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Two children killed as lorry and car collide in Kildare
A seven-year-old boy and his eight-year-old sister were killed following a road crash in Co Kildare yesterday morning. p
Polish men may have been killed by two assailants
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the murder of two Polish men in Dublin now believe the victims may have died at the hands of two different killers. Conor Lally , Crime Correspondent, reports. p
Ex-FF TD apologises for not disclosing meetings
MAHON TRIBUNAL: FORMER FIANNA Fáil TD Marian
McGennis apologised to the tribunal yesterday for not disclosing
meetings she had with Owen O'Callaghan, Frank Dunlop, Ambrose Kelly
and Liam Lawlor, when initially queried in correspondence as to
whether she had met them. p
Other Stories
Anonymous donor gives €2,000 to fund for men
AN ANONYMOUS donor has given € 2,000 to a fund to help the families of the two Polish men stabbed to death outside a chip shop in Drimnagh, Dublin, last week. pWhy more patients' lives are being put at risk
ANALYSIS: IT'S JUST over a year ago since Susie Long first came to public attention when she highlighted how her seven-month wait for a vital colonoscopy in the public health service meant her bowel cancer wasn't picked up until it was too late. p'Susie Long waited seven months . . . and look how long I'm waiting'
JOE GUILFOYLE (64) says he finished his treatment for prostate
cancer in 2006. When he went back for a check-up in March 2007 his
doctor told him he would be referred for a colonoscopy as he was
"bleeding a lot" from his rectum. pMEP warns against EU centralisation
SINN FÉIN ARDFHEIS: THE LISBON Treaty marks another step in the centralisation of political power in the EU, and marks the loss of the automatic right to appoint a commissioner, Sinn Féin MEP Mary Lou McDonald told the opening session of the party's ardfheis at the RDS in Dublin last night. pUnionist says collusion must be tackled
SINN FÉIN ARDFHEIS: RAYMOND McCORD, the first
unionist to address a Sinn Féin ardfheis, was warmly applauded
last night when he told delegates there must be "no surrender to
collusion". pFOI now in crisis, conference told
AMENDMENTS TO Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation in 2003 have resulted in a "collapse" in the number of information inquiries, a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Act has heard. pGarda should not be precluded from information inquiries, says Brady
THE ENTIRE activities of the Garda Síochána should not be precluded from Freedom of Information inquiries, according to a member of the Garda Ombudsman Commission. pTicket sales website denies any role in touting
TICKETS FOR the Ireland-England rugby game are on sale for up to €1,885 on a website owned by Ticketmaster, which has previously expressed opposition to the activities of touts charging vastly inflated prices. Paul Cullen , Consumer Affairs Correspondent, reports pTaoiseach's brothers defend his evidence to Mahon tribunal
THE TWO brothers of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern have strongly defended his evidence to the planning tribunal and have predicted he will stay on as leader until 2011. pMedia outplayed by Bertie's 'blinder' at Croker
LIKE ALL good thrillers it started off in deceptively simple fashion. The Taoiseach arrived in Croke Park to open a career opportunities seminar at GAA headquarters. pGormley gives green awards to 20 schools
GREEN FLAGS, used to recognise environmental achievements, have been awarded to 20 primary schools in Co Dublin and Co Laois by Minister for the Environment John Gormley. pO'Malley in bid to succeed Harney
SENATOR FIONA O'Malley will launch her campaign to succeed Mary Harney as Progressive Democrats leader at a press conference at party headquarters in Dublin tomorrow morning. pGardaí appeal for help to find missing man
GARDAÍ HAVE appealed for assistance in their search for a missing man who was last seen in Dublin's south inner city on Tuesday evening. pFF trustees may discuss party funds issues arising from Mahon
THE TRUSTEES of Fianna Fáil have not been officially notified of any potential difficulty in relation to party funds arising from the evidence to the Mahon tribunal of the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. pNew outbreak of illness related to polluted water
A NEW outbreak of the illness caused by drinking water contamination has occurred on the west coast, with three cases of cryptosporidium reported in north Clare. pMartin ahead of FF on schools - Gilmore
LABOUR LEADER Éamon Gilmore last night claimed Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin's approach to education and integration was more enlightened than all of the Government departments with responsibility for their areas. pCall to halt rezoning in Dún Laoghaire area
SENIOR PLANNERS in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown have urged councillors not to rezone any more land in the county until after 2019, a move likely to be unpopular among developers, landowners and those seeking to buy houses in the area. pDecision to recognise Kosovo not an act of hostility towards Serbia - Ahern
IRELAND'S DECISION to recognise Kosovo was not an act of hostility towards Serbia, according to Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern. p€1.1bn paid to drug manufacturers
THE HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) last year paid out more than €600 million to pharmaceutical wholesalers and retail pharmacists, according to new figures released yesterday. pMost mothers have no life assurance
MOTHERS EVERYWHERE will be cherished tomorrow on Mother's Day, but two out of every three women with children of schoolgoing age have no financial protection against unexpected death, according to new research. pNavan bus crash case set to get earlier hearing
THE CASE relating to the Navan bus crash in 2005 is now expected to be heard later this year and will be up for mention at the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday. pIrish deposits on New York apartments to be returned
IRISH INVESTORS who had been hoping to collect keys to their Manhattan condominiums in the coming weeks have been told that they will be getting their deposits back instead. pBallistics experts called in as Afghans arrested in Tralee
Garda ballistics experts were on their way to Tralee in Co Kerry last night after three Afghan asylum seekers were arrested at their hostel accommodation. pTrinity students win team award
CHRIS KISSANE and David Kenny of Trinity College's Historical
Society were last night named the winning team in the final of
The Irish Times Debate 2008 at University College
Dublin. pChanel back on the merry-go-round
THE SETTING for the Chanel autumn/winter show in the Grand Palais yesterday was a huge burnished carousel in which blown-up versions of familiar Chanel icons such as the tweed jacket, the quilted bag and interlocking CCs replaced the usual parade horses. pMiriam Lord's Week
Hooray Ned is back; Beverley still kicking her heels; Cowen's beer; Sargent's cabbage patch pIn Short
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
Man convicted on death of truck driver
A MAN has been convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal
Court of the manslaughter through dangerous driving of a Lithuanian
truck driver almost two years ago. Charlie McDonagh (21), Belcamp
Lane, Priorswood, Dublin, had admitted he drove the van that killed
Robertus Jusius but had pleaded not guilty to unlawful killing and
dangerous driving causing his death. pAccommodation exposed soldiers to 'serious' risk
AN ENGINEER has told the High Court that billet accommodation in which Irish soldiers were sleeping when their Unifil post in Lebanon came under mortar attack in May 1999 exposed the soldiers to "very serious" risk. pThree INLA accused granted bail
THREE MEN charged with INLA membership have been granted bail at the Special Criminal Court. pAer Arann says it cancelled contract for aircraft due to fears for safety
AER ARANN has claimed before the High Court it had such concerns about the safety of aircraft and the competency of pilots chartered to it by a Polish company that it had cancelled its agreement with that firm after seven weeks. pDrug addict jailed over failed bank raid
A DUBLIN drug addict, whose attempt to rob a Galway bank armed with an imitation gun was foiled by an off-duty Garda superintendent, was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday. pIn Short
A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
Ex-prisoners 'helped resolve conflict'
PARAMILITARY PRISONERS freed following the Belfast Agreement 10 years ago have made a positive contribution to conflict transformation, according to two law lecturers at Queen's University. pIan Paisley jnr nominated by his father to policing board
IAN PAISLEY JNR has confirmed to The Irish Times he is to be nominated by his father, the DUP leader, to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. p
Bord Pleanála gives green light to phase one of Dublin to Navan rail line
PHASE ONE of the reopening of the Dublin-Navan rail line has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála, making it the first project approved under the new fast-track planning scheme for major infrastructural projects. pGlimpse into the past for citizens of 2108
WILL PEOPLE still play hurling in Ireland a hundred years from
now? Will they still read newspapers, use euro coins, watch DVDs,
need mobile phones or heat their homes with oil? pLiterary devotees to descend on Ennis for annual book club festival
HUNDREDS OF literary enthusiasts will visit Ennis, Co Clare, this weekend to celebrate the second annual book club festival. pMinister's warning on early forest fires
A WARNING of the risk of forest fires at this time of year has been issued prior to National Tree Week, which starts tomorrow at 300 venues across the State, writes Seán Mac Connell , Agriculture Correspondent p
