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Taxi driver killed in front of son after row inside cab
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old
taxi driver in Blanchardstown, west Dublin on Tuesday night believe
he had a prior arrangement to pick up the two chief suspects for
his killing from a house in nearby Clonee. p
EU plan to track offending foreign drivers
FOREIGN DRIVERS who break traffic laws when they travel in Ireland will no longer be able to avoid prosecution under new European legislation proposed yesterday. p
Armed Garda units to go ahead in regions
AGSI ANNUAL CONFERENCE: GARDA COMMISSIONER Fachtna
Murphy is to proceed with plans to establish armed Garda units in
the regions to deal with armed sieges despite strong opposition
from Garda sergeants and inspectors. p
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Call for riot squads to deploy at night
AGSI ANNUAL CONFERENCE: THE Agsi has called for public order squads to be deployed around the country to deal with drug and alcohol-fuelled violence when pubs and nightclubs close. pDiscovery of handgun and grenades linked to Dublin feud
THE DISCOVERY of two grenades and a handgun in west Dublin is linked to a feud between rival gangs in the city which has claimed 10 lives, Garda sources have said. pIrish engineer captured by pirates is freed
IRISH ENGINEER Fred Parle has been freed after being held captive for more than six weeks on a boat which was captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. pGormley announces €25m heritage grants
A RANGE of heritage properties from Bantry House in Co Cork to
Connolly's Folly in Co Kildare are set to benefit from almost
€25 million in grants announced by Minister for the
Environment John Gormley yesterday. pGrants: some of the recipients
The grants announced yesterday for heritage properties include... pBreach of staff rights may cost firms two years' pay
EMPLOYERS WHO breach workers' employment rights may in future have to pay up to two years' salary in compensation under measures to be introduced by the Government. pActivist says extra land lets M3 avoid Rath Lugh site
CONSERVATION ACTIVIST Lisa Feeney has said that additional land near the proposed M3 in Co Meath could be made available to the motorway builders in order to avoid encroaching on the Rath Lugh site. pIrish EUfor chief admits Déby weaker after attacks
IDRISS DÉBY, the president of Chad who has been propped up by France for nearly two decades, was weakened by the rebel offensive that delayed the deployment of European troops, Gen Patrick Nash, the Irish commander of EUfor, said yesterday. pICTU debate on entering pay talks
THE IRISH Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) is to hold a special conference on April 17th to decide whether it should take part in new national pay talks. pPension row may hit RTÉ services
RTÉ SERVICES could be facing disruption following the decision of staff to ballot for industrial action up to and including strike in a dispute over pensions. pFF senator to oppose abortion resolution
AN IRISH member of the Council of Europe intends to put forward an amendment against a resolution in favour of legalising abortion in Ireland. pHit-and-run driver'a danger to society'
IN A court hearing in Rome yesterday public prosecutor Andrea Mosca called for the immediate imprisonment of Friedrich Vernarelli, the 32-year-old Roman who killed two Irish tourists, Elizabeth Ann Gubbins and Mary Claire Collins, in a hit-and-run incident at a pedestrian crossing in the city centre early on Tuesday. pMulhall mother faces nine new charges over lover's murder
THE MOTHER of Charlotte and Linda Mulhall, who were convicted of the murder and manslaughter respectively of her boyfriend, appeared in court yesterday to face nine new charges in connection with the murder. pNigerian woman seeks injunction to halt deportation
LAWYERS FOR Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai and her two daughters are to seek a High Court injunction this morning to block the family's imminent deportation. pProblems of museum storage flagged in 2006
PROBLEMS ABOUT the storage and management of archival material at the National Museum of Ireland were known before a recent critical report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. pCall for equal rights for civil partners
A GROUP working for gay and lesbian rights in the Church of Ireland yesterday called for the Government to bring in legislation to ensure that civil partners are given the same entitlements as spouses in pension schemes. pGarda to re-interview attack victim
GARDAÍ HOPE to interview for a second time an English teenager who lost a finger in what he described as an attack in Dublin on St Patrick's Day. pCouncil rejects second Beacon hospital
PERMISSION FOR a new €160 million women's, children's and maternity hospital in Sandyford, south Dublin, has been refused by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. pHanafin allocates €58m to refurbish research facilities
AMID GROWING concern about poor facilities in many third-level colleges, €58 million was allocated yesterday for the refurbishment of research facilities at 20 colleges under the Research Facilities Enhancement Scheme. p'This is a time for panic' over markets
SEANAD REPORT MEMBERS SHOULD be panicking over the "mother of all financial crises," the likes of which had not been seen since 1929, said Shane Ross (Ind). pIrish gay activist speaks out against Polish president
A NEW York-based Irish gay activist has filed a complaint against Polish president Lech Kaczynski for using images of his wedding day in a speech condemning gay marriage. pAnnual Irish poker event to have guaranteed €3m prize fund
AT LEAST €3 million will be on the line in Dublin this weekend as poker players from around the world gather for Europe's longestrunning annual poker tournament, the Irish poker open. pMurder accused is further remanded
A 17-YEAR-OLD youth charged with the murder of a Polish man in Drimnagh, Dublin, in February, has been further remanded in custody by the Children's Court pending the preparation of the book of evidence in the case. pIn short
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The Irish Times will be published as normal over the Easter weekend. p
Sterling source claimed for Ahern 'pay' lodgements
FOUR CASH lodgements totalling over IR£11,500 that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said were attributable to salary payments appeared to have emanated from sterling exchanges, the tribunal heard yesterday from the former manager of the Irish Permanent Building Society branch in Drumcondra. pTaoiseach's former secretary denies she carried out sterling transactions
GRÁINNE CARRUTH, former secretary to Taoiseach Bertie
Ahern, has denied she carried out sterling transactions on behalf
of Mr Ahern, but accepts that previous evidence she gave to the
tribunal was incorrect. pManager assumed B/T account stood for 'Bertie and Tim'
THE FORMER manager of the building society branch which held the "B/T account" told the tribunal yesterday he had assumed it stood for "Bertie and Tim". pBanker's view at odds with Taoiseach's evidence over lodgements
ANALYSIS: Yesterday's evidence suggests the Taoiseach was receiving and lodging large sterling sums in 1994, writes Colm Keena . p
Concerns voiced on immigrant Bill's rights provisions
THE IRISH Human Rights Commission has appealed for a robust
debate on the Immigration Bill as it passes through the
Oireachtas. pCommission's key recommendations
A summary of the Irish Human Rights Commission's position on the Immigration Bill. pLabour and FG call for action on report's concerns
OPPOSITION PARTIES and immigrant groups welcomed the Human Rights Commission's report and said its recommendations would have to be carefully considered. pDangers of ignoring international opinions
ANALYSIS: Lawmakers must consider a range of views on the new Immigration Bill, writes Carol Coulter . p
President says full devolution is key to royal visit
PRESIDENT McALEESE, who met Queen Elizabeth in Belfast yesterday, has implicitly acknowledged that a visit to the Republic by the British monarch won't happen this year, although such a visit is "significantly closer". pSurreal touch to historic Belfast visit
THERE WAS, as President McAleese said, "a touch of the surreal
about it". A short time beforehand, she and Queen Elizabeth had met
and shook hands in the Black and White Hall of the Lanyon building
at Queen's University Belfast. pSecret SF-DUP talks claim defended
TONY BLAIR'S former chief of staff is standing by his claim that Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness was his party's "point man" in a secret "back channel" to the DUP opened as early as 2004. pIRA says it is still striving for united Ireland
THE IRA in its annual Easter statement has said it remains committed to achieving a united Ireland. p
Priest fined for evading tax on rent from 11 properties
A CATHOLIC priest from Co Cork has been fined more than
€6,000 for tax offences following his failure to disclose
income he received from the rental of at least 11 properties over a
five-year period. pPriest who planned Nigerian trip targeted in e-mail scam
SERIOUS CONCERNS surrounding the leaking of private information of potential visitors to Nigeria have been expressed after an e-mail scam attempt on well-known author and Columban priest, Fr Seán MacDonagh. pEU farm payments to be published in 2009
EU PAYMENTS made to farmers and others in the agriculture sector will be made public from April 2009, the Department of Agriculture confirmed yesterday. pOrder stops paint shop from letting man go
THE HIGH Court has granted the manager of a painting and decorating store, who claims he has been wrongly accused of misappropriating ten of thousands of euro worth of stock, a temporary order preventing his employers from taking steps to dismiss him. pIn short
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