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Postmortem finds man shot in head
A MAN whose body was found buried in a shallow grave on waste
ground in Limerick city had been shot once in the head, a
postmortem has concluded. p
'There is an overwhelming desire to seek vengeance'
ANALYSIS: Limerick's widening gang feud is driven by deep personal hatred just as much as a drugs turf war, writes Conor Lally , Crime Correspondent p
Court told in graphic detail of carnage in Omagh
THE OMAGH civil action has heard detailed and graphic witness
accounts of the bombing in 1998 which killed 29 people and unborn
twins and injured hundreds. p
Kenny neighbour claims he was jostled and barred from entering disputed strip of land
A DISPUTE over ownership of a strip of land beside the homes of
RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour blew up, involving
physical confrontation. p
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Survey shows massive support for carbon taxes
A GOVERNMENT-commissioned opinion poll shows an overwhelming majority are concerned about the impact of climate change in Ireland and back the punitive measures proposed to reduce carbon emissions. pPersonal steps in cutting carbon urged
IRISH PEOPLE need to assume responsibility for their high levels of consumption and individual carbon emission if Ireland is successfully address climate change, Minister for the Environment John Gormley said last night. pHSE to discuss controversial cutbacks in services
THE BOARD of the Health Service Executive (HSE) is expected to consider controversial proposals for cutbacks in services when it meets today. pFully digital mammography service to mean faster screening for women
THE NATIONAL breast cancer screening programme, BreastCheck, has become the first such screening programme worldwide to offer a fully digital mammography service. pMinister criticised by hospital group
CAMPAIGNERS OPPOSING the closure of St Luke's cancer hospital in Rathgar, Dublin, have criticised the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, for refusing to meet a delegation to discuss the views of patients and relatives on the closure. pDebate told HSE sought aid from charity
THE HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) sought financial aid from the Society of St Vincent de Paul because it did not have enough money to pay for patient treatments, it was claimed last night. pFunding for new hospital not in development plan - Harney
IT WAS never envisaged that funding for the planned new hospital for the northeast region would come out of the National Development Plan (NDP), the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, said yesterday. pBeverley Flynn welcomed back to Fianna Fáil party
MAYO TD Beverley Flynn rejoined the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party at a meeting of the organisation yesterday evening - on the eve of Brian Cowen's election as leader of the party. pCowen signals change of style and approach to his new office
The incoming taoiseach has set out his stall in a meeting with political correspondents in Leinster House, writes Stephen Collins , Political Editor pReynolds unhappy at FF money did not go to party
FORMER TAOISEACH Albert Reynolds said in a radio interview yesterday he was disappointed that money intended for Fianna Fáil did not get to the party but it was now a matter for the party to deal with. pCowen says Lemass visit to O'Neill broke down barriers
THE PEACE process succeeded by getting people away from a political narrative of the past that focused on a final destination but instead persuaded them to embark on a common journey, allowing them to decide the destination along the way, Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Brian Cowen said last night. pGarda funds insufficient in 2007, audit body finds
AN GARDA Síochána was not given sufficient funding last year to carry out the work required of it without overspending, according to a group appointed by Government to advise the Garda Commissioner on funding the force. pGardaí seize hundreds of blank and cloned cards
GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the activities of an international credit card cloning gang have seized between 300 and 400 blank and cloned cards in a search in Dublin. pCall for those on holiday at elections to get vote
THOUSANDS OF people who are abroad on holidays or business during general election campaigns should be allowed to vote, an Oireachtas committee has proposed. pAnti-Lisbon campaigners make case
CAMPAIGNERS FROM a number of groups opposed to the Lisbon Treaty made presentations to the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs yesterday, arguing that the treaty would undermine workers' rights, usher in a "European super state" with a military dimension and damage the interests and role of small member states like Ireland. pParents of Catholic primary pupils support role of church
PARENTS OF children in Catholic primary schools back a continued strong role for the church in education, according to a new survey. pAction urged to protect children
GROUPS WORKING with refugees and children have called for changes to the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill to provide specific protection for child victims of trafficking. pAer Lingus pilots accept new work and cost-saving measures
PILOTS AT Aer Lingus have overwhelmingly accepted a new deal on cost-cutting measures and work-practice changes. pRyanair is referred to UK consumer watchdog
RYANAIR HAS been referred to the UK consumer watchdog over claims that it persistently misleads its customers and denigrates rival airlines in newspaper and television advertising. pFears grow for elderly missing tourist in Tenerife
CONCERN CONTINUES to mount for the elderly Irish tourist missing since Sunday in Tenerife. pArt history repeats itself as Clare takes top prize
CO CLARE has taken the top prize in Ireland's premier young
people's art competition for the second year in a row. pTexaco children's art
Detailed results of the Texaco art competetion pStar gazers: ¬100,000 scholarship programme for Irish students of space studies announced
A NEW €100,000 scholarship programme will fund Irish students who wish to pursue space-related studies. It will fund students over the next five years attending the International Space University in Strasbourg. pWitness fails to show at trial for attempted murder of priest
A KEY witness to the shooting of an Irish priest at his South African hospice last year failed to turn up in court yesterday at the trial of two men accused of the attempted murder. pIn Short
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New research stresses limited stroke services
A LACK OF funding and staff ceilings are preventing the provision of a comprehensive stroke-management service in the community, local health-office managers with the Health Service Executive (HSE) have told researchers compiling the first national audit of stroke services. pAudit says patients not part of decisions on care
FEWER THAN half of stroke patients are involved in decisions about their care and treatment while in hospital, the first national audit of stroke care has found. pNational Audit of Stroke Care: main points
Irish stroke care is inadequate, poorly organised and does not come close to best practice by international standards pWhat is a stroke?
A STROKE, also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), occurs when the brain is starved of oxygen. pStroke care
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Investments of £68,000 came from cash in safe
INVESTMENTS TOTALLING £68,000 made by Beverley Flynn on behalf of former EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn came from cash he had accumulated in his safe, the Mahon tribunal was told yesterday. pFlynn denies £50,000 went into his pocket
FORMER EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn has denied that he "trousered" a £50,000 donation intended for Fianna Fáil. pFlynn stonewalls in eyebrow-raising fashion as he puts his trust in the hands of a higher judge
Pádraig Flynn smugly patronised counsel at the tribunal but shed little light on cash trail, writes Miriam Lord at Dublin Castle pFlynn finances uncannily like Ahern's
Beverley Flynn helped her father invest money from political donations, writes Colm Keena p
Charlton says he never got access code to land gate
GERARD CHARLTON'S counsel Eoghan Fitzsimons SC told the High Court yesterday that the events which led to the land dispute began in February 2006 when RTÉ broadcaster Pat Kenny and Mr Charlton had a discussion about a bulge in the wall between Gorse Hill and the Kenny property. pLivingstone's counsel says gardaí failed in duty of care
GARDAÍ WHO arrested James Livingstone abjectly failed to observe the duty of care which they owed him when he was "interrogated abusively" by officers as part of a "negligent investigation", his legal team argued in the High Court yesterday. p14-year-old 'used' by criminal gang, gardaí tell court
A 14-year-old boy charged with possession of a shotgun was being used to do the "dirty work" of a Limerick criminal gang, a court has heard. pMen face charge of stabbing garda
THE TRIAL OF two men charged with "very seriously" stabbing one garda and assaulting another when they foiled the men's attempt at robbing fellow nationals has opened at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. pCourt told alleged killer a 'paranoid schizophrenic'
A MAN accused of killing his uncle in a "frenzied" axe attack was a "textbook paranoid schizophrenic", a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard. pMan charged over Limerick murder
A LIMERICK man has appeared before a special sitting of Limerick District Court charged with a murder in the city last weekend. pMan was 'flipped in the air' by car, murder trial told
A MAN on trial for the murder of a another man in Arklow, Co
Wicklow, deliberately drove his car at the victim, flipping him
high up into the air, a court has heard. pPriest's estate sued over alleged abuse
THE HIGH Court in Cork has heard the opening of a case in which a man is suing the estate of a deceased priest whom he claimed sexually abused him while a secondary school pupil. pWexford man to face trial on rape charges
A CO WEXFORD man charged with 11 counts of rape and 11 counts of sexual assault has been sent forward for trial at the Central Criminal Court.In Short
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No decision on new northeast hospital, says Ahern
DÁIL REPORT: THE BOARD of the Health Service Executive (HSE) will today discuss the report by independent consultants recommending Navan as the location for a new northeast regional hospital. pGovernment to legislate for ban on cluster munitions
THE GOVERNMENT intends legislating for a domestic ban on cluster munitions, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern told the Dáil. pUnanimity needed for EU tax change - Ahern
EU DECISIONS on taxation will continue to require "the unanimous approval of all member states", Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has insisted. pState lax on help for Omagh relatives
THE TAOISEACH has admitted that some arms of the State are reluctant to assist the families of the victims of the Omagh bombing because of legal issues and complexities surrounding how information and help can be provided to them. pGilmore says jobless now at 1980s level
LABOUR LEADER Eamon Gilmore compared current unemployment rates to the 1980s. pAhern mixes tedium with flashes of humour
DÁIL SKETCH: IT WAS business as usual for the outgoing Taoiseach in the Dáil yesterday, writes Michael O'Regan pPöttering reassures Senators on EU tax dispute
SEANAD REPORT: STRESSING THAT corporation tax arrangements could be changed only by unanimous European Union vote, Hans-Gert Pöttering, president of the European Parliament, said he would do his best to ensure that misleading remarks to the contrary would not continue. p
Defendants not obliged to outline case
ANALYSIS: The scope of the evidence in the trial was again an issue in yesterday's proceedings, writes Carol Coulter , Legal Affairs Editor pEvents will mark 10th anniversary of signing of the Belfast Agreement
A NUMBER of events will be held in Northern Ireland, the Republic and the US in the coming days to mark the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Belfast Agreement, which falls tomorrow. pPeople must unite to confront thugs, says Adams
SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has said people in west Belfast must "get real" and understand that IRA is not going to return to tackle criminality in the area. People must stand together against the "thugs", he said yesterday. pRow leads to postponement of victims commissioner Bill
GROWING TENSIONS between Sinn Féin and the DUP over the proposed appointment of a chief victims' commissioner has caused an Assembly debate on the Bill to be unexpectedly postponed. p
Irish language watchdog obstructed
A SENIOR Government official has blocked an investigation by An Coimisinéir Teanga, the Irish Language Commissioner, into the appointment of a judge without fluent Irish to a Gaeltacht area. pDelegation in Norway to voice Corrib gas concerns
LABOUR PARTY president Michael D. Higgins and two councillors
from the Green Party and Sinn Féin are flying to Norway today
to highlights concerns about the Corrib gas project. pCouncils urge switch to 'real nappies' in bid to cut landfill
OLDER WOMEN had said so for years but yesterday saw their advice turn into official policy as three local authorities in the southwest got behind a "real nappy" campaign in an effort to reduce the amount of disposable nappies brought to landfills pIn Short
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