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Mother lost temper and scalded toddler
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
A YOUNG woman yesterday pleaded guilty to assaulting her 14-month-old daughter by shoving her arm into a bucket of hot water when she lost her temper with the little girl as she tried to clean her kitchen floor.
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Soldiers delayed in Chad for 48 hours over fault with flight
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
FIFTY ARMY Rangers and 60 military construction personnel are due back from Chad this morning following a 48-hour delay in their return to Ireland.
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In Short
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
A round up of today's other stories in brief...
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Wilson 'flat earth' view criticised
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
THE SDLP has deplored what it described as the “flat earth” views of the North’s new DUP Environment Minister Sammy Wilson while the Greens said the new Minister should refrain from commenting on climate change until he had read his briefing notes.
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NI taxi driver charged with people trafficking
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
A TAXI driver appeared in court in Antrim yesterday accused of involvement in the trafficking of people from outside the EU.
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Historic clock tower due to be restored collapses
10.06.2008 23:53
ireland.com
ONE OF Northern Ireland’s best-known historic structures has collapsed just two weeks after a process to compulsorily purchase the building was completed.
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Monitors not working in cosmetic surgery death
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
MONITORS ATTACHED to a woman who died hours after she underwent surgery were not working properly, a nurse told an inquest yesterday.
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Checklist for obesity surgery is vital
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: Two basic approaches are taken to medical intervention for patients
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Maternity hospital to pay brain-damaged boy €4.5m
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
A PERMANENTLY brain-damaged boy is to receive €4.5 million, plus costs, in settlement of his marathon legal action against the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, alleging negligence in the management of his birth. The hospital now faces legal costs estimated at €4 million.
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€63,000 for pizzeria manager
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
SARAH LYNN McKenna, a former pizza restaurant manager, who was “embarrassed and humiliated” by her employer, has been awarded €63,000 compensation for unfair dismissal at the Dublin Circuit Court.
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Four schools seek order to cease teacher scheme
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
FOUR PRIVATE Dublin Protestant secondary schools have claimed before the High Court that a teachers’ redeployment scheme introduced last year by the Department of Education interferes with their autonomy over whom they can employ, and with the rights of parents to have their children educated according to their religious faith.
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Traveller family loses High Court claim against council
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
AN EXTENDED Traveller family has lost their High Court claim that Dublin City Council is required to provide group housing accommodation for them at a site at St Dominick’s Park in Belcamp, Coolock.
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Court action settled over wife's death
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
THE HUSBAND of a woman who died as a result of a brain tumour has settled his High Court action alleging negligence in the treatment of his wife by St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin.
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Irish beef exports set to reach €1 .6bn
10.06.2008 23:52
ireland.com
THE VALUE of Irish beef exports will increase to €1.6 billion and over 97 per cent of this will come from EU markets, Bord Bia’s European Meat Forum heard yesterday.
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