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  • Fifth teen arrested over killing of Poles

    A FIFTH teenager has been arrested by gardaí investigating the murder of two Polish men in a screwdriver attack in Dublin last month. The 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday and was still being questioned last night about the double killing. p

  • Gift horses for birthday billionaire on first day

    Alfie Montague from Kill gets a closer look at the action CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: BIRTHDAY PRESENTS don't come much better than this. A day after he turned 57, billionaire businessman JP McManus saw his horses take the first and second prize in the first race of the festival. Then Nina Carberry went on to give him another winner in the fifth race. p
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  • Wind and rain almost drown out legendary roar

    CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: THE CHELTENHAM Roar has become the stuff of legend. It's the enormous cheer that goes up when the tapes are raised for the first race of the festival and it never fails to send a tingle up the spines of racegoers. p

  • Copying error led to document not getting to O'Brien

    MORIARTY TRIBUNAL: AN ERROR while photocopying documents led to a tribunal note not being given to businessman Denis O'Brien for more than four years, the Moriarty tribunal was told yesterday. p

  • FG councillors say they notified Bruton of bribery allegation

    MAHON TRIBUNAL: FORMER TAOISEACH John Bruton was notified by councillors of a complaint that a Fine Gael member had sought a £250,000 payment for his support of the Quarryvale development just days before Mr Bruton's counsel said to the planning tribunal that he had no knowledge of the matter, it was claimed yesterday. p

  • Heaney and Hanafin open children's museum

    THE STATE'S first interactive children's museum has been officially opened by poet and Nobel laureate Séamus Heaney and Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin. p

  • Independent inspections to focus on patients' needs

    ANALYSIS: FOR YEARS, the gaping flaws in our system of inspection for nursing homes has been plain to see. One arm of the Health Service Executive is inspecting nursing homes which another arm of the HSE funds, creating a major conflict of interest over whether to close sub-standard homes down p

  • Concerns raised over integration of migrants

    CONCERNS OVER the future integration of foreign migrants in the north Dublin suburb of Ballymun have been raised in a report published yesterday. p

  • Bishops in appeal over Sunday sport

    IRELAND'S CATHOLIC bishops have appealed to "all people of goodwill" to respect the spiritual needs of children and adolescents, particularly as these relate to family life and to religious practice on Sundays. p

  • Port tunnel fire brings traffic to a halt

    TRAFFIC IN Dublin was brought to a standstill for much of yesterday afternoon following the closure of the northbound side of the Dublin Port Tunnel for almost five hours due to its first fire during operations. p

  • Cab freezes €107,800 of dead criminal's estate

    The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has secured a court order freezing part of the estate of a deceased gangland criminal. The money was part of the proceeds of a construction industry fraud where organised crime figures defrauded Revenue of up to €1 million. p

  • Unarmed gardaí foil pub robbery

    A MAN is in Garda custody after he was disarmed and arrested by two unarmed gardaí during a botched raid on a pub in the early hours of yesterday morning. p

  • File sent to DPP over woman's death

    A MAN questioned about the unexplained death of a woman in a Kilkenny hospital last weekend has been released without charge. p

  • Children's referendum deferred to next year

    A REFERENDUM on child protection and children's rights will not be held until next year after the Cabinet agreed to give an Oireachtas committee an extra seven months to agree a wording on any constitutional amendment. p

  • Another 16 schools short of expert autism staff

    A TOTAL of 17 special schools in the Dublin region are waiting to find out from the Health Service Executive (HSE) whether they will be provided with vital therapeutic services for pupils with autism. p

  • Council blocks plan despite offer of free land

    COUNCILLORS IN south Dublin have blocked the rezoning of just under 100 acres of land on the banks of the River Liffey near Lucan which would have provided more than 1,100 affordable homes and 184 acres of free land for the council. p

  • Minister rules out 'sky marshals'

    MINISTER FOR Transport Noel Dempsey has no plans to introduce armed "sky marshals" on Irish airlines such as Ryanair and Aer Lingus, despite new EU regulations allowing for such measures which were passed by the European Parliament yesterday. p

  • ASTI publishes strategy to address funding issue ASTI plan

    TEACHERS' UNION ASTI has published a six-point strategy to address what it calls the funding "crisis" and other issues in Irish education ahead of the Easter teacher conferences. p

  • RTÉ rejects criticism by Norris over Ó Searcaigh

    RTÉ HAS rejected criticism by Independent Senator David Norris of its decision to transmit the Fairytale of Kathmandu documentary on poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh. p

  • Debate told that EU has been a positive influence

    MORE THAN 100 people braved stormy weather in Co Kerry last night to travel to Tralee's Brandon Hotel for a debate on the Lisbon Treaty hosted by the National Forum on Europe. p

  • Cohen announces first Irish date in two decades

    LEGENDARY CANADIAN singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen is set to play Ireland for the first time in two decades in a summer concert at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham Dublin. The outdoor seated concert on June 14th will begin the European leg of his tour, which was announced yesterday. p

  • Government wavers over EU 'blue card' work scheme

    THE GOVERNMENT is still considering whether to opt in to the EU's "blue card" initiative, which aims to attract highly skilled immigrants to the union, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday. p

  • Cancer screening ready for roll-out

    THE CHIEF executive of the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) has said that it has the funding in place to roll out the cervical cancer screening programme in the summer. p

  • Ahern lacks plan for slowdown - FG

    THE TAOISEACH had belatedly recognised the serious economic challenges facing the country, but was still lacking a plan to deal with them, Fine Gael has claimed. p

  • Lynn house fails to attract bids at auction

    THE DUBLIN home of missing solicitor Michael Lynn was withdrawn from auction yesterday after failing to attract bids. p

  • Uninsured cars can get tax discs, admits department

    There is nothing to prevent motorists applying for tax discs in respect of uninsured and fictitious cars, the Department of Environment has admitted. p

  • Bertie will not have attacks on his health footsoldiers

    DÁIL SKETCH: FIVE MINUTES listening to Bertie talking about the Health Service Executive is enough to bring on a systemic weakness in anyone. p

  • Taoiseach playing the blame game, says Gilmore

    DÁIL REPORT: THE LABOUR leader accused the Taoiseach of "suffering from a bad dose of BSE, blame somebody else," in his defence of the health services. p

  • Minister defends refugee tribunal

    MINISTER FOR Justice Brian Lenihan accused Opposition TDs of trying to politicise the work of a public servant "who is doing his statutory duty", in the controversy surrounding the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. p

  • Ahern questioned on treaty referendum date

    THE EU reform treaty referendum date has still not been set, but Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said "it really is a question about the day of the week". p

  • Hospital co-location plan criticised again

    THERE WAS renewed Opposition criticism of the Government's hospital co-location proposals during the resumed debate on the Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill. p

  • Postpone showing of film on poet, says Norris

    SEANAD REPORT: DAVID NORRIS (Ind) called for the showing of the film Fairytale of Kathmandu to be postponed until a full investigation by those qualified in the analysis of film had established the truth or falsehood of the techniques used in its production and the conclusions reached. p

  • Government must work more closely with NGOs, says Kitt

    MINISTER OF State for Overseas Aid Michael Kitt told the Dáil that "lessons can be learned" and the Government must work more closely with non-government organisations to resolve issues about contracts and tougher reporting rules. p

  • Claim that schools rely on donations

    PRIMARY SCHOOLS cannot make ends meet without generous voluntary contributions, fundraising and overdraft facilities, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore claimed. p

  • New Cowen special adviser

    FORMER GOVERNMENT press secretary Joe Lennon, who left a senior post with the Health Service Executive (HSE) last week, is to become special adviser to Minister for Finance Brian Cowen. p

  • Feis Ceoil: results

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  • €100m plan for Killarney

    A DRAMATIC viewing tower and a large eight-screen cinema as well as a courthouse will be among the key features of plans for a €100 million development on the former Great Southern Hotel lands alongside Killarney railway station. p

  • €35m upgrade of Ulster canal to revive waterway building

    The €35 million upgrade of a stretch of the Ulster canal, from upper Lough Erne to Clones in Co Monaghan, will revive the art of canal building, a meeting was told yesterday. p

  • Former AIB worker sues bank for bullying

    A FORMER bank employee has sued Allied Irish Bank for damages for alleged bullying and psychological abuse while she was employed at the bank's branch in Cavan town at a time of "chaos". p

  • Kerry council opposes lower drink-drive limit

    KERRY COUNTY Council is to tell Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey it is opposed to proposals to reduce the current blood alcohol limit for drivers. Councillors and others have said reduced limits will add to rural isolation. p

  • Former Obama aide for Cúirt festival

    SAMANTHA POWER, who resigned last week as senior foreign policy adviser to US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, will be among the Irish and international writers contributing to this year's Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway. p

  • Tralee policing committee calls for Garda blitz to tackle late-night problems

    A HEATED meeting of the Joint Policing Committee in Tralee on Monday night heard a call for an all-out effort from gardaí and the State and "a blitz on the few" who were giving the town a bad name. p

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