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  • Supreme Court reverses residency decision

    Oghenetano Uwhumiaktor from Nigeria protesting against the new deportation laws with Residents against Racism in Dublin last night Ruling overturned: The Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a High Court decision that the Minister for Justice unlawfully breached the rights of several Irish-born children in the way in which he refused their foreign national parents' applications to remain here under a once-off and "generous" scheme. p

  • Mulhall sister pleads for sentence cut

    Linda Mulhall: got 15-year sentence for manslaughter The Court of Criminal Appeal will give its judgment next year on an appeal by Dublin woman Linda Mulhall to have her 15-year sentence for the manslaughter of her mother's boyfriend reduced. p
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  • Foreign parents worried by court ruling

    Reaction: Foreign-born parents of Irish citizen children expressed fear that hundreds of families could be split up or deported after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. p

  • Legal saga finally brought to an end

    Analysis: The roots of the problems surrounding the Irish-born children of foreign nationals lie in the mid- 1990s, when Ireland's burgeoning economy attracted immigrants. p

  • Modest rise in retail trade predicted

    A shopper takes time out on Grafton Street in Dublin yesterday. Retailers say their Christmas trade has picked up over the last week after a slow start earlier in the month. Most are predicting a modest growth in turnover this Christmas, but nothing like the double-digit growth seen in previous years. p

  • EPA to decide quickly if it will hold Poolbeg hearing

    A new oral hearing into the Poolbeg incinerator could be conducted next year by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the receipt of objections to its proposal to grant a licence for the facility. p

  • New security measures foil cashbox theft

    Map of the events of yesterday's kidnap and attempted robbery New security measures introduced following a series of cash-in-transit raids last year helped foil a so-called "tiger kidnapping" yesterday, gardaí have said. p

  • Paying vehicles equal toll-free tunnel users

    The number of motorists paying to use Dublin Port Tunnel has equalled the number of vehicles that use it for free, the National Roads Authority (NRA) has said. p

  • Sale of samurai swords not facing ban

    Legislation already exists to prosecute people for using samurai swords, but there are no plans to ban their purchase, the Government said last night. p

  • Singer Christie Hennessy laid to rest

    Friends and family yesterday said farewell to the man who was the first to popularly chronicle the lives of Irish labourers and navvies in England in song, Christie Hennessy, who died of cancer in London last week. p

  • Skeletons found at battle site

    Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the first human remains from one of the island's most significant battle sites at Aughrim, Co Galway. p

  • In Short

    A roundup of today's other news stories in brief p
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  • Ahern defends having no bank account

    Taoiseach Bertie Ahern arriving at the Mahon tribunal in Dublin Castle yesterday. He told the tribunal there was nothing in the law or the Constitution that prevented him from operating his finances without a bank account. There was "nothing in the law or the Constitution" that required a person to have a bank account, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Mahon tribunal yesterday. p

  • Taoiseach says St Luke's acquired for Fianna Fáil

    Taoiseach's office: St Luke's office in Drumcondra, Dublin was not acquired solely for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, the tribunal was told yesterday. p

  • Separation none of your business, angry Ahern tells counsel

    Savings and loans: The details of his separation from his wife were not "any of your damn business", Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told tribunal counsel Des O'Neill SC. p

  • Accounts opened after marriage settled

    Bank records: Taoiseach Bertie Ahern rejoined the banking system as soon as his marital separation was settled in late 1993, he told the tribunal yesterday. p

  • No offer of financial help in year of separation

    Assistance: Close friends of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern did not offer to give him financial assistance when he separated from his wife in 1987, the Mahon tribunal was told yesterday. p

  • Tribunal trying to stitch me up - Ahern

    Timing of loan: Taoiseach Bertie Ahern yesterday accused the tribunal of trying to "stitch him up", after counsel suggested he might have arranged a loan with his bank and then "acquired" the money from his friends to cover it. p

  • Minister made 'disgraceful attack' on inquiry, FG claim

    Political reaction: A political row over the Mahon tribunal's questioning of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern flared last night with Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern describing the tribunal's questioning of his leader as "astounding" and Fine Gael accusing the Minister of a "disgraceful attempt" to divert attention from the evidence. p

  • Two bizarre scenarios presented to inquiry

    Analysis: Tribunals are intended to be inquisitional rather than adversarial but as any observer can tell you, people who find their affairs being investigated by tribunals rarely experience them that way. p

  • Tribunal attacks Bertie's Dobson Defence

    "Supporters" with placards proclaiming property developers' affection for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern outside the tribunal yesterday Tribunal sketch/Miriam Lord: Throughout this sorry saga, there is one constant. It has always been the elephant in the room that nobody really wants to recognise, because it is too embarrassing and far too private. Nobody wants to intrude. p

  • KEY QUOTES

    Bertie Ahern: I had saved it [his cash savings] since 1987, through the whole period of my separation, which I don't think is any of your damn business. p

  • KEY EXCHANGE:

    Des O'Neill and Bertie Ahern: p
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  • Hoey cleared of Omagh bomb charges

    The scene of the Omagh bombing on August 15th, 1998. Omagh case: Sean Gerard Hoey, the man accused of the Real IRA bombing of Omagh, the single worst terrorist bombing atrocity in Northern Ireland, was yesterday cleared of all charges against him. p

  • No end in sight to pain and suffering

    Reaction: The scene at Belfast Crown Court yesterday was one of anguish for the relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing, of satisfaction and relief for the family and friends of Sean Hoey, and of dismay and, surely, embarrassment for those who tried to convict the south Armagh electrician of the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles. p

  • Emphatic clearance leaves many questions to be answered

    Background: To the dispassionate onlooker, the Omagh trial appeared to have everything. p

  • EVIDENCE: DNA testing

    Low copy number DNA (Deoxy-riboNucleic Acid) testing was one of the key planks of the failed prosecution case against Sean Hoey. Mr Justice Weir made it clear he was unhappy with the LCN DNA evidence. p
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