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President Mary McAleese, a former pro-vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth at the university during the British monarch's visit to the North.
Photograph: Alan Betson
Tribunal told Taoiseach's 'pay cheque' lodgements were sterling
NEW EVIDENCE of a series of sterling cash lodgements to Bertie Ahern's building society account in 1994 was given yesterday to the Mahon tribunal.O'Sullivan steps down as Irish coach
EDDIE O'SULLIVAN'S six-and-a-half-year, 78-match reign as Irish rugby coach came to an end last night. He announced his resignation in a short statement, following negotiations with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) over a compensation package for the remaining four years of his contract.€252m school computer plan lags behind EU, study reveals
THE GOVERNMENT'S €252 million plan for computers in schools is insufficient and will leave Irish schools lagging behind their EU counterparts, according to a confidential report commissioned by Minister for Education Mary Hanafin.
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Taxi driver killed in front of son after row inside cab
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old
taxi driver in Blanchardstown, west Dublin on Tuesday night believe
he had a prior arrangement to pick up the two chief suspects for
his killing from a house in nearby Clonee. pEU plan to track offending foreign drivers
FOREIGN DRIVERS who break traffic laws when they travel in Ireland will no longer be able to avoid prosecution under new European legislation proposed yesterday. pArmed Garda units to go ahead in regions
AGSI ANNUAL CONFERENCE: GARDA COMMISSIONER Fachtna
Murphy is to proceed with plans to establish armed Garda units in
the regions to deal with armed sieges despite strong opposition
from Garda sergeants and inspectors. pDiscovery of handgun and grenades linked to Dublin feud
THE DISCOVERY of two grenades and a handgun in west Dublin is linked to a feud between rival gangs in the city which has claimed 10 lives, Garda sources have said. pConcerns voiced on immigrant Bill's rights provisions
THE IRISH Human Rights Commission has appealed for a robust
debate on the Immigration Bill as it passes through the
Oireachtas. pGormley announces €25m heritage grants
A RANGE of heritage properties from Bantry House in Co Cork to
Connolly's Folly in Co Kildare are set to benefit from almost
€25 million in grants announced by Minister for the
Environment John Gormley yesterday. pPriest fined for evading tax on rent from 11 properties
A CATHOLIC priest from Co Cork has been fined more than
€6,000 for tax offences following his failure to disclose
income he received from the rental of at least 11 properties over a
five-year period. pActivist says extra land lets M3 avoid Rath Lugh site
CONSERVATION ACTIVIST Lisa Feeney has said that additional land near the proposed M3 in Co Meath could be made available to the motorway builders in order to avoid encroaching on the Rath Lugh site. pTaoiseach's former secretary denies she carried out sterling transactions
GRÁINNE CARRUTH, former secretary to Taoiseach Bertie
Ahern, has denied she carried out sterling transactions on behalf
of Mr Ahern, but accepts that previous evidence she gave to the
tribunal was incorrect. pSurreal touch to historic Belfast visit
THERE WAS, as President McAleese said, "a touch of the surreal
about it". A short time beforehand, she and Queen Elizabeth had met
and shook hands in the Black and White Hall of the Lanyon building
at Queen's University Belfast. p
World
Papers may undermine Clinton's foreign role claim
UNITED STATES: ON THE day that dozens of US cruise missiles rained down on Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's campaign against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, first lady Hillary Clinton was far from the White House war room: she was touring ancient Egyptian ruins. pFifth anniversary of Iraq war finds Bush unwavering
IRAQ: US PRESIDENT George Bush marked the fifth
anniversary of the Iraq invasion yesterday with an uncompromising
speech in which he described the war as noble, necessary and just
and claimed there was now an unprecedented Arab uprising under way
against Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. pChina has agreed to talk to Dalai Lama, says Brown
CHINA: AS CHINA battled to contain further damage to its international reputation following last week's riots in Tibet, British prime minister Gordon Brown said premier Wen Jiabao had told him he was prepared to hold discussions on Tibet with the Dalai Lama. p
Finance
Anglo shares recover as inquiry into UK trading launched
SHARES IN Anglo Irish Bank recovered from sharp intra-day losses to close unchanged last night as British regulators said they were investigating trading in financial stocks after a spate of rumours triggered exceptional volatility in share prices. pTension stays high as Iseq ends dismal day down 1%
POSITIVE SENTIMENT on European stock markets following the cut
in US interest rates didn't last for long yesterday, as rumours of
funding problems at major financial institutions prompted sellers
to come back into the market. pAer Lingus fuel surcharge on US flights rises 15.4%
AER LINGUS yesterday hiked its fuel surcharge on transatlantic flights by up to 15.4 per cent in a bid to offset the effects of the high price of oil. p
Sport
GAA announce lucrative new deals
SPONSORSHIP OF HURLING AND FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS : THE GAA finally confirmed the new multi-sponsor championship packages yesterday. pTottenham deliver more pain to Chelsea
Tottenham 4 Chelsea 4: IF THERE are
no more trophies to be pursued this season, Tottenham Hotspur might
still take vast satisfaction from harming Chelsea's bid for the
title severely. p
