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Welsh rugby supporters from Swansea getting into the festive mood in Dublin yesterday ahead of today's Six Nations game between Ireland and Wales in Croke Park. The group were also enthusiastic supporters of Daffodil Day.
Photograph: Bryan James Brophy
EU report warns of conflict with Russia over energy issue
A REPORT on security challenges to the EU will bluntly warn the union's summit next week that Europe could face conflict with Russia over access to energy reserves in the Arctic and a dangerous surge in immigration due to the impact of climate change.Unemployment at highest since 1999 as building sector slows
THE SLOWING economy sent the Live Register to an eight-year high in February.Obama's Irish aide quits after calling Clinton a 'monster'
SAMANTHA POWER, Barack Obama's Irish-born foreign policy adviser, has resigned after describing Hillary Clinton as "a monster" in a newspaper interview yesterday.
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Ireland
Man shot dead in gangland-style raid on house
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the fatal shooting of a man in a
gangland-style attack believe he was killed by a former criminal
associate with whom he had clashed. pM3 motorway protesters claim to have entered tunnel under road
CAMPAIGNERS AGAINST the M3 motorway claim they have stepped up their campaign by occupying a tunnel they say they have secretly dug under the proposed route that passes through the Tara Valley in Co Meath. pSecond chemical spill in a week at Cork plant
A SECOND chemical spill at a Cork plant is to be investigated by the Environmental Protection Agency. pHigh Court finds hospital negligent over birth injury
A YOUNG boy would not be severely mentally and physically
disabled except for the "substandard and negligent" management of
his birth at the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street in
Dublin, a High Court judge found yesterday in his judgment on the
State's longest-running birth injury case. pCall for Ministers' resignations over cancer 'failure'
FINE GAEL and Labour will renew their calls for the resignation of Mary Harney or Micheál Martin during a debate in the Dáil next Wednesday following the three reports into breast cancer misdiagnosis at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise. pIreland falls behind as more women enter EU parliaments
Ireland is one of only seven EU countries where the proportion
of women in parliament is below 15 per cent, a European Commission
report has found. pPharmacy gets over €1m in drug scheme payments
A PHARMACY in Co Dublin last year received more than €1 million in fees and mark-up payments from the HSE for dispensing medication under the various community drug schemes, HSE figures released yesterday show. pMeath incinerator plan sparks local anger over health worries
A CROWD estimated at 400 marched to the entrance of north Meath
rendering company College Proteins yesterday in protest at its
plans to build an eight-megawatt biomass combined heat-and-power
plant at Nobber, Co Meath. pDublin council warns of high-tide flooding
FEARS OF flooding will result in the closure of Dublin city's boardwalk and some roads in Sandymount for a time this weekend. pMan gets 4 years for 'Love Ulster' assault on reporter
A MAN who attacked RTÉ reporter Charlie Bird at the 2006
Love Ulster Parade riot has been given a four-year sentence at
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. pAuditor says he never got £80,000 invoices
THE AUDITOR of accounts for one of the companies behind the Quarryvale development has said he was never provided with invoices for three payments totalling £80,000 to lobbyist Frank Dunlop. p
World
Clinton again talks of joint bid with Obama
US: THE RESIGNATION yesterday of Barack Obama's
foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, came as Hillary Clinton
raised for the second time this week the prospect of running on a
joint Democratic ticket with Mr Obama. pParties suspend campaigns after Eta murder
SPAIN: SPAIN'S POLITICAL parties yesterday suspended their election campaigns after an Eta gunman killed a former socialist councillor in the Basque town of Mondragón. p
Sport
Enough needle to fill a haystack
RUGBY: RUMBLE IN the jungle it ain't, not least
because the two main protagonists won't actually be hopping through
the ropes. And thankfully, the preamble has been over two weeks
rather than two months. Today's kick-off can't come soon enough,
though a 1.15pm start is undoubtedly a tad early. By comparison to
the events in Croke Park, you wouldn't pull the curtains open if
BBC's prime time evening slot - Barnsley v Chelsea - was in the
back garden. pRedknapp a believer in the art of the possible
ENGLISH FA CUP: Three ex-players recall how Harry Redknapp inspired wins over today's opponents, Manchester United p
Finance
Microsoft's plan to acquire Yahoo may aid Google
THE INCREASED competition provided by Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo will actually benefit Google, a senior Microsoft executive claimed yesterday. pBT Ireland's main trading firm makes €68m loss
PRE-TAX LOSSES at BT Ireland's main trading company widened to €68 million in the year to the end of March 2007, due to what the directors call "difficult trading conditions". p
