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  • Major immunisation plan announced

    Some 95 per cent of babies born from today will be immunised against a strain of meningitis under what is said to be the most extensive immunisation programme in the history of the State. p

  • High Court is to clarify ruling on city development

    The High Court is expected to clarify on Friday whether work on some parts of a major office development in Dublin city centre may continue in light of a legal action taken by the chairwoman of a nearby tenants' organisation. Ms Vera O'Connor of TLMG Tenants Association - which includes tenants in Townsend, Luke, Moss and Gloucester Streets - had taken proceedings against Dublin Corporation over the development, between Townsend Street and George's Bank, south of the Liffey. p

  • SIPTU threatens ESB with industrial action

    SIPTU is threatening industrial action at the ESB over union recognition within the network technician grade. Although SIPTU has only around 600 members in the company these are concentrated in Moneypoint and the midlands power stations, which gives them the capacity to cause serious power cuts. p

  • EU directive on on-call working

    Employers who do not include time spent by staff on call as part of the working week could find themselves in breach of the EU Working Time Directive. This is the main result of a new judgment from the European Court of Justice. p

  • 25% of youths in care end up in jail

    A quarter of young people who have left health board care and 65 per cent of those who have left special schools were imprisoned or put into a detention centre within two years, according to a new study. p

  • Gilligan murder trial is adjourned for a week

    The trial of Mr John Gilligan for the murder of the journalist Veronica Guerin four years ago was adjourned for a week by the Special Criminal Court yesterday after the court heard that he sacked his legal team last week and then reinstated them. p

  • Man accused of murdering his wife

    A mother of two found strangled to death in her car four years ago was murdered by her husband, a prosecution lawyer alleged yesterday. p

  • Consultant settles dispute with hospital

    A consultant physician said yesterday that he was satisfied with the resolution of his High Court action against the North Eastern Health Board. Dr Colman Muldoon had been placed on "administrative leave" last December in a dispute over allegedly excessive stays by his patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. p

  • Man admits to killing his wife

    A Kilkenny man has gone on trial accused of murdering his wife in May of last year. During his arraignment at the Central Criminal Court yesterday Patrick Hennessy (37), of Killaloe, Callan, Co Kilkenny, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife, Marie, on May 12th, 1999. p

  • IRTC licences for radio stations

    The Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) has announced it will be inviting applications for two new radio services in the Dublin area. p

  • Woodfull settles case against RTE

    Broadcaster Ms Emer Woodfull has settled her action against RTE for bullying. According to her solicitor, Mr Manus McLafferty, she received a "substantial amount". No figure was given but it is believed to be a large five-figure sum. p

  • Suspect's voice put on Crimeline

    Viewers of RTE's Crimeline programme last night heard the voice of one of three men wanted by gardai investigating the rape of a 19-year-old Dublin prostitute who was abducted from the Baggot Street area. p

  • Search for crew of Spanish fishing vessel to continue

    The search is expected to resume this morning for crew members of the British-registered Spanish fishing vessel which ran on to rocks in north Galway Bay early yesterday morning while running for shelter in a southerly gale. p

  • Funeral held of former TD and senator

    The funeral took place in Mullingar yesterday of the former Independent TD and senator, Mr Joe Sheridan. The President, Mrs Mc Aleese, was represented by her aide-de-camp, Comdt Dermot O'Connor. p

  • Garda denies seeking sex with 13-year-old girl

    A Garda sergeant who denies seeking a 13-year-old girl for sex in a Limerick brothel claimed he was involved in a solo investigation into the sexual exploitation of a missing child, a court heard yesterday. p

  • Sisters plan £22m sale of Mater private hospital

    The Mater Private Hospital in Dublin is to be sold by the Sisters of Mercy for £22 million, it was announced yesterday. Ownership will be transferred to a management committee with a 15 per cent shareholding being offered to consultants and staff. p

  • Jordan not to be sporting ambassador

    The decision not to reappoint Formula One motor-racing team owner Mr Eddie Jordan as a tourism sporting ambassador for Ireland has been welcomed by a leading anti-smoking lobby. p

  • Ahern willing to trade EU veto

    The Taoiseach has said he is willing to restrict Ireland's national veto at EU level to "a very few areas", in exchange for a guarantee that the State will retain its right to nominate an EU commissioner. p

  • FF MEP warns over further integration

    The governments of the EU member-states must not "push the boat out too far" on political integration at the Nice summit in December, the Fianna Fail MEP, Mr Gerard Collins, has warned. p

  • Judge Barron to head bombings inquiry

    A former Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Barron, has been appointed by the Government as sole member of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dublin-Monaghan and Dundalk bombings. He succeeds Mr Justice Hamilton who resigned yesterday on health grounds. p

  • Children hurt as school bus is stoned

    At least eight Catholic children were injured last night during a sectarian stoning attack on their school bus in north Belfast. It was the latest of a recent series of rival attacks in the area. p

  • Man shot in feet, hands in Belfast

    A man was shot in a paramilitary-style attack on White rock Road in west Belfast, at about 4 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds to the hands and feet. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. p

  • MSF, AEEU to ballot on merger

    MSF and the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) are to ballot members on a merger. If it goes ahead, the two British-based unions would have more than a million members, of whom 60,000 would work in Ireland. The AEEU is currently suspended from ICTU. p

  • Cabin crew to vote on action

    Aer Lingus cabin crew are expected to vote overwhelmingly for industrial action when their ballot concludes today. The ballot is for action up to and including all-out strike in pursuit of their longstanding pay claim. p

  • Remains of Irish man found in US

    Police in upstate New York have discovered the remains of an Irish man who went missing four months ago while working as a labourer on a remote camping ground. p

  • Two gardai hurt in collision

    Two gardai were injured when a car collided with their stationary vehicle near St Teresa's Gardens on Donore Avenue early this morning. Three occupants of the second vehicle also were injured. All were taken to St James's Hospital but no details of their condition was available. p
FROM THE SOUTH EAST

  • Showcase for local crafts is presented online

    "A virtual craft trail" to display the south-east's craft industry to the world via the Internet has been created by Craft Granary in Cahir, Co Tipperary. p

  • Conference to focus on £27bn plan for region

    Experts from the European Commission, Denmark, Northern Ireland and the Irish Government will debate the future of Ireland's Southern and Eastern Region at a conference in Waterford this week. p

  • Re-enactment warriors busy in Wexford

    Visigoths roamed the region this week. Michael Way of the Theatre Workshop in Wexford was assembling a band of "re-enactment warriors" modelled on the Visigoths, the fifth-century Germanic barbarians similar to the Vandals and the Huns, whose traditional form of recreation appeared to be to sack outposts of the Roman Empire. p

  • Minister believes `St Phelim' was hit by British missile

    The Minister of State, Mr Hugh Byrne, has reasserted his belief that the British government has not revealed all its knowledge of the 1968 Tuskar air crash. The Wexford-based Minister made his comments following an appeal for assistance from international investigators who are conducting a new inquiry into the crash, in which all 61 passengers and crew lost their lives. p
DAIL REPORTBack to Top

  • McCreevy introduces pensions bill

    The State will see a significant ageing of the population over the next 50 years, because of increased life expectancy and declining birth rate, the Minister for Finance told the House. p

  • Taoiseach rejects criticism of office facilities delays

    The Taoiseach rejected Opposition criticism of the failure to have facilities provided in the new office accommodation for TDs in Leinster House. p

  • McCreevy is sticking to tax cuts plans despite inflation

    The Government has pledged that it will keep to its ambition that 80 per cent of taxpayers should pay tax at the standard rate only. The Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, acknowledged the State's inflation performance was disappointing and represented a "serious challenge", but said a lot of inflation was outside domestic control. p

  • Ahern support for de Valera's views on EU

    The Taoiseach strongly supported the recent speech by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands on European integration. p

  • O'Donoghue regrets speeding car incident

    The Minister for Justice's State car was travelling at 86 m.p.h. when it was stopped by gardai in Kerry for exceeding the speed limit, Mr O'Donoghue, said. He said this information was contained in an official Garda report supplied to him earlier in the day. p
THE MORIARTY TRIBUNALBack to Top

  • Traynor left to provide funding

    Mr Charles Haughey said when he decided to build a residence on his island, Inishvickillane, in 1977 he did not think of it in terms of whether the money would be there to pay the builders. He just left it up to Mr Des Traynor to fund it. p

  • Haughey can't recall how island deal was funded

    The early 1970s were, as Mr Charles Haughey has put it himself, his years in the political wilderness. He was living on a large estate, his only income was that of a TD, and he was building up a huge overdraft with AIB. p

  • Privacy of financial affairs was a concern

    A Saudi diplomat, Mr Mahmoud Fustok, has not responded to tribunal requests for details about an apparent purchase by him for £50,000 of a yearling from the Haughey family in 1985, or to attend to give evidence, it was stated yesterday. p
THE HAEMOPHILIA TRIBUNALBack to TopTHE FLOOD TRIBUNALBack to TopNORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLYBack to Top

  • DUP queries `disgraceful' cost of car for SF minister

    The Democratic Unionist Party has said it is costing taxpayers more than £2,000 a month to provide a car and driver for the Minister of Health, Ms Bairbre de Brun (Sinn Fein). Mr Ian Paisley jnr described the expense as "disgraceful". p
THE OMAGH INQUESTSBack to Top

  • The victims

    Brian McCrory (54); Avril Ann Monaghan (30), who was pregnant with twins; Maura Monaghan (20 months); Mary Grimes (65); Breda Devine (20 months); Gareth Conway (18); Lorraine Wilson (15); Julie Hughes (21); Brenda Logue (17); Samantha McFarland (17); Rocio Abad Ramos (23); Sean McLaughlin (12); Fernando Blasco Baselga (12); Oran Doherty (8); James Barker (12); Elizabeth Rushe (57); Philomena Skelton (39); Esther Gibson (36); Ann McCombe (48); Geraldine Breslin (43); Veda Short (56); Alan Radford (16); Fred White (60); Brian White (26); Adrian Gallagher (21); Jolene Marlow (17); Deborah Cartright (20); Olive Hawkes (60); Sean McGrath (61). p

  • Families relieved as hearings conclude

    Representatives of the families of the Omagh victims yesterday expressed relief at the conclusion of the harrowing series of inquests on their loved ones, but said their campaign for justice would continue. p

  • Coroner blames `Real IRA' for carnage

    The "Real IRA" cannot evade responsibility for the human carnage caused by the 1998 bombing atrocity in Omagh, the coroner hearing the inquests asserted yesterday. p

  • Coroner draws a legal line under 28 lost lives

    The long list of dead, ranging from babies to grandmothers, from schoolgirls to housewives and fathers, was read through gravely once again by the coroner at the Omagh bombing inquests as he drew a legal line yesterday under the lost lives of the victims. p
AN UNHEALTHY STATEBack to Top

  • Services must be centralised to rectify major flaws in breast cancer care, says oncologist

    Why do Irish women have a higher mortality rate from breast cancer than women in other Western countries? OECD figures show a 45 per cent mortality rate in the Republic. But with approximately the same breast cancer incidence, Australian women have a mortality rate of only 33 per cent. p

  • Consultants need to change their working practices

    The waiting lists for public patients are the most visible and persistent symptom of the disarray in the health service. They got worse due to the health cutbacks of the 1980s but they are also a consequence of the way the Irish health service is run. p

  • High mortality rate linked to inadequate service

    How healthy are the Irish, and how much of our ill-health can be attributed to failures of the health services? One in three adults smokes; one in four drinks too much; one in three is overweight; and one in 10 is obese. p

  • Hospital waiting lists

    Hospital waiting lists for public patients have been a persistent problem, despite the periodic injection of so-called "waiting list money" by successive governments. p

  • The barriers to getting proper psychiatric care

    Chronic mental illness carries with it more than just a social stigma. It can be very difficult, even for those with a knowledge and understanding of the system, to wade through the many barriers to care. p

  • Correction

    In an article in An Unhealthy State yesterday, when income per head in excess of the EU average was compared with health spending per head, it should have been stated that health spending now struggled to stay above 80 per cent of the EU average, a level last achieved relative to the 15 EU states in 1960. Due to an editing error, the impression was conveyed that current spending struggled to stay above the EU 1960 average. A paragraph was omitted, which stated: "It is possible that this year and last Irish health spending per capita is back for the first time at or above the 85 per cent of the EU average which it has not seen since 1960. But with rapid population increase, substantial rises in spending will continue to be necessary to maintain our convergence with the EU." p
MILAN FASHIONBack to Top

  • Prada's eye on the ground with focus on its footwear collection

    For the benefit of those who could not see clearly what was happening below knee-level on the catwalk, Prada conveniently positioned a screen above the audience to show video footage tracking the shoes on show. This device was particularly pertinent on Monday night, for the new Prada collection focuses sharply on shoes - brightly coloured cone-heeled styles, either courts or slingbacks, pointy-toed or rounded. p
WEATHERBack to Top

  • Guesswork or not, Saxby's gale came good

    Certain natural disasters acquire a name by which they are universally remembered for decades, or even centuries after their occurrence. Examples are the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Big Wind of 1839 in Ireland, and the Lisbon Earthquake, 1755. The Saxby Gale in Nova Scotia is another case in point. p
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