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  • Inishturk `shattered' at not being linked to national grid

    The 19 families on Inishturk, comprising 80 people, were "shattered" last night on learning they are to be left without a mains electricity supply. Householders on Inishturk, nine miles off the Mayo coast, had hoped they would be next to be connected to the national grid. p

  • Commission on rural housing spread urged

    The Government should establish a special commission to investigate the scale of Ireland's rural housing phenomenon which is now "spiralling out of control", according to a former president of the Irish Planning Institute. p

  • Man critically ill following nightclub row

    A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital after an incident outside a Co Monaghan nightclub at the weekend. The man, from Dunleer, Co Louth, was knocked unconscious during a row early on Sunday morning near the nightclub in Carrickmacross. p

  • Priest says Vatican rules may be too strict

    A decision by the Vatican to issue strict guidelines for the use of language in the Mass and other liturgical celebrations has been described by a Dublin priest as "a crackdown on policies in place since Vatican II for English translations of official liturgical texts". p

  • Kenyan police search stretch of shoreline for missing boy's body

    Kenyan police were combing a stretch of shoreline on the Indian Ocean yesterday in an effort to recover the body of Rohan Pathak, the five-year-old Irish boy believed to have drowned alongside his parents and a sibling in a boating accident at the weekend. p

  • New York is model for Dublin clean-up plans

    Legislation is being drafted by the Department of the Environment to set up new public-private partnerships to provide "cleaner, greener, safer streets" in designated urban areas. p

  • Protest by redundant workers

    Redundant workers at Roscommon Precision Castings prevented a truck from leaving the plant for several hours yesterday morning because it was removing machinery. p

  • Therese relics priest honoured

    The man believed to have been primarily responsible for bringing relics of St Therese of Lisieux to Ireland has been named Kildare Person of the Year 2001. p

  • Downpour brings local flooding

    Almost an inch of rain fell in an area stretching from Dublin through Mullingar to Sligo during Sunday night and yesterday afternoon, causing some local flooding. Other parts of the country, north and south of that band, were drier. A Met Eireann spokeswoman said such rain was not unusual in August. p

  • Gardai investigate ring theft claim

    Gardai in Cork are investigating claims by a Japanese couple that a ring valued at £45,000 was stolen from their hotel room while they were sleeping. p

  • Wicklow beauty wins Mary title

    A Zambian-born clerical officer from Co Wicklow has been crowned the 34th Mary from Dungloe, just weeks after being crowned the Arklow Princess at her local town festival. Ms Fiona Callan (19) lifted the title at the pageant on Sunday. It attracted 14 entries from around the world. p
SOUTHERN REPORT

  • Fostering payment for disabled daughter is stopped

    The foster parents of a 24-year-old woman with spina bifida, who was taken into their Cork home when she seven, have lost the foster-carer's allowance because the Southern Health Board and the Department of Health consider her to be an adult, even though she has the mental age and needs of a child. p

  • Objectors worried by scenic bypass threat

    A proposal by Cork County Council and the National Roads Authority to improve the road from Cork to Killarney by bypassing Ballincollig and Macroom and the notorious hairpin bends after Baile Bhuirne will be subjected to intense scrutiny. p

  • Trust plans to restore copper-miners' winch in west Cork

    Copper mining and the Allihies area of west Cork have been synonymous for thousands of years. The Illustrated Archaeology of Ireland records that radiocarbon dating of the Mount Gabriel Mine on the Mizen Peninsula suggested it was being worked between 1700 and 1500 BC, making it the oldest copper mine in north-west Europe. p
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  • Unionists to discuss IRA's arms today

    Ulster Unionist Party officers met last night to discuss the party's response to the two governments' salvage proposals as well as their position on the decommissioning body's latest statement. p

  • Development is `hugely historical', Adams says

    The Sinn Fein president has welcomed the statement by the Independent International Co mmission on Decommissioning as "hugely historical". p

  • Arms commission has played a crucial role in North's peace process

    The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is referred by many names - the IICD, "the decommissioning body" and "the de Chastelain commission" - in a bid to simplify its complex name and nature. p

  • Decommissioning body's three members

    Gen John de Chastelain is the best known member of the Independent International Co mmission on Decommissioning. As its chairman, his reputation is on the line. p

  • Unionist claims deal made with IRA

    The hardline Ulster Unionist MP, Mr Jeffrey Donaldson, last night accused the British government of introducing a new definition of decommissioning as part of a carefully arranged deal between the IRA and the IICD. p

  • SDLP welcomes statement

    The SDLP leader has welcomed the decommissioning body's statement, saying he was looking forward to its progress reports on the disarmament of all paramilitary weapons. p

  • US urges response to IRA move

    The United States welcomed yesterday's decommissioning report and urged the North's political parties to pay heed to it. p

  • IRA clearly is not going to disarm itself fully

    Senior security sources still feel there is little likelihood that the IRA will surrender weapons to be collected by Gen John de Chastelain's International Independent Commission on Decommissioning and then render them unusable with oxyacetylene or industrial metal cutters. p

  • IRA move is historic and welcome, Ahern claims

    The Taoiseach has described the statement by Gen John de Chastelain about IRA decommissioning proposals as a "historic breakthrough". p

  • Parties welcome general's statement

    The de Chastelain statement was welcomed yesterday by leaders of the Opposition parties, who said the process of decommissioning agreed should begin immediately. The leader of Fine Gael, Mr Michael Noonan, said the statement should allow the pro-agreement parties to proceed with the full implementation of the Belfast Agreement. p

  • Reid welcomes report as `significant step' forward

    The Northern Ireland Secretary, Dr John Reid, said yesterday's report from the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning on IRA weapons had the potential for "rapidly resolving" the arms issue. p

  • Presbyterian Church welcomes general's statement on weapons

    The Presbyterian Church in Ireland welcomed Gen de Chastelain's statement on decommissioning but said the IRA must act on its promises. p

  • Concession by IRA infuriates dissidents

    Republican Sinn Fein has expressed anger at the Provisional IRA's offer to agree a method with the International Commission on Decommissioning to put its weapons beyond use. However, the party said it was not surprised by the move given the organisation's "total abandonment of republicanism". p

  • Death by chocolate beckons but Belfast mood bittersweet

    Shortly before the news of the latest decommissioning developments, a Belfast artist suggested a novel way for the IRA to get rid of its weapons. p

  • Statement a `last-ditch attempt' which is shrouded in veil of secrecy, says Paisley

    The Democratic Unionist Party leader, the Rev Ian Paisley, has described the decommissioning body's statement as a "last-ditch attempt" which was shrouded in a "veil of secrecy". p

  • Alliance says arms body statement is encouraging

    The Alliance Party has described yesterday's statement by Gen de Chastelain's decommissioning body as "very encouraging". p
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  • The prophetic rainmaker of ancient Israel

    Let me tell you another little story from the Bible. The hero is one who had a walk-on role in yesterday's saga on this page: Elijah the Tishbite, from the town of Tishbe in Galaad, is perhaps better known to history as the Prophet Elias. p
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