLETICS: A visit to one greatly loved sage inspires fond ruminations on the life and extraordinary achievements of another p
