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Luas Docklands extension to cost €60m a kilometre
THE COST of the Luas extension to Dublin's Docklands is €90 million - or €60 million a kilometre, the chief executive of the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA), Frank Allen, has revealed. p
Sex, drugs and . . . Pistols get ready to picnic
PUNK LEGENDS The Sex Pistols are to headline the Electric Picnic
festival - making it the first time the band has played in
Ireland. p
NI civil servants in strike threat over job cuts
NORTHERN IRELAND civil service union NIPSA is threatening industrial action over plans by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to cut more than 450 jobs over the next three years. p
Other Stories
Ó Searcaigh claims Nepal film distorted and unfair
THE POET Cathal Ó Searcaigh has strongly criticised his portrayal in the documentary Fairytale of Kathmandu, saying it gave a distorted and unfair impression of his relationships with young Nepalese men. pYoung male drivers' delusions make them dangerous, says Byrne
FOUR "DELUSIONS" shared by young male drivers made them the most "dangerous category" of people on roads, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA)chairman Gay Byrne. pInquest told how two women died in Kilkenny crash
THE CIRCUMSTANCES of a crash in which two Kilkenny women died were outlined at an inquest yesterday. pBruton salutes historic legacy of John Redmond
HISTORY HAD not "done justice" to the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, John Redmond, the EU ambassador to the US and former taoiseach John Bruton said at the Mansion House in Dublin last night. pEvents may yet conspire to turn party against Ahern leadership
ANALYSIS Fianna Fáil is playing a wait-and-see game on Taoiseach's evidence, writes Harry McGee pReps challenge regional VFI redundancies
THE VINTNERS Federation of Ireland had to make all its regional representatives redundant because of the closure of 1,400 rural pubs over the last four years, a tribunal has been told. pGardaí braced for reprisals in Limerick after submachine gun attack
GARDA PATROLS have been stepped up in a Limerick housing estate following a shooting spree in which several homes belonging to senior members of one of the city's feuding factions were sprayed with machine gun fire. pFinger severed in accident, not in assault as claimed
AN ENGLISH teenager who said he lost his finger in an attack on St Patrick's Day in Dublin severed it while attempting to climb over a fence, gardaí said yesterday. pStrong criticism of detention plan for asylum seekers
GOVERNMENT PLANS to establish a detention centre for asylum seekers in the new Thornton Hall prison complex have drawn sharp criticism from groups that say it will result in the detention of people who have not committed any crime. pIrish man found drowned in Stockholm
THE BODY of an Irish tourist who went missing in Stockholm more than a week ago has been recovered from the harbour close to where he was last seen, Swedish police confirmed last night. pNRA chief in sharp exchanges over tunnel
THERE WERE terse exchanges between chief executive of the National Roads Authority (NRA) Fred Barry and members of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport yesterday. pPaddy Power reined in over breastfeeding advert
AN ADVERTISEMENT featuring a barechested, overweight man apparently about to breastfeed a baby has earned the dubious distinction of being the most-complained about ad of 2008 so far. pMinister welcomes role for new Sea Fisheries Protection Authority
THE ESTABLISHMENT of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority was yesterday welcomed by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan, as a major step in protecting Irish fish stocks and ensuring the sustainability of the industry. pConsultant contracts set to dominate IMO annual meeting today
THE MUCH-DELAYED hospital consultant contract is likely to dominate the annual meeting of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), which begins in Killarney today. pHealth service groups urge public to attend protest
THE HEALTH service is being run by accountants and economists who know the price of everything but the value of nothing, the president of the Irish Nurses Organisations said yesterday. pYes vote for 'peaceful Europe'
MINISTER OF State Pat the Cope Gallagher last night urged a Yes vote on the basis that it would ensure the continuation of "a peaceful Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals". pMany say rape victims at fault - poll
SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS of people think rape victims are responsible for being attacked by the way they dress, by how much they have had to drink or because of their sexual history, according to a national opinion poll. pIn Short
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Kearney appeals against conviction for wife's murder
BRIAN KEARNEY has lodged an appeal against his conviction for the murder of his wife at their home in south Dublin two years ago. pCorkman further bailed on 10 charges of money laundering
A MAN has been further remanded on bail on money laundering charges when he made his second appearance in court following an investigation by gardaí into the Northern Bank robbery in 2004. pPeace activist comes to agreement with TG4 over showing documentary
ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST Mary Kelly has resolved her High Court action aimed at blocking the broadcast of a TG4 documentary about her life story. p
Law may leave gay teachers open to being dismissed
INTO CONFERENCE: GAY AND lesbian teachers could be dismissed if their lifestyle is seen as undermining the religious ethos of schools, the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO)conference was told yesterday. p'Deplorable conditions' in primary schools condemned as unjust
SCHOOL FACILITIES: SUB-STANDARD conditions are still the norm in many primary schools, the INTO conference was told yesterday. pDelegates angry that 175 unqualified people continue to be registered
TEACHING COUNCIL REGISTER: MORE THAN 175 unqualified personnel are registered with the professional body for teachers and over one-third of these have no post-Leaving Cert qualifications, the conference heard yesterday. pHanafin says some schools exclude special needs pupils
TUI CONFERENCE: SUBTLE PRACTICES are being used by some schools to discourage particular groups such as students with special needs from applying for places, Minister for Education Mary Hanafin said yesterday. pWarning that racism is a crisis waiting to happen
RACISM: RACISM IN schools is a crisis waiting to happen unless the appropriate resources are invested now, according to Annette Dolan, assistant general secretary of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI). pPaperwork distracts teachers from job
ASTI CONFERNCE/GENERAL SECRETARY'S ADDRESS: TEACHERS ARE being distracted from their real work by a populist modernisation programme that places bureaucratic burdens on schools involving "endless paper trails", a trade union leader claimed yesterday. pSchools that cherry pick 'should be penalised'
SPECIAL NEEDS: SCHOOLS THAT cherry pick students and that do not take their fair share of students with special educational needs should be penalised by the Department of Education and Science, according to the State's largest second-level teachers' union, the ASTI. pDelegates vote against signing off on school projects
EXAMS: TEACHERS ARE being forced to sign off on school projects for State examinations that too often have been compiled by students' parents, the ASTI conference was told. pASTI's approach puts emphasis on negotiation
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Deaths of Roscommon couple not considered suspicious
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the deaths of an elderly couple at their home in Co Roscommon do not suspect foul play. pSound move by St Fin Barre's as historic bells refurbished
THEY MAY not be as famous as the Bells of St Anne's of Shandon
across the river Lee on Cork's north side, but the bells of St Fin
Barre's Cathedral on the south side of the city are about to ring
out loudly across the city again after undergoing a major
refurbishment. pOpen verdict on mother and baby
AN OPEN verdict has been returned in the inquest into the deaths by drowning of a mother who was suffering from post-natal depression and her baby son in a Cork river last year. pFive alive due to organ transplants, inquest told
FIVE PEOPLE including a one- year-old girl are alive as a result of the family of a young man deciding to donate his organs, an inquest heard yesterday. pQuarry owner assaulted council men, court told
TWO PLANNING officers with Kerry County Council were assaulted in the headquarters of the council by a man whose quarry had been closed down on foot of enforcement procedures taken some years previously, the District Court in Tralee heard yesterday. pIn Short
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