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Minister for the Environment and Green Party leader John Gormley yesterday: spoke of a lot of unrest in the party on the tribunal issue.
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Greens and PDs call on Ahern to clarify clash of evidence
THE TAOISEACH has come under serious political pressure from his Coalition partners for the first time since the formation of the Government, with the calls by the Greens and the Progressive Democrats for him to clarify contradictions in the evidence given to the Mahon tribunal about his financial affairs, STEPHEN COLLINS , Political Editor reportsINM accuses O'Brien of campaign to destabilise company
INDEPENDENT NEWS & Media (INM) has launched an attack on businessman Denis O'Brien, accusing him of trying to destabilise the company by spreading "misleading" information as he builds his stake in the firm. ARTHUR BEESLEY , Senior Business Correspondent reportsEnvoy shines fresh light on Yeltsin's no-show at Shannon
FRESH LIGHT has been thrown on the controversial September 1994 episode at Shannon airport when Russia's president at the time, the late Boris Yeltsin, failed to emerge from his official aircraft to meet taoiseach Albert Reynolds and other government ministers on the tarmac outside. DEAGLÁN De BRÉADÚN , Political Correspondent reports
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Double murder now suspected in deaths of father and son in Kerry farmhouse
GARDAÍ IN Co Kerry were last night poised to launch a
double murder investigation after post-mortem examinations revealed
that a father and son found dead in their house in North Kerry had
been shot a number of times. pSoldier suspected of handling illegal firearms
A SERVING soldier is at the centre of a Garda investigation into handling illegal firearms, it has emerged. pFingal pays €5.47mto move Travellers from land
FINGAL COUNTY Council has paid more than €5 million to
seven Traveller families, and continues negotiating with two other
groups, to move off lands at Dunsink Lane, which the council will
now buy from its original owners. pSurvey says some private schools not paying full teacher rate
ASTI: SOME OF the State's most exclusive private
fee-paying schools are not paying their teachers the full
Department of Education and Science salary rates, despite receiving
thousands of euro a year in fees from parents, a new ASTI survey
has indicated. pWriters and artists at Kennys' bookshop founder's funeral
WRITERS, academics and representatives of Galway's arts community attended the funeral yesterday of bookseller Maureen Kenny who died earlier this week in her 90th year. pIslamic centre acknowledges support
HUNDREDS OF mourners filled the Clonskeagh mosque in Dublin
yesterday to say funeral prayers for the two teenage girls who were
killed in a road crash in Co Galway earlier this week. pHarney says in-store ban on tobacco advertising imminent
A BAN on all tobacco advertising in retail outlets and over-the-counter displays of cigarettes is imminent, Minister for Health Mary Harney has said. pLack of care may lead to deaths in custody - professor
PEOPLE ARE at risk of dying unnecessarily because of the absence
of a proper medical service for both victims of crime and
individuals taken into custody, the annual meeting of the Irish
Medical Organisation (IMO) will be told today. pLassus Scholars choir to sing in Westminster
AN IRISH choir is deputising this weekend for one of the world's
major choirs in Westminster Cathedral, London, tomorrow. p
Finance
ESB plans to spend €22bn on network and plants
THE ESB is planning to spend €22 billion on developing its network and generating plants, in what will be the biggest investment of its kind in Ireland. Barry O'Halloran reports. pMoran to spend €166m on expansion of hotel chain
BUSINESSMAN Tom Moran is planning to spend more than €166 million refurbishing and expanding his Moran's and Bewleys hotel chain over the next three years. Ciarán Hancock , Business Affairs Correspondent, reports. pHouse prices fall again but decline remains slow
HOUSE PRICES fell again in February but the rate of decline remained slower than the drop in prices during the last three months of 2007, according to the latest Permanent TSB/ESRI house price index. pAverage hourly earnings for industry workers increase 4.8%
AVERAGE HOURLY earnings for the 244,000 people employed in industry increased by 4.8 per cent in the year to the third quarter of 2007, according to earnings data released yesterday by the Central Statistics Office. p
World
Mugabe rival says recovery could take years
ZIMBABWE: IT COULD take more than 10 years to bring Zimbabwe's crippled economy back to its previous status as one of Africa's healthiest, presidential hopeful Simba Makoni warned yesterday. pAnglo-French relations poised to enter new era
BRITAIN: GORDON BROWN and Nicolas Sarkozy vied
yesterday to define their ambitions for a new era of Anglo-French
relations, promising an entente formidable while predicting the
forthcoming French presidency of the EU could prove "historic". pMonks storm press briefing in Lhasa
CHINA: A GROUP of 30 Tibetan Buddhist monks defied Beijing's efforts to control the spin on this month's riots in Lhasa and other Tibetan areas when the lamas stormed a carefully stage-managed news briefing in Lhasa's Jokang temple for foreign journalists, shouting "Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!" p
Sport
Kidney's men head European rankings
NEWS : MUNSTER HAVE been officially named the top-ranked rugby team in Europe. With the inaugural ERC European Rankings released yesterday, Declan Kidney's side have, based on performance over the past four seasons, come out ahead of second-placed Toulouse, third-placed Biarritz Olympique and fourth-placed Leicester. pDublin apologise to Freeman
NEWS: THE DUBLIN County Board have admitted responsibility for an alleged incident in the closing stages of last Sunday's football league match against Monaghan at Parnell Park. pWenger gives Gallas full backing
SOCCER/ ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE : IT'S NOT every
week Arsene Wenger precedes his press briefing with a spot of lunch
rustled up by Raymond Blanc, his favourite Michelin-starred chef,
and a little chewing of the fat with the British prime minister and
the French president. p
Features
Wishing they were here to stay
Postcard sales and production are in decline, but collecting
them is as popular as ever. Now An Post's using them to send a
message to the future. p
