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  • New €180bn NDP to focus on 'quality of life'

    The €180 billion National Development Plan (NDP) 2007-2013, to be launched tomorrow, will commit the Government to investment in a number of key areas including transport, children's initiatives, housing, social programmes, education, enterprise and the all-island economy. p

  • Green Party proposes Luas lines for Cork and Galway

    Green Party leader Trevor Sargent, with fold-up bike, at the launch of the Green Party's transport policy with Patricia McKenna, Niall Ó Brolcháin, mayor of Galway, and transport spokesman Eamon Ryan. The Green Party has proposed new Luas lines for Cork and Galway, an extension of Dublin's light rail system and the fast-tracking of a rail link for Navan if it gets into Government after the next general election. p
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  • Two skyscraper men identified as Irish

    Charles Ebbets's 1932 photograph of workers on Rockefeller Center in New York which includes two Irishmen: Patrick (Sonny) Glynn above, and far right in the larger version and Matty O'Shaughnessy far left. A south Galway publican has solved part of the mystery surrounding the identity of 11 construction workers who were captured in a world-famous image dating from 1932.  p

  • Revenue targets growth in internet shopping

    Thousands of internet shoppers have been hit with unexpected charges in a customs crackdown by the Revenue Commissioners. p

  • Kenny calls for debate on crime with Ahern

    Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has challenged the Taoiseach to engage in a public debate on crime before the election, which he promised would be the most competitive in 25 years. p

  • Court set time for 1,000 parking summonses but only eight issued

    The Courts Service has said it made enough time available in 2006 to deal with 1,000 summonses for parking fines issued by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but the council brought only eight summonses forward. p

  • Barrymore tells of naked runs in Irish fields

    Actor Drew Barrymore likes to run naked through Irish wheat fields to find her acting motivation, she said in an interview published in New York yesterday. p

  • Major events planned to mark Flight of the Earls

    Flight of the Earls: 1607:  The Government plans to announce full details in the coming weeks of a major commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls in 1607, The Irish Times has learned. p

  • Legendary broadcaster honoured at funeral

    My elder brother's gone, poetry is daunted; A stave of the barrel is smashed and the wall of learning broken. p

  • Three obstetricians in Neary case guilty of misconduct

    The three obstetricians who provided reports in 1998 exonerating the practice of Drogheda obstetrician Dr Michael Neary have been found guilty of professional misconduct. p

  • Footpath fall claims almost equal expenditure on repair

    Claims against Dublin's four local authorities for falls on footpaths came to almost €15 million in the five years between 2001 and 2005, according to Fine Gael Dublin spokesman Senator Brian Hayes. p

  • Health agencies reject targets on radiotherapy

    There is consensus between the Department of Health, the National Development Finance Agency and the Health Service Executive that the plan by the Minister for Health to improve radiotherapy services countrywide by 2011 by way of public private partnership cannot be met, according to an internal report. p

  • Knock airport rejects military flights

    The directors of Ireland West Airport Knock have taken another step to distance themselves from the controversy generated by one of their members over possible facilitation of military flights at the Mayo airstrip. p

  • Spring condemns McDowell comments on coalition choices

    Former tánaiste and leader of the Labour Party Dick Spring said this weekend he was determined to see the Labour Party regain the seat which it lost to Sinn Féin's Martin Ferris in Kerry North in 2002. p

  • Children's needs not supported - Drumm

    The chief executive of the Health Service Executive has said Dublin's children's hospitals did not always act in the best interests of patients in the past. p

  • €250m to be invested in school computers and IT

    The Government is to invest nearly €250 million in computers and information technology for schools as part of the National Development Plan (NDP) to be formally launched tomorrow. p

  • Mahon to hear of Dunlop payments to councillors

     The lobbyist Frank Dunlop is expected to tell the Mahon tribunal that he paid three members of Dublin County Council in the 1990s for their support in relation to lands at Dundrum in south Dublin. p

  • Pharmacists warn on failure to negotiate new fees

    Pharmacists have again warned they may withdraw from the provision of services to medical card holders unless the Health Service Executive agrees to negotiate with their union on a new fee structure. p

  • Demand for engineering graduates remains high

    College Choice/Brian Mooney: A recent salary survey conducted by Engineers Ireland revealed that graduate engineers earn approximately €29,000 during their first year, which can rise to €33,488 in the second year of employment. Demand is high for engineering graduates with job growth of 32 per cent in the ICT sector in 2006. p

  • Insurance threat to mountain rescues

    The future of the voluntary mountain rescue service is threatened by crippling insurance premiums. p

  • Island's helipad unusable as rescue craft get larger

    Emergency patients needing to be airlifted to hospital from a Co Mayo island have to be winched on to the helicopter as larger rescue craft have outgrown the local helipad built 12 years ago. p

  • InShort

    A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
Angling NotesBack to Top

  • Fun for small fry

    The future of angling rests with our youth. Stock levels may rise and fall, conservationists may strive to keep tabs on threatened species and pollution may be contained, but if the youth of tomorrow fails to continue the legacy of this splendid leisure activity, then the outlook for angling in Ireland is very bleak indeed. p
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  • Adams gets his message across on policing

    There was a key exchange in the impressive community centre in Galbally, east Tyrone, on Saturday night that indicates that Gerry Adams is winning the policing debate with the republican base. p

  • Deal represents 'strategic advance'

    Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams admitted last night he had only made up his mind on support for the new policing arrangements within the past two months. p
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  • Oil spotted near where trawler sank

    The Irish Coast Guard and Naval Service were yesterday evening investigating a sighting of an oil slick near the area where the Honeydew II sank. p

  • Coast guard takes recent challenges in its stride

    The ongoing search for seven bodies off the southeast coast has brought into focus the work carried out by the Irish Coast Guard. Gordon Deegan spent time with the Shannon-based coast guard helicopter unit p

  • Refugee claims his wife starved to death

    The Reception and Integration Agency has said it will "co-operate fully" with a Garda investigation into the death of a South African woman at asylum seekers' accommodation in Salthill, Galway, earlier this month. p
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