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France and Germany put the squeeze on Cowen
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: EU leaders expect the Taoiseach to resolve the 'Irish situation' before elections next June
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PM warns ratification will depend on court review
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
CZECH DELAY: CZECH PRIME minister Mirek Topolanek made a reluctant promise yesterday to work to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, but warned that a final decision may be out of his hands.
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British ratification to await court ruling
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
UK HIGH COURT JUDGMENT: BRITISH PRIME minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that the UK cannot formally ratify the Lisbon Treaty until after a high court ruling on a bid by Tory fundraiser Stuart Wheeler to force a British referendum.
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Timeline
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
How the EU got here and what happens next?
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Lethal toxin Ricin 'found in alleged conspirator's cell'
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
THE JURY in the hitman trial in the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday that the lethal toxin Ricin was found in the prison cell of a former Las Vegas poker dealer accused of conspiring with Sharon Collins to kill her partner and his two sons.
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Knife-wielding thief drank tea with 'very nice' victim
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
A THIEF who drank tea with a Chinese woman after terrorising her at knife-point in her apartment said that in the end he was unable to take the computer and video she offered him.
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Man acquitted in copyright case after search warrant ruled invalid
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
A TALLAGHT taxi driver has been acquitted by direction of the judge of infringing copyright through running a counterfeit DVD and CD operation.
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Senior garda refuses to reveal who gave details on McFarlane
20.06.2008 23:29
ireland.com
THE FORMER head of Garda intelligence yesterday refused to reveal to a court the source of the information that led to the arrest of former IRA leader Brendan “Bik” McFarlane over his alleged kidnapping of supermarket chief Don Tidey.
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Court quashes man's conviction for assault
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
THE COURT of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction and five-year sentence imposed on a doorman in relation to an incident outside a pub in Dublin in which a man sustained a serious brain injury.
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In Short
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
A round up of today's other court stories in brief...
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Miriam Lord's Week
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
Minster's late engagement; Surprise for golden oldie; Dáil broods over baby ducks; Lisbon blame game; Mary's maths test
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Sentence for sex with child criticised
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
RAPE CRISIS Network Ireland director Fiona Neary yesterday strongly criticised a two-year sentence with 12 months suspended handed down to a 48-year-old man who plied a 15-year-old girl with drink before videotaping himself having sex with her.
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Mother and infant who died in crash laid to rest
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
A TEENAGE mother and her child were buried in the same coffin yesterday following their deaths earlier this week in a car crash in Co Donegal.
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Farmfest attracts 30,000 visitors
20.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
THERE MAY be a lot of doom and gloom surrounding the future of agriculture but there was not a sign of it yesterday when up to 30,000 farmers and their families visited the Mellows Campus in Athenry for the Teagasc Farmfest ’08.
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