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Gardaí investigate death in Killarney
Gardaí have launched a murder inquiry into the death of a 30-year-old man who died in Kerry General Hospital in the early hours of yesterday. p

Dispute 'damaging' to reputation of nursing
The Health Service Executive Employers' Agency has said industrial action by the Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) and the Psychiatric Nurses' Association (PNA) is damaging the reputation of nursing in Ireland. p

'Viable' pipe-bomb found under car in Clare
Gardaí believe members of a west Dublin drugs gang were responsible for a "viable" pipe-bomb found under a vehicle at a house in Co Clare yesterday. p

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Two men killed in 5am crash in Clare
Two young men died yesterday and two others were injured, one critically, after the van in which they were travelling struck a ditch and crashed into a field in Co Clare. p
Sonia enjoys moment in sun with thousands in her wake
Some public figures are so well known we refer to them only by their first name. p
Settled weather to last through week
Keep the parasols open and the sun factor close at hand, because the good weather is set to last through the first half of the week and possibly longer, according to Met Éireann. p
Families win backing for Irish 'illegals' in US
More than 1,500 families and friends of undocumented Irish workers in the US met in Dublin at the weekend to voice their support for a campaign to allow illegal immigrants to remain in the US and work legally. p
Department reneging on its duties, says parents' council
The Department of Education and Science is putting economic considerations ahead of schoolchildren's safety and creating a "worrying vacuum at the heart of the education system", the chief executive of the National Parents Council (Primary) (NPC) has said. p
Sinn Féin is 'ready to share power in South'
Sinn Féin has said it is ready to be part of a coalition government after the forthcoming general election. p
Five are held as raids net guns and drugs
Five men were arrested by gardaí over the weekend after firearms and drugs were found in separate operations in Dublin. Detectives also believe they have foiled a scam in which luxury cars were being stolen to order from homes in the south of the city. p
Consultants soften stance on new posts
IMO conference: Hospital consultants who are members of the Irish Medical Organisation have indicated they may soften their opposition to plans by the Minister for Health to advertise 50 new consultant posts later this week in the absence of agreement on a new consultants contract. p
Doctors diagnose lack of dialogue as key problem
The mood at the IMO conference was curiously low key, writes Dr Muiris Houston p
Doctors to challenge plan to change medical council
Doctors will mount a legal challenge and begin a campaign of civil disobedience against the new Medical Practitioners Bill as soon as it is enacted later this month, it has emerged. p
Pub air pollution falls 83% - study
A study to be published today will show that there was an 83 per cent decrease in air pollution in pubs since the workplace smoking ban was introduced three years ago. p
Prison service to outsource jobs
The Irish Prison Service is to outsource key drug treatment, counselling and psychologists' positions in a bid to overcome recruitment difficulties that are undermining efforts to introduce a drug-free regime, it has emerged. p
Authors to receive royalties under proposed lending scheme
Authors will receive royalty payments each time a book is borrowed from a public library, under a new Bill published by the Government. p
Residents fear water bug may spread to Mayo
Fears have been expressed by residents of a Gaeltacht village that the region could experience a water contamination similar to the one which has left over 90,000 people in Galway without a supply. p
Call for inquiry into water crisis
The Labour Party has called for a Dáil inquiry into the contamination of Galway's water supply. p
Garda Reserve recruits very thin on the ground
The rate of recruitment to the Garda Reserve is so slow that Garda superintendents across the country have been asked to find suitable candidates in their areas with a view to speeding up the process, it has emerged. p
State criminal legal aid pays €40m to barristers, solicitors
The State paid out more than €40 million to barristers and solicitors through the criminal legal aid scheme last year, the highest amount ever paid under the system. p
Planning hearing into Poolbeg incinerator to begin
An oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála into a municipal waste incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin, one of the most controversial developments planned for the city in years, will begin this week with hundreds of protesters expected to attend. p
Adamstown rail station to open years before housing is built
A new commuter rail station to serve Adamstown in west Dublin will be officially opened by the Taoiseach today - years ahead of the completion of housing development in the area. p
Sex education DVD aims to help parents
A free DVD to teach parents how to talk to their children about sex has been developed by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, which claims that teenagers want their parents to talk abut sex and relationships. p
Green day for Dublin as Ecocabs hit streets
The Ecocabs weren't hard to spot as they trundled about Dublin yesterday - but they could be hard to catch. p
Kiltiernan area plan set to be ammended
Councillors are to vote on an amended local area plan for the south County Dublin village of Kiltiernan this evening, following meetings with planners to address residents' concerns. p
Gilmartin due at tribunal before election
The planning tribunal will recall property developer Tom Gilmartin as a witness weeks before the expected polling day. p
Labour promises major review of decentralisation
The Labour Party yesterday promised to review decentralisation, introduce 500 new buses and to establish a Greater Dublin Authority with a directly elected mayor as part of a plan to transform the capital if in Government after the general election. p
Dublin pledge
Labour's 10-point plan p
FF-Labour coalition favoured in northwest, Luntz finds
A Fianna Fáil-Labour coalition is the favoured option of a focus group sample of floating voters surveyed in the northwest, according to research carried out by US polling expert Frank Luntz for RTÉ's The Week In Politics programme. p
Council says material was put on lamp-posts illegally
Minister of State Pat the Cope Gallagher has said he will face "whatever consequences" for putting up posters around Croke Park in Dublin yesterday, in contravention of anti-littering legislation. p
Oireachtas to pay costs of Higgins challenge
The Oireachtas has agreed to pay the legal costs of Fine Gael Senator Jim Higgins arising from his challenge against a Morris tribunal order that he reveal his sources of information about allegations of Garda corruption in Co Donegal. p
Ahern denies taking cash to Manchester MEP told tribunal of garda's claim of seeing briefcase with cash in 1994
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said there is no truth to claims published yesterday concerning his allegedly taking cash to Manchester in 1994. p
The blight of 'environmental vandalism'
CRIME: the small stuff Fly-tipping refuse, graffiti and bicycle theft are rampant, yet there is no accurate indication of their incidence, or of the extent of convictions for such petty crime. In a short series Ronan McGreevy outlines efforts to stem the kind of criminal activity that blights our urban and rural landscape p
In Short
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p

In the North

DUP leader to name ministers for Assembly executive
Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley will this morning introduce his party's team of four ministers who will share power in a restored executive next month. p

Regional News

EPA holds hearing on licence for Corrib gas refinery
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is due to open its oral hearing in north Mayo today into awarding a pollution control licence for the Corrib gas refinery. p
Coast Guard action questioned after delay in evacuating tanker
The International Transport Federation has called for further answers from the Coast Guard following the emergency over a Polish-owned chemical tanker off Kerry last week. p
Sea eagle project for Killarney gets go ahead
White-tailed sea eagle chicks are to be introduced from Norway into the wetlands of the Killarney National Park, possibly as early as June, it has been confirmed. p

Angling Notes

It's a monster catch!
The fine weather over the past week brought out the best in Irish game angling. Pride of place goes to 3½-year-old Oisín McElroy who, with a little help from dad Noel, caught a magnificent brown trout of 6.4kg on Lough Mask on Easter Sunday. p

Law Report

Withdrawal of District Court appeal can proceed where appellate jurisdiction invoked and case opened
The Director of Public Prosecutions (applicant) v. His Honour Judge Con Murphy and Anthony Joyce (respondents) p

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