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Hospital to close unit for month to cut costs
An orthopaedic unit at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan is to close for the month of December in an effort to save money, it was confirmed yesterday. Eithne Donnellan , Health Correspondent, reports. p
Love Ulster rally planned for Dublin called off after talks
A Love Ulster rally planned for next month in Dublin has been called off. Dan Keenan , Northern News Editor, reports. p
Perjury of Keane murder trial witness
A man has been found guilty of committing perjury during a high-profile murder trial four years ago. p
Fifty gardaí hunt for Swiss student's killer
"A four-foot box, a foot for every year." The words of Seamus
Heaney's heartbreaking poem
Mid-Term Break , on the death of his brother, rang out in
Galway's Augustinian church last night at a special service for
murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo. p
Other Stories
Domestic attacks on children rise
Women's Aid has expressed concern at a significant rise in the number of cases of children being victimised or abused as a result of violence in the home. Carl O'Brien , Social Affairs Correspondent pLenihan unveils draft Bill to outlaw human trafficking
Legislation to outlaw human trafficking was published yesterday by Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan as part of a package of measures designed to ensure that Ireland does not become a safe haven for traffickers. Stephen Collins , Political Editor, reports. pHospital unit shut over bacteria find
A 30-bed unit adjacent to and run by Dublin's Beaumont Hospital has been temporarily closed after legionella bacteria was found in its water supply. Eithne Donnellan , Health Correspondent, reports. p'Grind culture' in schools condemned
The head of the group representing second-level principals yesterday delivered a strong critique of the current exam-driven education system. pNew programme to teach pupils about Houses of the Oireachtas
A parliamentary education programme, due to be piloted in
schools over the coming months, was formally launched by Ceann
Comhairle John O'Donoghue and Minister for Education and Science
Mary Hanafin yesterday. pCouncil officials facing inquiry
Two officials at Trim Town Council have been suspended following an allegation that council workers worked on the home of one of them. pDocklands skyscraper to soar to 180m
A skyscraper soaring 60m (197ft) higher than the Spire on
O'Connell Street has been chosen by the Dublin Docklands
Development Authority (DDDA) as the winner of the latest
competition for the U2 Tower at Britain Quay.
Frank McDonald , Environment Editor, reports. p'Mismatch' in green image sold to tourists and reality
There is a mismatch between the green image of Ireland being sold to tourists and the reality that greets them when they arrive, Fáilte Ireland's environmental unit manager Paddy Mathews said yesterday. pDivers to take body out of slurry
Members of the Garda Water Unit are expected to use special breathing apparatus to recover a body from a slurry pit in Co Cork. pIn first place, it's the 'Irish Book of Lists'
It's Irish culture for an audience with a short attention span. pWar memoir of former senator launched
The wartime memoir of former Labour Party senator Jack Harte, the only politician from the Republic decorated for service as an Allied soldier in the second World War, was launched last night in Leinster House. pTo whom it concerns: Gay Byrne launches LifeStory charity volume
Gay Byrne was among those on hand yesterday to sign copies of
LifeStory , a new book meant to encourage families, couples
and individuals to record their personal memories. pGreens deny Gormley U-turn on incineration
The Greens denied last night that the acceptance by the Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, that the country may need two incinerators represented a reversal of party policy and a U-turn on its election manifesto commitments. pMan given time to compensate 14 victims
A Polish national, whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets, has been given time to allow him compensate his 14 victims before he is sentenced. pBeaming faces celebrate success
Special Olympics World Summer Games: The
resounding success of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in
Shanghai was apparent during the closing ceremony last night, in
the beaming faces of the 7,500 athletes and 40,000 volunteers who
gathered in the city's Jiangwan Stadium. pOne in 10 seeking security licence had conviction
Almost one in 10 applicants for a door supervisor or private security guard licence who have been vetted by gardaí have a conviction, with door supervisors twice as likely to have a conviction than security guards. pFaith groups meet Ahern
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Ministers were praised last night for the manner in which they received a delegation from the Humanist Association of Ireland at a meeting under the new structured dialogue process between the State and faith/philosophical communities. pIreland knocked out of contest
World bridge championship: Ireland was knocked out of the world transnational bridge team championship in Shanghai late last night when John Carroll, Tommy Garvey, Nick FitzGibbon, Adam Mesbur and Tom Hanlon failed in their quarter-final match against the strong Zimmerman team. pIn Short
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
Carney statement receives mixed reaction
Reaction: There were mixed reactions among legal experts and victims' representatives yesterday to Mr Justice Carney's comments, with some believing his intervention had contributed to public debate and others labelling his comments "unhelpful". pScientist's doubts put paid to semen evidence
Semen samples: Mr Justice Paul Carney's warning on the making of victim impact statements stems from Majella Holohan's digression from her statement that had been originally agreed by prosecution and defence at the sentencing of Wayne Donoghue. pStory propelled to front of tabloids
There was always going to be strong media interest in Majella Holohan's victim impact statement, but when she asked why semen had been found on her son's body the story was propelled onto the front pages of all the newspapers. p
'Hot Press' editor tells of hall of fame dispute
Businessman Cyril O'Brien was unhappy with how promoter Denis Desmond was carrying out the promotional side of the Hot Press Music Hall of Fame and that was one of the reasons Mr O'Brien sold his shares to other investors in 1999, Hot Press editor Niall Stokes told the High Court yesterday. pMan hit by bus seeks damages
A young Dublin man who claims he suffered a severe head injury after being hit by a Nitelink bus while waving it down as he stood in the centre of the road at 3.20am on a night 12 years ago has begun a High Court action for damages. pWoman awarded €500,000 in case against hospital
A young Co Louth woman who suffers from an inflamed colon has been awarded more than €500,000 in damages by a High Court judge who found her illness was not properly treated or managed by Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and the HSE. pTwo jailed Bohemians fans granted leave to appeal
Two of the four Bohemians football fans from Dublin who were jailed for three months in Derry on Wednesday after they admitted causing criminal damage to a bar and riotous behaviour, were yesterday granted leave to appeal the sentence by the same resident magistrate who jailed them. pMurder accused 'sought to spread blame'
A man accused of murdering his friend in a New Year's Eve fight has sought to spread blame for his death, appearing almost indignant at the prosecution case against him, a court has heard. pIn Short
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
Ryan denies diverting broadband funding to home heating grants
Opposition claims that funding for the expansion of broadband services had been diverted to a new "greener homes" scheme for renewable heating systems, were dismissed by Minister for Natural Resources Eamon Ryan. pNumber of junior Ministers excessive, says Burton
Labour deputy leader Joan Burton criticised the number of junior Ministers appointed, and Oireachtas committees established, under the current Government. pRyan rejects threat to postal service
Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has rejected a Fine Gael claim that there will be a problem in "ensuring that people in the Beara Peninsula, and in Connemara and northwest Donegal get the same level of postal service that people in Dublin 4 get", in a liberalised postal market. pCowen pressed on judge's comments
Tánaiste Brian Cowen refused to be drawn on Mr Justice Paul Carney's remarks on victim impact procedures. pThe Calf locks horns - and comes out ahead
Dáil Sketch: The Bull was otherwise engaged on official Dáil business yesterday morning. So the call went out for Brendan Howlin. "Send in The Calf!" pHarris warns on victim statements
Seanad report: The danger of manipulation of victim impact statements in collusion with certain sections of the media was very real, Eoghan Harris (Ind) said. At the same time, there was a need to know how victim impact statements fitted into the scenario whereby judges came to conclusions. p
Nine 'dissident republicans' held
Nine men have been arrested and a gun and ammunition have been found in a concerted police operation against "republican dissidents" in Co Armagh. pFF 'no threat' to SF in North
The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said that if Fianna Fáil organises there, it will not represent a greater electoral threat to Sinn Féin than the SDLP does at present. pEmpey defends actions on failed Belfast university plan
Sir Reg Empey has responded to a damning report by a Stormont watchdog on his department's handling of a failed attempt to establish a campus of the University of Ulster at a Belfast peace line. p
Dunlop says developer paid for SF protest bus
Developer Owen O'Callaghan paid for a bus to run Sinn Féin-organised protesters to a demonstration outside Dublin County Council in December 1991, the tribunal was told yesterday. pGilmartin accused of changing evidence
Developer Tom Gilmartin's evidence contained "very considerable contradictions right the way through", counsel for the Taoiseach, Colm Ó hOisín SC, told the Mahon tribunal yesterday. p
Retired garda denies he ordered 'get-tough' policy
A retired Garda superintendent has said he did not order a "get-tough" policy on policing late-night drinking in Donegal a decade ago. John Fitzgerald said he issued an order to enforce licensing laws in the town, but said the law should be applied "with reasonableness and discretion". p
Open verdict on Mayo drowning
A sister of a 27-year-old woman who drowned in the Moy river at Foxford, Co Mayo, just before Christmas 2005, along with a man with whom she had been conducting a relationship, told an inquest yesterday that her family was not satisfied with the way the Garda Síochána had conducted the investigation into her sister's death. pRossiter death report due in weeks
The report on the circumstances of the arrest and detention of a 14-year-old schoolboy found unconscious in a Garda station is likely to be published within four to six weeks, an inquest hearing into the boy's death heard yesterday. Barry Roche , Southern Correspondent, reports. pCork city coroner warns on dangers of taking cocaine
A Cork city coroner has warned that people indulging in recreational cocaine use are usually not fully aware of just how risky this behaviour is. p
