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Children walk through the streets of Gort, Co Galway, as part of the St Patrick's Day parade yesterday.
Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
Protests in Tibet spread to bordering Chinese provinces
RIOTING HAS erupted in two provinces neighbouring Tibet over the weekend, two days after violent protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa killed at least 80 people, according to the region's exiled representatives.US Fed expected to cut rates as Bear Stearns bailout defended
THE US Federal Reserve is expected to cut US interest rates again this week in a bid to avert what many now fear may be a severe downturn in the US economy.Lack of social workers puts 650 foster children 'at risk'
SOME 650 children in State care have no dedicated social worker as a result of staff shortages in child protection teams.
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Ahern to hold talks with Bush in Oval Office
TAOISEACH BERTIE Ahern will meet United States president George Bush in the White House today - in one of the last occasions the two men will meet before Mr Bush departs from office next January. pBBC journalists among 11 arrested in Garda inquiry
FOUR BBC journalists were arrested yesterday and a film was seized from them by gardaí investigating paramilitary activity in Co Donegal. pRTÉ to launch Diaspora TV service in UK
A NEW television service aimed at Irish emigrants in Britain will be on air by early next year, it is expected to be announced today. pYouth (17) charged with murder of Polish man in Drimnagh
A 17-YEAR-OLD male has appeared before Dublin District Court
charged with murdering a Polish man in Drimnagh three weeks
ago. pProtester wins reprieve on work at M3 site
THE M3 protester who emerged from the tunnel at Rath Lugh, near Tara, at the weekend, says she had a "whale of time" underground and was pleased to have won a month-long moratorium on work at the site. pSecond man to be charged over €2m heroin seizure in Meath
A 28-YEAR-OLD-MAN is to appear before Dublin District Court this morning charged in connection with the seizure of 10kg of heroin, worth more than €2 million, and €250,000 in cash. pActress urges support for undocumented Irish
AWARD-WINNING actress Fionnula Flanagan has urged Irish-Americans to support immigration reform to protect the undocumented Irish living in the United States. p'I was thinking of what happened to those Polish men. Two guys died'
Victim Cida Jeangros (30) says many migrant workers are living in fear of being attacked on the streets of the capital, writes Carl O'Brien Social Affairs Correspondent. pHSE considers redundancy scheme for middle managers
THE HEALTH Service Executive is considering a redundancy scheme for hundreds of staff but needs funding approval from Government before it can proceed. pFire forces evacuation of 800 people from nightclub
TWO PEOPLE were rescued and approximately 800 were evacuated
when fire broke out in hoardings to the front of the Village
nightclub on Dublin's Wexford St early yesterday morning. p
World
Obama complains of intrusion of racial divisions
UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA has complained of
racial divisions intruding on the Democratic presidential race and
denounced controversial remarks made by his pastor in sermons a
number of years ago. pSetback for Sarkozy as left sweeps to victory in local polls
FRANCE: THE SOCIALIST Party won the second round of
French municipal elections yesterday, but left and right disagreed
on the extent of the defeat and its meaning for President Nicolas
Sarkozy and the right-wing UMP. pStrict Islamic state allows Catholic church to open
QATAR: THOUSANDS OF Catholics attended the consecration in Doha on Saturday of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (St Mary's), the first Christian place of worship in the Gulf state of Qatar which adheres to the puritan Wahhabi practice of Islam. pLabour support hits 25-year low under Brown
BRITAIN: SUPPORT FOR the Labour Party in Britain has fallen to a 25-year low, according to a post-budget poll, suggesting a deepening depression among voters about their economic prospects under prime minister Gordon Brown. p
Finance
'Lots of options' available for Ballsbridge site if plan rejected
PROPERTY developer Seán Dunne says he has a "very
conservative" debt-to-equity ratio and has "lots of options"
available if his plans for his site in Ballsbridge, Dublin, are not
approved. pLisbon Treaty good for the economy, says Ibec
THE EMPLOYERS group Ibec has said that a Yes vote for the Lisbon Treaty is a vote for investment, jobs and the economy. pAlitalia agrees to €747m bid by Air France
AIR FRANCE-KLM group, the world's largest airline by sales, agreed to buy Alitalia SpA in a bid valued at €747 million ($1.2 billion) as part of the Italian government's plan to save the unprofitable carrier from bankruptcy. p
Sport
Ragged defeat the ultimate pay-off
RUGBY: THE LAST throes of the Eddie O'Sullivan era
are expected to be completed within the next few weeks as the key
committees in the IRFU come to grips with a sustained decline that
culminated in an increasingly ragged 33-10 defeat to England on
Saturday. pChelsea pile on the pressure for Sunderland
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE/Sunderland 0 Chelsea 1: RESPECT WAS the watchword here on Saturday evening. Avram Grant, the Chelsea manager, said his team deserved it. Nyron Nosworthy, the Sunderland defender, argued the Black Cats were being shown it. p
