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Photograph: Patrick Browne jnr
Spanish socialists celebrate election triumph
SPAIN'S SOCIALISTS celebrated election victory last night with jubilant scenes on the streets outside their party headquarters in Madrid.Rejection of tower may make Ballsbridge plan unviable
DUBLIN CITY Council's decision to drop a 37-storey residential tower and an office block from developer Seán Dunne's plan to redevelop the Jurys and Berkeley Court sites in Ballsbridge has called into question the scheme's viability.Call for review of up to 1,000 rejected asylum applications
THE REFUGEE Legal Service, which represents the majority of asylum seekers, has asked the Refugee Appeals Tribunal to review all cases decided by barrister Jim Nicholson.
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Murdered man may have been shot in act of revenge
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the fatal shooting of a man on
Saturday night believe the victim was a significant drug dealer and
are investigating possible links between his killing and two other
gangland murders. pPlan to build motorway service stations
THE NATIONAL Roads Authority (NRA) will this week lodge planning applications to build three service stations on two of the country's busiest motorways - the first of 12 to be built. pThousands of Irish racing fans descendon Cheltenham
THE GREENING of Cheltenham begins today when the first of an estimated 10,000 Irish racing fans head for the spa town which is home to the biggest National Hunt racing festival on these islands. pGarda watchdog issues appeal over death of child (7)
THE GARDA Ombudsman Commission has appealed for motorists who may have witnessed a road traffic incident in which a seven-year-old boy was killed near Finglas village, Dublin, to come forward. pImmigration office targeted
GARDAÍ ARE investigating an attack at the offices of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service on Burgh Quay, Dublin, in the early hours of yesterday morning. One attacker broke all of the panes of glass on the facade of the building. pCurbs to be put on private waste firms operating in Dublin area
TENS OF thousands of households in Dublin can expect to pay more for their rubbish collections following a decision by the capital's four local authorities to end private operators' freedom to operate anywhere they like in the city. pFirst whale in 20 years washes up in Bundoran
A SEVEN-metre (23 ft) dead whale was washed ashore yesterday on
the main beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal. pTara protesters in for long haul
PROTESTERS AT Rath Lugh, a small hill near Tara, say they can
hold out for months in a series of tunnels they have dug into a
hillside to try and stop construction of the M3 motorway. pSex offenders 'least likely' group to reoffend
SEX OFFENDERS are the least likely group of prisoners to reoffend, according to recent research, which found that the group most likely to end back behind bars were fine defaulters. pMan held after mother of five dies from stab wounds in Kilkenny
A MURDER investigation is expected to be launched today after a woman died in hospital from multiple stab wounds. p
Finance
Removal of Payzone executives likely
PAYZONE CHIEF John Nagle and finance director John Williamson are likely to be deposed from the board of the electronic payments and cash machine company when shareholders gather in Dublin today for an egm. pLondon fund may purchase 25% stake in Choice Hotels
CHOICE HOTELS, the privately held operator of the four-star
Clarion chain, is in advanced talks to sell a stake of about 25 per
cent in the firm to a London-based private equity fund for
€25 million. p
World
Olmert gives green light for 530 settler homes
MIDDLE EAST: ISRAEL'S PRIME minister Ehud Olmert
embraced the right-wing settler movement yesterday by saying he
shared their pain in the wake of last week's killings at a Jewish
religious school and by approving 530 new settler homes in the West
Bank. pVoting under the shadow of terror
SPAIN: The suspected Eta murder of a politician has
focused minds on democratic values. pWyoming victory restores Obama impetus
UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA has won a resounding
victory over Hillary Clinton in Wyoming, helping to restore his
campaign's momentum after a punishing week of primary reversals and
the resignation of foreign policy adviser Samantha Power. p
Sport
Sad, sore and running on empty
Rugby THE COACH with the Midas touch has swiftly
delivered a Triple Crown and, one suspects, there's more to
follow. pDublin's sharpness brings Cork up to speed
GAA/Cork 3-18 Dublin 2-16 THE CORK hurlers returned
from their league exile yesterday, and they huffed and they puffed,
and then they blew Dublin away. It wasn't quite as straightforward
as that but you can't beat a nursery rhyme intro. p
