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Taoiseach denies he is to blame for economic downturn
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
OPPOSITION CLAIMS that he was responsible for the economic downturn were rejected by Taoiseach Brian Cowen during sharp exchanges yesterday.
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FF, FG clash over who has best victims' rights plans
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
THERE WERE sharp exchanges in the Dáil between Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Fine Gael children’s spokesman Alan Shatter over whose proposals for victims’ rights were better.
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Decentralisation to continue - Cowen
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen insisted that the Government’s decentralisation proposals would go ahead in the face of strong Opposition criticism.
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Ahern says Alcohol Bill's reforms limit access
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
PROPOSALS IN the Intoxicating Liquor Bill, introduced in the Dáil last night, “represent a coherent and carefully-balanced package of practical reforms which are designed to reduce access to alcohol”, according to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.
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It's not a return to the 1980s - we're up a terribly modern creek
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
DÁIL SKETCH: LIKE OUR recent Eurovision turkey, the economy is stuffed.
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FF Senator says parliamentarians must play part in 18-month pay pause
24.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
SEANAD REPORT: THERE WAS a need for an 18-month pay pause right across the economy, but particularly in the public service which had benefited enormously over the last decade when times had been good, a Government member said.
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Fast-tracking of specific developments approved
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE LOCAL GOVERNMENT: PROPOSED NEW planning amendments by Minister for the Environment John Gormley, relating to schools and renewable energy, have been approved by the Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
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Woman accused of hiring hitman to kill partner asked DPP to drop case
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A WOMAN accused of hiring a hitman to kill her partner and his two sons wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions asking him to drop the case against her for the good of her family, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.
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Letters tell story of perplexed, worried woman
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
NOT MANY people know this, but criminal suspects are entitled to write to the DPP to plead their case. When Sharon Collins discovered this, she wrote to him three times.
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Man gets 10 years for rape of his daughter
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A MEATH father who raped his then 20-year-old daughter after both had consumed a lot of alcohol has been jailed for 10 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.
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Allergan wins Botox case
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A COMPANY whose Irish operation manufactures the worldwide supply of Botox, used widely as an anti-wrinkle agent, has won its High Court claim that a Dublin firm has infringed its trademark by using a similar name in one of its cosmetic products.
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Pilot says Ryanair forced him to leave
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A PILOT has claimed that Ryanair subjected him to a “systematic and ongoing campaign of harassment”, which forced him to resign.
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€250,000 award for medical negligence
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A MAN has secured some €250,000 in damages from the High Court for serious injuries suffered after he contracted severe pancreatitis as a result of medical treatment which was admitted to be negligent.
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Man who stabbed twin brother to death gets 3½-year sentence
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A MAN who fatally stabbed his twin brother “in a blind rage” must live with the fact that he also killed his soul mate and best friend, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Dundalk for the first time heard yesterday.
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€4.35m awarded to boy after HSE admits negligence at birth
24.06.2008 23:27
ireland.com
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy who is permanently brain-damaged, blind and quadriplegic as a result of admitted negligence in the circumstances of his birth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, has secured €4.35 million in settlement of his High Court action.
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