Top Stories: Ireland's almost complete ban on abortion was challenged before 17 European judges yesterday as a violation of fundamental human rights. Three women, named only as A, B and C, brought a landmark case... The Independent Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:44:11 -0500Ireland's almost complete ban on abortion was challenged before 17 European judges yesterday as a violation of fundamental human rights. Three women, named only as A, B and C, brought a landmark case... The Independent Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:43:42 -0500The Government has won the first crucial votes of Budget 2010.Cuts to VAT and the price of alcohol, while increasing petrol and diesel with a carbon tax were passed in the Dáil last night. The Govern... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:38:16 -0500Ireland's almost complete ban on abortion was challenged before 17 European judges yesterday as a violation of fundamental human rights. Three women, named only as A, B and C, brought a landmark case... New Zealand Herald Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:33:57 -0500'If I had done any wrong I'd be gone' - Dr Walsh Statement issued by the Irish Bishops’ Conference at the end of the first day of their Winter General Meeting in MaynoothWe, as bishops, apologis... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:16 -0500 at the Irish bishops’ conference, MaynoothA small group of reporters camped out in rain in the shadow of the college library – opened by Pope John Paul II – with one question f... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:14 -0500 BISHOP OF Galway Martin Drennan has said he doesn’t feel disturbed by being mentioned in the Dublin diocesan report.Speaking in Maynooth yesterday, he said: “The report says nothing ... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:13 -0500Accused says he was not at scene of attack A DRUG addict who terrorised 13 pensioners in their homes, assaulting and falsely imprisoning some, has been given an 11-year sentence with the final year su... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:11 -0500Addict who terrorised elderly jailed A WOMAN has appeared before the courts to face charges in relation to a stolen payment card used to buy vouchers and clothes at a number of retailers across Dublin... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:09 -0500MARY CAROLAN A CAR dealer jailed last week for contempt of court orders arising from a judgment obtained by the Revenue against him and his brother over €10 million in unpaid taxes has been free... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:08 -0500Addict who terrorised elderly jailed A MIDWIFE has brought a High Court challenge to a recommendation by the Nursing Board that she should be admonished over the care she provided to a mother during t... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:08 -0500Anne Burke of Main Street, Ballybrittas, Co Laois, arriving at the Central Criminal Court yesterday for the second day of her trial for the murder of her husband, Pat Burke, to which she has pleaded n... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:07 -0500Addict who terrorised elderly jailed DUBLIN’S BEAUMONT Hospital has claimed it suffered losses of more than €400,000 as a result of an alleged conspiracy by a former technical services man... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:06 -0500PAT FLYNN CLARE COUNTY Council is seeking the removal of a four-year-old partial boil notice for over 30,000 residents in the Ennis area following confirmation that a new €9 million water treatm... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:05 -0500GORDON DEEGAN A MAROONED loggerhead turtle was yesterday being rehabilitated after being washed up on Doughmore beach in Co Clare.Christened “Imirceach” or “Little Migrant”, th... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:04 -0500LORNA SIGGINS Marine Correspondent GARDAÍ IN north Mayo have said they are no longer investigating the sinking of a boat owned by a shellfish company director and Shell to Sea supporter off Erris... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:03 -0500MARESE McDONAGH FAULTY SIGNALS and a protest combined to stop the traffic on Sligo’s main street yesterday – just hours after it was controversially reopened following more ... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:02 -0500SEÁN Mac CONNELL Agriculture Correspondent THE VALUE of the grocery trade in the State has fallen by 2 per cent in the past year, according to new figures from An Bord Bia.The trade was valued at... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:02 -0500KATHRYN HAYES A FORMER Christian Brother who indecently assaulted 19 young boys at a national school in Limerick in the 1960s has been jailed for two years.Seán John Drummond, with an address at ... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:01 -0500 THREE WOMEN were subjected to indignity, stigmatisation and ill-health as a result of being forced to travel abroad for their abortions, the European Court of Human Rights heard yesterday.Legal ... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:00 -0500 THE GOVERNMENT robustly defended Ireland’s abortion restrictions at the European Court of Human Rights yesterday, insisting they are based on “profound moral values embedded in Irish... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:59 -0500KITTY HOLLAND BYELECTIONS ARE “an entirely unsuitable method of filling casual vacancies” at parliamentary level here, a leading academic in politics has said.Prof Richard Sinnott, of the ... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:58 -0500MICHAEL O'REGAN THERE WERE heated exchanges on the economy between the Taoiseach and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore in the Dáil yesterday.Mr Gilmore said the people’s hard-earned money was bei... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:57 -0500 repeated his warning about public sector pay strikes.He said he understood from media reports that the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions had signalled that it was c... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:56 -0500MARIE O'HALLORAN ANY FUTURE recapitalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and other financial institutions will be separate from the Budget, Taoiseach Brian Cowen... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:56 -0500Witness was approached, court hears EIGHTIES POP star Shakin’ Stevens appeared in court in Ballymena, Co Antrim, yesterday charged with assaulting a photographer last year.The 61-year-old singer... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:55 -0500JOHN FALLON A BUILDER and his two sons will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety on a site in Roscommon which led to the death of a 49-year old Polish worker.Se... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:53 -0500PAUL CULLEN DUBLIN CITY manager John Tierney has promised that any staff found to have acted inappropriately in the allocation of council houses will be punished.Members of the public who have acted i... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:53 -0500CAROL COULTER Legal Affairs Editor AN EXPERT group should be established to develop standards and guidelines for the verification of electronic and digital signatures, according to the Law Reform Comm... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:52 -0500GEORGINA O'HALLORAN A “TERRIFIED” woman called the Garda after her delusional ex-boyfriend, who believed men with guns were after him, grabbed a knife and began waving it at her sister, an... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:51 -0500OLIVIA KELLY WHISTLEBLOWERS MUST be given legal protection so that scandals do not go unreported, anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International (TI) Ireland has said.Speaking on Internatio... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:50 -0500MARESE McDONAGH AN INQUIRY has upheld allegations of bullying and inappropriate behaviour made against a Sligo councillor by a number of officials.In their report, the two investigators ha... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:49 -0500MARY MINIHAN GREEN SENATOR Deirdre de Burca has said it would be “inappropriate” for her to comment on speculation she is being considered for a position on incoming EU commissioner Má... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:47 -0500BARRY ROCHE A CORK City councillor has called on the ESB to introduce a graded system of warnings to indicate the seriousness of flooding following the November floods which caused tens of millions of... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:46 -0500Legal protection for whistleblowers urged A Co Louth construction worker was given a five-year prison term for INLA membership by the Special Criminal Court yesterday.Anthony Lee (33), of Carnbeg, Doy... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:45 -0500CHARLIE TAYLOR GARDAÍ HAVE warned shoppers to take extra care when paying for goods following the arrest of three people earlier this week over the theft and use of debit and credit cards.The thr... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:44 -0500LORNA SIGGINS ONE CENTURY after Sir Ernest Shackleton took to a Dublin stage to describe how he almost reached the South Pole, the event is due to be recreated early next week in the very same venue.T... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:43 -0500KITTY HOLLAND HUMAN RIGHTS workers and poets “with humanist sympathies” were concerned fundamentally with the same endeavour – to bring to light violations and injustices done to hum... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:43 -0500DICK AHLSTROM Science Editor IRISH ASTRONOMERS have contributed to a major astronomical discovery, the first of its kind to be found. It is a hyperactive “starburst” galaxy where stars exp... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:42 -0500KATHRYN HAYES TWO TEENAGE girls were among seven people in custody last night following the fatal shooting of a man in Limerick.Daniel Fitzgerald (24), a carpenter, suffered a number of gunshot wounds... Irish Times Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:40 -0500Ireland's almost complete ban on abortion was challenged before 17 European judges yesterday as a violation of fundamental human rights. Three women, named only as A, B and C, brought a landmark case... The Independent Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:24:02 -0500IRELAND slashed pay for public sector workers, cut welfare provisions and imposed new environmental taxes on fuel yesterday as it unveiled a record 4 billion (£3.6bn) in budget cuts to combat its def... The Scotsman Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:23:51 -0500IRELAND slashed pay for public sector workers, cut welfare provisions and imposed new environmental taxes on fuel yesterday as it unveiled a record 4 billion (£3.6bn) in budget cuts to combat its def... The Scotsman Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:23:45 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Three women living in the Irish Republic challenged the country’s strict abortion law at the Eu... Times Online Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:35:44 -0500Public-sector workers tonight threatened crippling strike action after bearing the brunt of the toughest Budget in the country’s history.In a much-feared €4bn cost-cutting package, severe pay cuts... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:18:25 -0500Opposition parties have tonight accused the Finance Minister of pulling a political stroke with the announcement of a 15% ministerial pay cut in today's Budget.Brian Lenihan has admitted that the 15% ... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:18:25 -0500The SDLP has selected Conall McDevitt to replace Carmel Hanna as an assembly member for South Belfast.Mr McDevitt will take over from Mrs Hanna in the new year after defeating city councillor Bernie K... BBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:05:18 -0500Irish bishops have asked to be forgiven for the "failure of moral leadership" identified by a report into clerical child abuse in Dublin archdiocese.Catholic bishops issued the apology as th... BBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:05:17 -0500Ireland ’s great economic boom. But the bank, larded with bad debt and disgraced by allegations of mismanagement, was taken over by the government last winter. The site’s developer went bu... International Herald Tribune Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:02:35 -0500A Co Roscommon businessman and developer and his two sons have pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws after an incident when a 49-year-old Polish worker was killed when he fell from a tele... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:06:08 -0500British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has announced that the UK VAT rate will return to 17.5% on 1 January as planned, with no other changes in VAT. Speaking on the publication of the ... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:06:06 -0500The closure of the army equitation school is not to go ahead, despite recommendations made in the McCarthy Report. Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea said while some cuts proposed in the McCarthy Repo... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:06:04 -0500The Finance Minister has announced cuts of just over 4% in social welfare rates and cuts in child benefit. There will be no changes in the old age pension. For new applicants, the rate of Job-Seeker... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:06:03 -0500Dec 9 2009 Adverts featuring Tiger Woods have disappeared from prime-time television broadcasts in the United States amid lurid allegations about the golfer's private life. The world's number one ... Loughborough Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:01:01 -0500Dec 9 2009 Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a pay squeeze for millions of public sector workers and a national insurance (NI) hike as he tried to convince nervous markets that he was rebui... Loughborough Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:01:00 -0500Irish Budget 2010: Reactions from accountants, economists and other vested interests to Budget By Finfacts Team Dec 9, 2009 - 6:23:57 PM >... Finfacts Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:56:44 -0500The Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has declared tonight the cuts he will have to make in next year's Budget will be half what he first thought. Mr Lenihan today announced €4bn worth of cutbacks with... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:36 -0500The Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has warned of further reductions to rail and bus services next year due to Budget cuts.The public transport subvention to CIE - which operates Irish Rail, Bus Eirea... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:34 -0500Respond! Housing Association has said that today's Budget has "not gone far enough" to help families in arrears with excessive mortgages. While the extension of the six-month moratorium is welcomed, t... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:33 -0500Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) has welcomed the reduction in excise duty on alcohol saying that it would "have a positive benefit on the Irish food and drink industry".FDII Director Paul Kelly... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:32 -0500The Society of the Irish Industry has welcomed the decision by Government to implement a scrappage scheme to stimulate the 2010 motor trade. Director general of SIMI, Alan Nolan, said: "It gives our m... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:32 -0500The Teachers Union of Ireland has said that the Government is "hell-bent on demoralising State workers" after today's Budget.The TUI, which represents 15,000 members in second-level schools, further e... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:32 -0500Ireland ’s great economic boom. But the bank, larded with bad debt and disgraced by allegations of mismanagement, was taken over by the government last winter. The site’s developer went bu... International Herald Tribune Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:10:06 -0500Three as yet unidentified women filed a lawsuit December 9 in the European Court of Human Rights in Strabourg against Ireland's abortion ban. They claim that the Irish government violates the human ri... Spero News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:47:06 -0500"Last Christmas, it was just me and my thoughts. I got so lonely that I’d have done anything for a bit of company. That’s why I rang 999 and ended up in A and E. I complained of chest... Spero News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:47:04 -0500I will spend Christmas morning in the Welsh town of Abergavenny, surrounded by my wife and her family and friends. If previous years are anything to go by, we can expect a beautiful, crisp day with th... Spero News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:47:02 -0500This year, the image depicted on our Christmas cards here at the Irish Chaplaincy shows the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt. The image of a young mother, child in arms, sitting on the back of a d... Spero News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:47:01 -0500The Opposition has reacted strongly to the Budget, saying the Minister for Finance had missed an opportunity on job growth while targeting the most vulnerable in society. Fine Gael Finance Spokesman ... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:47 -0500Plans to merge the income levies, employee PRSI and the health levy into one 'universal social contribution' in 2011 have been announced. Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said this would be paid by... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:44 -0500Big cuts in excise duties on alcohol have been announced in the Budget. Duty on beer and cider falls by 12 cent, while there is a 14 cent drop in duty on a half-glass of spirits. A bottle of wine fal... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:43 -0500Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has announced that he is setting up a credit review system to ensure that business people would have access to an external review process when they were refused credit b... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:43 -0500The Finance Minister has announced measures aimed at helping homeowners who find themselves in negative equity - owing more than their house is worth. People whose entitlement to mortgage interest re... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:42 -0500The tourism budget for 2010 is more than €155m, a 2% increase on 2009. The money will be used to promote Ireland as a tourist destination. According to the Department of Arts, Sport & Tour... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:41 -0500Ireland will take on the Barbarians at Munster's Thomond Park ground in Limerick on June 4 next year the Irish Rugby Football Union confirmed on Wednesday. The IRFU said the match would serve as a ... Planet Rugby Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:44:12 -0500Citing sources with knowledge of the search on both sides, the paper reports that there is strong interest on the part of both the Irish and the current Cincinnati head coach, but there is "... MSNBC Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:42:18 -0500Dec 9 2009 Two men killed when a train hit a quad bike may have been fleeing the scene of a burglary, police said. The pair, were identified as Trevor Davies, 20, and David Cooper, 24, both from t... Loughborough Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:29 -0500Dec 9 2009 A Muslim man has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder by plotting with Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the convicted ringleader of the foiled plan to blow up passenger jets. Adam Khatib, 22, of... Loughborough Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:29 -0500Dec 9 2009 A pair of Christian hoteliers have been cleared of insulting a Muslim guest for wearing the hijab and berating her for her beliefs. Benjamin and Sharon Vogelenzang denied using threaten... Loughborough Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:28 -0500Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has tried to comfort the nation as he unleashed a punishing Budget with a promise that the worst was over. Revealing an unprecedented four billion euro cost-cutting pac... Independent.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:38:09 -0500Standard & Poor's has downgraded its rating on Bord Gais as a result of the utility group's €500m-plus acquisition last week of SWS Natural Resources, the wind farm operator. Independent.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:38:08 -0500Three women filed a lawsuit in a European court against Ireland's abortion ban Wednesday, claiming the government violates the human rights of pregnant women by forcing them to travel abroad for abort... Fox News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:35:50 -0500Builders' lobby group the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) said the decision to cut nearly €1bn from the Government's capital investment programme is "a blow to jobs (that will) significantly ... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:43 -0500The Dutch are seeking the extradition of an Irish man wanted on charges attempting to traffic heroin and cannabis from The Netherlands to Ireland. The Dutch are seeking the surrender of Martin Spencer... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:43 -0500A 21-year-old Dublin man died from blood loss caused by a stab wound to the heart, the Central Criminal Court heard today.Brian Rattigan (aged 28), Cooley Rd, Drimnagh, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty ... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:43 -0500Pensioners will see an annual fall in their income of €600 as a result of Budget 2010, CEO of the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament Máiréad Hayes said this evening.Ms Hayes said pensioners' income ... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:42 -0500Family carers are "outraged and bitterly disappointed" at the 4.1% cut to social welfare payments to all carers announced in today's Budget.The budgetary measure equates to a reduction of €8.80 per ... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:42 -0500The umbrella group of Ireland’s development NGOs Dóchas has expressed disappointment at the Government’s decision to cut the overseas aid budget again. Dóchas director Hans Zomer said: "Once aga... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:42 -0500Chambers Ireland has said that today's Budget has the potential to "significantly boost confidence" and "get Ireland on the road to recovery". Ian Talbot, Chambers Ireland Chief Executive, said: "We e... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:42 -0500Environmental lobby group Friends of the Earth has welcomed the introduction of a carbon tax in today's Budget.However, the body claimed that the tax level "falls far short of what is needed to reflec... Breaking News.ie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:31:41 -0500Along the way, I had chipped in my own sixpence worth including my first Echo story, reprinted here from the April 30, 1988 issue under a headline stating that the campaign had taken on something cruc... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:39 -0500December 9, 2009 Father Sean Mc Manus was born February 6, 1944 in the townland of Clonliff, in the parish of Kinawley, County Fermanagh. The parish of Kinawley is divided by the Border and is partly... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:38 -0500One presumes that the GAA honchos who have come up with the latest proposed set of rule changes are familiar with McDermott's research and one wonders why more people in the game aren't outraged by it... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:38 -0500December 9, 2009 Pat Doherty is the director of corporate responsibility at the New York City Comptroller's Office, and in that role is well known for his work on fair employment practices in Norther... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:37 -0500December 9, 2009 Portlaoise duly secured a seventh Leinster club football title when they defeated Garrycastle of Westmeath by 1-9 to 1-5 in Tullamore last weekend. Although a late goal by the losing... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:37 -0500December 9, 2009 Silver is the appropriate gift for a 25th anniversary and in the case of the MacBride Principles it is an especially appropriate element give the fact that the campaign that carried ... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:36 -0500December 9, 2009 Many people seem to have made out handsomely in the wake of Tiger Woods's Escalade escapade of Nov. 27. In fact, count Graeme McDowell in, despite the fact that he has neither breast... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:36 -0500December 9, 2009 The last founding member of the world-famous Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, a quartet who changed the public reception and perception of Irish folk music forever, Liam Clancy succu... Irish Echo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:57:35 -0500The Commercial Court has reserved its decision on an application for judgment against developer Bernard McNamara for €62 million. The action is being taken by private investors who invested in... RTE News Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:19:49 -0500Aer Lingus have said that the savings offered by the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association was not enough. The level of savings offered by the IALPA fell significantly below what was required by the comp... RTE Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:19:48 -0500Dec 9 2009 Former deputy prime minister John Prescott will appear in sit-com Gavin And Stacey. The BBC said Mr Prescott will attend man-eater Nessa's wedding in the final episode of the third seri... 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