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  • Golf club to oppose major plan for Elm Park development

    The area of the planned Elmpark development is marked out in white, with some of the Elm Park Golf Club lands to the left. St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, borders the golf course at the top of the photograph Elm Park Golf Club in Dublin 4 has vowed to "fight all the way" against a proposed multi-million euro high-density development on one of the area's few remaining greenfield sites, which is adjacent to the golf course. p

  • Murder inquiry after body found

    The body of a man found near Brittas, Co Dublin, being removed by ambulance from the scene yesterday Gardai opened a murder inquiry last night after a post-mortem examination confirmed that a man found dead in woodland on the Dublin-Wicklow border was shot in the head. The victim, who has not been named, was aged 39 and was from Inchicore in Dublin. p
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  • Breakthrough in postmasters' dispute signals end to pre-Christmas mail threat

    A threat to postal services from next week was lifted last night following a breakthrough in the dispute that had arisen between An Post and the Irish Postmasters' Union. p

  • Report expected to help talks on partnership deal

    A report released yesterday on the challenges facing the economy should help negotiations on a new national partnership deal, a trade union leader said last night. p

  • Parents pass files on child hospital deaths to Garda

    More than 15 families have handed their files on the retention of the organs of their children who died in hospital to the Garda, according to the campaigning group Parents for Justice. p

  • Law on barring orders to change

    The Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, plans to publish legislation before Christmas which will provide fresh protections to victims of domestic violence, a spokesman for the Minister said yesterday. p

  • Inter-city rail routes to get 67 new carriages

    The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, yesterday announced the largest fleet investment in the history of Iarnrod Éireann. p

  • Groups concerned at comments on blood inquiry

    Two campaign groups for people infected with hepatitis C and HIV through blood and brood products have joined the Irish Haemophilia Society in expressing concern at comments by the Minister for Justice last week over the need to investigate the infections. p

  • Inquiry into port tunnel discrimination claims

    The main contractors building Dublin Port Tunnel have been instructed by the authorities to investigate allegations of discrimination against foreign workers operating trucks on the Fairview site. p

  • Lure of chips and crisps may spell danger

    The presence of a possible cancer-causing chemical in crisps and chips is closely associated with the very process which makes such foods attractive to us, scientists have found. p

  • Cullen sees carbon taxes as way to cut emissions

    The Government must "bite the bullet" on carbon taxes to avoid hundreds of millions of euro in fines for breaching the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, according to the Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen. p

  • Climate is getting warmer and wetter

    Ireland is getting warmer and wetter, with swallows arriving earlier and frosts later, in trends that mirror global climate change, according to a scientific study published yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency. p

  • Budget focus on poorest families urged

    Budget increases in social welfare benefits for children should be targeted at the most needy families, the Society of St Vincent de Paul has said. p

  • O'Donoghue Abbey plan doubted

    Doubts are growing about the feasibility of plans by the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, Mr O'Donghue, to engage the private sector in refurbishing the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. p

  • Prisoners protest over new visiting procedures

    Mr John Lonergan: protest was "minor and peaceful" Officials in Mountjoy Prison are investigating a protest yesterday morning in which up to 100 prisoners threw the contents of their toilet buckets over a landing. p

  • Death row survivor tells prisoners not to lose hope

    Duma Kumalo stood by the whitewashed walls of the execution room in Mountjoy Prison in quiet contemplation yesterday. His own neck was measured for the hangman's noose in the 1980s when, as one of the Sharpeville Six in apartheid South Africa, he was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. p

  • Judge to brief jury on sexual assault case

    Judge Yvonne Murphy will give her charge to the jury this morning in the trial of a Co Tipperary teacher who denies charges of sexual assault against two mentally impaired children at a special school in Limerick. p

  • Army commander gave 'inaccurate' information to Widgery inquiry

    The man who commanded the British army on Bloody Sunday said yesterday he unknowingly gave "inaccurate" information to the original inquiry into the shootings. p
Aer Rianta BillBack to Top

  • Brennan refuses to deny or confirm €5,000 gifts

    The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, has refused to confirm or deny that he is the senior politician who allegedly received €5,000 worth of cigars and drink from Aer Rianta in the early 1990s. p

  • Transport Minister faces Dail challenge

    The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, will come under severe Opposition pressure today to make a full statement to the Dáil on the claims that a €5,000 bill to Aer Rianta was left unpaid by a Government Minister. p

  • Drinks delivery may lead to nasty hangover

    The alleged unpaid bill affair comes as the Government and Aer Riantaare at loggerheads on the authority's future, writes Arthur Beesley p

  • Two posts vacant on board

    There are two vacancies for non-executive directors on the nine-member Aer Rianta board after the five-year terms of office of Mr Dermot O'Leary and the Mr Tadhg O'Donoghue ended a fortnight ago. p
Northern Ireland Policing ProposalsBack to Top

  • SF support for policing is key aim of reforms

    The British government has published legislative proposals on policing which it hopes will convince Sinn Féin to accept fully the PSNI and help relaunch the political process at Stormont. p

  • SF says difficult issues can be resolved

    Sinn Féin and the SDLP reacted with caution to publication of the draft policing proposals yesterday, while the Ulster Unionists were more critical. p

  • Grasping the policing nettle has potential benefits all round

    Analysis: Impetus is at last being injected into the all-party talks, writes Gerry Moriarty , Northern Editor p

  • Murphy sets out rules for service on police bodies

    Former paramilitaries would have to wait for five years on release from prison and would have to make a declaration of acceptance of the principles of non-violence before serving on policing bodies, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr Paul Murphy, said yesterday. p

  • PSNI is held to account by board

    The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) came into being last November to replace the RUC, as recommended by Mr Chris Patten. Mr Patten chaired a comprehensive review of policing needs in Northern Ireland. p
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