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  • Tribute paid to McDowell

    Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Brian Lenihan, at his first official public engagement, passes a guard of honour at a graduation ceremony in the Garda College, Templemore, Co Tipperary, yesterday. The new Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan, has paid tribute to his predecessor, Michael McDowell, describing him as "a very great minister". p
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  • HSE warns Tallaght hospital over co-location

    Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has been told to make up its mind within seven days about whether it wants a co-located private hospital on site or it could lose the project and have to pay some of the costs associated with it. p

  • Arctic Monkeys lord it over Malahide Castle

    Alex Turner and his cohorts in Arctic Monkeys are a latter-day phenomenon and, despite having an average age of around 21, they are widely credited with changing how the music industry works. Strolling couples, model-railway enthusiasts and amateur botanists - that's what you can, in general, expect to find in Malahide Castle. p

  • Meeting today over Aer Lingus dispute

    Aer Lingus management and Siptu are to meet this morning amid concerns that industrial action at the airline could lead to further delays and disruption as the peak holiday season approaches. p

  • Elderly man and two teens die in road incidents

    Two 19-year-olds and a man in his late 60s were killed in three road traffic incidents around the country over the weekend. p

  • Dáil, Seanad plan to blow dust off image

    A radical make-over of the Dáil and Seanad is to be undertaken to rid the institutions of their stuffy image and make them more accessible to the public. p

  • Trustee attacks Harney over PD coalition

    The acting leader of the Progressive Democrats, Mary Harney, has strongly defended the decision to go into coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Greens in the face of strong criticism from a founding member and trustee of the party. p

  • Ahern to create more junior ministries

    Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to amend legislation to allow him to increase the number of ministers of state from 17 to 20. p

  • Dedicated week aims to educate on ageism

    Discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age is the biggest area being dealt with by the Equality Authority under the Employment Equality Acts, according to its chief executive. p

  • Navan still a 'litter blackspot', survey finds

    Navan, Co Meath, has emerged as a "litter blackspot" for the third time in a row, according to the latest Irish Business Against Litter (Ibal) survey. p

  • Salmond keen to strengthen Scottish/Irish links

    Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond sees the Republic as an example of what a small country can achieve, writes Frank Millar p

  • High spirits in great God debate

    uthor and Irish Times writer John Waters (reflected in mirror) with Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, in the Gate Theatre, Dublin before the debate on religion last night. Christopher Hitchens and John Waters, two furiously tireless polemicists, positively thrive on spreading irritation about the place. At the Gate Theatre in Dublin last night an eager audience relished the opportunity to see the writers work their talent for vexation on one another. p

  • 1,000 married couples face 'legal fiasco'

    An estimated 1,000 married couples remain in what is being described by the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland as a "legal fiasco" following a High Court ruling that the Department of Justice is within its rights to insist non-EU spouses of EU citizens live in another member state before being allowed to live and work here. p

  • Readers come from far and wide to sample Bloomsday

    Derek Joyce, grandnephew of James Joyce, with Keiichi Hayashi, ambassador of Japan, and Linda Givet from Germany at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin on Saturday. To the right are Nicole, Christine and Sabrina Joyce, the writers great-grandnieces. Fred from Wyoming knew he had come to the right place. "I asked everybody around town what this Ulysses thing is and they all referred me to you," he told Senator David Norris. p

  • Inquiry into death of man in Garda custody

    An investigation has begun into the death of a Polish man found unconscious while in custody in Tralee Garda station at lunchtime yesterday. p

  • Kenny pledges to stay at FG helm

    Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny yesterday vowed to lead his party into the next general election. p

  • John O'Donoghue's brother to seek nomination in Kerry South

    Paul O'Donoghue, the younger brother of the new Ceann Comhairle, John O'Donoghue, has announced his intention to seek the Fianna Fáil nomination as a general election candidate for the Kerry South constituency in the next election. p

  • Regulator refuses to detail overcharging by banks

    The State's financial watchdog has refused to provide details of overcharging by individual banks even though its own consumer panel requested the information. p

  • In short

    A round-up of today's other stories in brief p
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  • To meet claim 13 years after date of accrual of cause of action contrary to basic fairness procedures

    Flaw Shanahan, John McCormack and John Stephenson (plaintiffs) v P. J. Carroll & Company Ltd., Wills (Ireland) Ltd., Gallagher (Dublin) Ltd., the Minister for Health, Ireland and the Attorney General (defendants).   Practice and procedure - Application to dismiss - Personal injuries action - Claim for damages for smoking related illness - Want of prosecution - Principles to be applied - Prejudice - Whether delay inordinate and inexcusable - Whether proceedings should be dismissed - Inherent jurisdiction of court to dismiss for lapse of time -Whether defendant unable to properly defend proceedings by reason of lapse of time - Whether real and serious risk of unfair trial - Constitution of Ireland 1937 - Rules of the Superior Courts 1986, O. 27 - European Convention on Human Rights, Article 6. p
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  • Coastal erosion plan

    The Environmental Protection Agency has appointed the Central Fisheries Board to deliver information on fish stocks required for the Water Framework Directive, the aim of which is to establish a framework for the protection of inland waters, estuaries and coastal waters. p
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