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  • McCreevy is unlikely to levy 'green' taxes

    Mr McCreevy: strong pressure from the Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen The Minister for Finance now appears unlikely to introduce significant green taxes on fossil fuels in Wednesday's Budget despite strong pressure in recent weeks from the Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen. p

  • Weekend comes to a stormy end

    A group of people braving the wave-swept Blackrock diving tower in Salthill, Galway, yesterday. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy High winds brought down power lines and kept emergency services busy, as the weekend came to a stormy end in almost all areas of the country. p

  • Operation Freeflow in full swing

    Gardai got on their push bikes in Dublin city centre yesterday for the first day of Operation Freeflow 2002.Early indications are that the new measures, designed to ease the flow of traffic in the capital over the festive season, will be effective in relieving congestion, according to a spokesman from the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO). p
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  • Group withdraws from organs inquiry

    The group campaigning for an inquiry into the retention of organs has called for the Dunne inquiry to be stood down. The inquiry was set up to examine post-mortem practices in hospitals and the retention of body parts. p

  • McDowell seeks ways of cutting asylum cost

    Proposals on ways to reduce the amount of money spent on asylum-seekers will be brought to a new cabinet sub-committee by the Minister for Justice this month. p

  • Report calls for more women in politics

    Democracy has been damaged by the marginalisation of women from politics and decision-making, according to research from the National Women's Council of Ireland. p

  • Hill fears for three if jailed in Colombia

    Paul Hill of the Guildford Four, who is attending the trial of the 'Colombia Three', talks to Deaglán de Bréadún, in Bogota p

  • DPP inquiry into e-mail circulating racist poem

    The Director of Public Prosecutions has set up an investigation into the circulation by e-mail of a racist poem that apparently originated in his office. p

  • Memorial service for Richard Harris in home city of Limerick

    "Very moving, friendly and full of love" was how Ms Elizabeth Harris, first wife of actor Richard Harris, described the memorial Mass held in Limerick on Saturday for her late husband who died in London last month. p

  • Bin charges in Dublin could rise by 30%

    Householders in Dublin face a 30 per cent increase in refuse collection charges under a proposal to be considered by city councillors next week. p

  • Labour wants families and welfare protected in Budget

    Labour has called on the Minister for Finance to protect families, social welfare recipients and infrastructure in Wednesday's Budget. p

  • Limerick council opposes waste plans

    Limerick County Council has joined local residents in opposing contentious plans by a private waste company to more than quadruple the size of its licensed waste operation at Grange, Co Limerick. p

  • Regional newspapers in pay row

    The National Union of Journalists has decided to refer a dispute with regional newspaper employers over the pay and conditions of some 200 of its members, to the Labour Relations Commission. p

  • Labour calls for food department

    A separate department of food needs to be established in the wake of the latest BSE case, says the Labour party. p

  • Ballymun residents feel left out in the cold

    The transformation of Ballymun is progressing on a massive scale. But, as Kitty Holland reports, many of those most affected highlight the failure to take on board their concerns p

  • Travellers told no alternative to housing on offer

    "They just told us 'take it or leave it'. They told us there'd be plenty of others who would take the houses if we didn't," says Ms Kathleen Maughan.Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL), she says, effectively told the 276 Travellers like herself, currently living in the over-crowded St Margaret's halting site, that whether they liked the housing being offered or not, there would be no alternative. p
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  • Ireland faces 'lung cancer epidemic in women'

    Almost as many women are dying from lung cancer as breast cancer, yet services for patients with tumours of the lung are lagging well behind those for other cancers, a major conference has heard. p

  • Cancer scanner may be in place by 2004

    The Republic could have its first publicly funded state-of-the-art cancer scanner in 2004 if a proposal currently before the Department of Health is approved. p

  • Doctor says anti-depressants are over-prescribed

    A doctor and psychotherapist has called for an investigation into the treatment of mental illness in and what he sees as the "gross over-prescribing" of anti-depressants. p
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  • Registered voters total down by 11% in NI

    The North's political parties will be given access today to the latest electoral register, compiled under new anti-fraud rules, which shows a drop in voter registration of some 130,000, or 11 per cent. The drop is almost 20 per cent in west Belfast. It is the first register to be compiled under the new strict Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act, 2002, which came into force last May and was published just after midnight. p

  • Priority is disposing of IRA guns, says Trimble on impasse

    Mr David Trimble appears agreed with Dublin and London that talk of "disbandment" is unhelpful to negotiations about IRA "acts of completion" to end the political crisis in Northern Ireland. p

  • Police believe doorstep killing of father-of-two was not sectarian

    Police believe the murder of a father-of-two at his north Down home at the weekend was not sectarian. p

  • Bertie's spin cycle goes out of control

    ANALYSIS: The Taoiseach was probably seeking to create a climate of opinion appreciative of the strides by the IRA, writes Frank Millar, London Editor p
Regional NewsBack to Top

  • Vaccine clinic gets 'tremendous response'

    The privately owned UK-based company that held clinics in Waterford at the weekend providing individual vaccines for measles are to return to the city in March, June and September 2003 after claiming the response to their first Irish clinic was "tremendous". p

  • Yeats scholars object to house plan

    A group of international W.B. Yeats scholars has objected to plans to build a dwelling house on land next to Thoor Ballylee in south Galway. p

  • Naval Service 'able to handle new pressures'

    If the Government loses its battle to retain the Irish Box, the Naval Service will cope with the increased pressure on fishery protection, according to its new chief. p

  • Staff meet union on Torc hotel closure

    Staff representatives of the nine Great Southern Hotels are meeting senior officials of their union in Dublin today to decide on a course of action over the closure and proposed sale of the Torc Great Southern Hotel in Killarney. p

  • Murder victim had withdrawn intimidation statement

    As the removal of the remains of murder victim Brian Fitzgerald took place in Limerick last night, gardaí are still hunting his killers. p
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