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Woman (30) killed in crash in Dunboyne

A female motorist (30) was killed yesterday in a car crash in Co Meath. The woman died after her four-wheel-drive vehicle collided with a truck at a townland called Pace, also known as the Sheaf O'Wheat, in Dunboyne at 9.35am.

She was rushed to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, where she was pronounced dead an hour later. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses.

Louth man on IRA membership charge

A Co Louth man whose trial on an IRA membership charge was prevented from going ahead by the Supreme Court last month was charged with the same offence at the Special Criminal Court yesterday.

Barry O'Brien (35), Oaktate, Stonetown, Dundalk, Co Louth, was charged with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, on April 6th, 2004.

Yesterday Garda Robert Lackey told the Special Criminal Court that he arrested Mr O'Brien at his home in Dundalk on Thursday morning on suspicion of IRA membership on April 6th, 2004.The court remanded him in custody until today, when a bail application is expected to be heard.

Teen fears for life in detention centre

A teenager (17) who fears for his life in St Patrick's Institution due to clashes between feuding gangs must remain in the detention centre. Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court said she did not have the authority to order the removal of the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to another place. "That is up to the governor of the prison," she said.

UCC to host awards for alumni

Outstanding achievers in arts, the judiciary, business and medicine are to be honoured by University College Cork (UCC) at the 2007 alumni achievement awards ceremony this evening. The four graduates to be honoured are poet Theo Dorgan, Mr Justice Bryan McMahon, Prof Gerald O'Sullivan and CRH chief executive Liam O'Mahony.

© 2007 The Irish Times

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