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  • McDowell insists his action heads off 'threat'

    The European Court finding in favour of a Chinese woman and her Belfast-born daughter girl has vindicated the decision to hold the citizenship referendum in June, the Government has said. p

  • Release of fatal bus accident report postponed

    Dublin Bus has postponed releasing the report into the fatal bus accident at Wellington Quay which claimed five lives after the Director of Public Prosecutions said publication could prejudice a fair trial. p

  • Musician's appeal against conviction upheld

    Ms Sharon Shannon entering court yesterday. Her appeal against a drink-driving conviction was upheld after it emerged the summons had expired Traditional musician Sharon Shannon's appeal against a drink-driving conviction was upheld yesterday, after it emerged at Galway Circuit Court that the summons served on her for the offence was invalid because it had been issued a day too late. p
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  • INTO reaches agreement on special needs

    The INTO last night welcomed a new agreement on the provision of special needs education at primary level next year. p

  • Complaints against solicitors highlighted

    The number of solicitors about whom there were multiple complaints last year is "unacceptable", according to the ombudsman of the Law Society. p

  • Golf club sanctioned for not admitting women

    Portmarnock Golf Club has had its drinks licence suspended for seven days for excluding women as members. p

  • Doran's world sings him a welcome home

    More than 7,000 supporters packed into Waterford's GAA grounds last night to lift the spirits of disappointed Eurovision singer Chris Doran by giving him a homecoming to remember. p

  • McDowell motivated by ambition - Adams

    The renewed onslaught by the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, against Sinn Féin is motivated by "personal ambition and narrow sectional interest", the party has alleged. p

  • Kildare students to be tested for TB

    Leaving Certificate students attending a Co Kildare secondary school are to be screened for tuberculosis later this week after a senior student at their school was confirmed as having contracted the disease. p

  • Company challenges Abbotstown decision

    A company which failed to get the contract to build the national aquatic and leisure centre at Abbotstown, Co Dublin, deliberately financed itself to ensure it did not have money should it lose its legal challenge to the awarding of the contract to another consortium, it was claimed at the High Court yesterday. p

  • Jones sole author of play, says judge

    Award-winning, Belfast-born playwright Marie Jones was declared by a High Court judge in London yesterday to be the sole author of her hit play Stones In His Pockets. p

  • Fair procedures crucial to avoid any legal challenges

    The Government is proceeding cautiously to impeach Judge Curtin, writes Carol Coulter p

  • Pre-teens pressured to take grinds to secure second-level places

    Parents are paying between €20 and €30 an hour on grinds for children as young as 11 to ensure they get the secondary school place they want, a parents' lobby group has said. p

  • Redmond's colleagues were 'strong men'

    Mahon Tribunal: A retired deputy Dublin city manager has dismissed as "nonsense" a claim that he was too weak to stand up to his former local authority colleague, George Redmond. p

  • Armed detectives guard visiting US navy ship

    The Garda Emergency Response Unit and armed detectives have been drafted in to provide security around a US navy vessel docked in Dublin for a week on a goodwill mission. p

  • Senior garda asks for same defence as Commissioner

    Morris Tribunal: The Garda superintendent alleged to have prepared bogus explosives finds in Donegal a decade ago has said he should be allowed the same defence as that put forward by the Garda Commissioner on behalf of the superintendent who investigated the largest of the finds. p

  • Clare man dies after getting into difficulties while swimming

    A 24-year-old man died last night when he got into difficulty while swimming from open water into a rocky cove near Kilkee in Co Clare. The man, who was named locally as Damien Harte, is understood to be the son of a well-known local fisherman. p

  • Result of Independent ballot expected

    The result of a ballot on industrial action by unions involved in a dispute at Independent Newspapers should be known by this evening. p

  • Saint hid sex abuse, says author

    A new book claims that the patron saint of Catholic schools covered up the first sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. p

  • Flats to receive first-ever sinks

    More than 1,200 flats across Dublin will receive their first-ever bathroom sinks in a €2 million initiative. p
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  • Rabbitte says Coalition despised

    Labour Party European launch: The Labour Party leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has predicted that the Government will get "an even bigger hammering than any poll or expert is predicting" in the local and European elections. p

  • Smaller parties aim to break FF/FG hold

    COUNCIL PROFILE: Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown: Bringing down the ruling coalition is the great dream of the smaller parties in Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have shared power in the council for as long as many people can remember, and the opposition would dearly love to end this cosy duopoly.Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown: 28 seats p

  • Domestic issues take attention from EU

    ANALYSIS/Labour Party European campaign: Labour was quick to take the opportunity to attack the Government, reports Mark Brennock p

  • Government 'privatisation agenda' to be targeted

    Socialist Party European launch: The Socialist Party TD, Mr Joe Higgins, has claimed that the Government must bear some responsibility for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US troops at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. p

  • Runners name their stand-in choices

    The Independent TD Mr Paudge Connolly has been chosen to head the list of replacement candidates for a fellow independent, Ms Marian Harkin, in the European Parliament elections. p

  • Combination of factors makes Dublin hard to call

    COUNCIL PROFILE/Dublin City Council: With 52 seats, Dublin City Council is the largest local authority in the State. That makes elections for the council somewhat unpredictable; all the more so this year due to a combination of factors, including the Government's uncertain popularity rating, controversy surrounding the office of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the abolition of the dual mandate. p

  • Polish interest likely to be led by domestic politics

    COUNTRY PROFILE/Poland: Interest is growing across Poland in the upcoming European elections, but for the wrong reasons. Poland's first election for the European Parliament, six weeks after it joined the EU, is likely to be dominated by domestic politics, in particular the uncertain future of the coalition government lead by prime minister designate, Mr Marek Belka. p

  • Election briefing

    Election news in brief p
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  • Taoiseach tells of steps planned for judge's case

    A Government motion to establish a process that could lead to the removal of Judge Brian Curtin from office will be presented by next Tuesday, the Taoiseach has confirmed. p

  • Ahern rejects Adams's claim on killers

    The Taoiseach disputed Mr Gerry Adams's version of events on the proposed release of the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe. p

  • Cox backed if support there - Ahern

    The Taoiseach repeated that he is not interested in the post of EU Commission president and that the Government will back Mr Pat Cox for the job if he has sufficient support. p

  • Dempsey criticises education 'apartheid'

    The Minister for Education, Mr Dempsey, said it was "ironic" that 49 students, mainly from disadvantaged parts of Limerick, were refused places to post-primary schools in the city when there were 15 schools and enough capacity overall in the district. p

  • Vagaries of disability care to State's shame

    It should be to the eternal shame of 21st century Ireland that the parents of an intellectually disabled boy could only contemplate death for themselves and their son "rather than leave him to the vagaries of a State care system in which they have no faith", the Dáil was told. p

  • Smith denies there is a crisis in the Civil Defence

    The Minister for Defence, Mr Smith told the Dáil it was "patent nonsense" to suggest that there was a developing crisis in the Civil Defence Board. p

  • Home is where the heart is for the Taoiseach from Drumcondra

    DAIL SKETCH/Michael O'Regan: There will be no by-election in Dublin Central. The Taoiseach is staying in domestic politics. And that's official. p
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