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  • Coming to a tap near you?

    The surface of an intestine infested with cryptosporidium: when ingested by humans, the bug attaches itself to the intestine and begins to replicate, often causing diarrhoea and severe cramps. The Galway water crisis was an accident wiating to happen. And it is a story likely to be repeated inmany areas, writes Liam Reid , Environment Correspondent. p

  • Water carrier: bug on the move

    Two years ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which only last month was given the power to enforce standards in water quality in local authority plants, attempted to assess the potential problem cryptosporidium posed and asked every council in the country to carry out risk assessments on its public water supplies. p

  • The bug abroad: other outbreaks

    Dr Diarmuid O'Donovan, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) director of public health in the western region believes it is unfair to categorise the water crisis in Galway as a third world problem. p

  • Is the flame about to die?

    The debate about religious teaching in schools came to a head this week when surveys suggested that Irish children don't know even the basics of Catholicism, writes Louise Holden . p
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  • When the feeling isn't mutual

    Things have gone sour for one of the last mutual building societies, which faces a landmark agm next week, writes Paul Cullen . p

  • A barometer for the ballot

    The vote in Auxerre usually mirrors that of the whole of France and the battle lines are drawn between right and left. Lara Marlowe tests local opinion. p

  • The archbishop, his wife, the Pope and the Moonies

    An archbishop excommunicated for marrying in a cult ceremony believes he is on a divine mission, writes Tom Hennigan in São Paolo. p

  • Mystique or mistake?

    A new book claiming stay-at-home mothers are naive has hit a collective nerve, writes Kate Holmquist . p

  • The two faces of East Germany

    How should the old East be remembered in a united Germany? New divisions are emerging, writes Derek Scally in Berlin. p

  • Eco-rockin' all over the world

    In July, dozens of pop stars will jet off to save the world via the Live Earth concerts, but who will save us from these ego-friendly celebs, asks Róisín Ingle . p

  • Bloggers beware

    Profile - Tim O'Reilly : He may have built a successful technology empire, but Irish-American Tim O'Reilly is more concerned with what the internet can do for society than building a personal fortune, writes John Collins . p

  • This Week They Said

    The international zone is not safe, it is just safer than the rest of the city. - US army spokesman Lieut Col Christopher Garver after a suicide bomb attack on the Iraqi parliament. p
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