Top Stories: Dec 7 2009 The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher have described their anguish at the loss of their beloved "Mez" as a "life sentence". The Kerchers have flown home from the trial... Loughborough Echo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:03 -0500THE Government has been urged not to cut supports for disabled students as new figures show a 55pc increase in the number of disabled people entering third level education. Almost 1,600 disabled stude... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:43 -0500TAOISEACH Brian Cowen was dramatically challenged last night by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to push ahead with a major public sector reform plan in this week's Budget. It has also emerged that public... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:43 -0500Brian Cowen is set to take a 14pc cut to his overall salary in Wednesday's Budget in an attempt to show that politicians are also willing "to take pain".The cut means his salary will have dropped from... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:41 -0500THE hospital overtime bill in the health service is already more than €171m for this year despite efforts to keep it under control. Reducing the overtime costs in the sector was a key element of... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:39 -0500PROPOSALS to introduce a carbon tax on fuel to encourage a switch to public transport will only result in people driving across the Border for cheaper petrol and diesel, a motoring organisation claime... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:37 -0500Department of Justice confirmed it will not renew its expensive lease on Pinebrook House on Harcourt Street in 2010.The building, which takes up the site of several four-storey houses on the prime cit... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:36 -0500Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is currently checking to see if other staff were also invited by the semi-state company to watch the match, which Ireland lost 1-0.The issue ... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:35 -0500Hector O hEochagain are set to host a new radio show on 2fm from early next year as the station undergoes a revamp.The pair -- childhood friends from... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:34 -0500Mr Grace developed type II diabetes in 1994 and his latest illness is connected to that health problem. "I'm a great believer in the regular check-up and while I was being examined I pointed out this ... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:32 -0500COMMUTERS are furious over cuts to rail services that means there are fewer trains in the capital at rush hour -- and say that when they do arrive they are overcrowded. Rail users say... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:31 -0500THE names of many priests found guilty of child sex abuse are not on the sex offenders' register because it was established after they were convicted.As a result, the whereabouts of many of the priest... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:29 -0500Pope Benedict XVI , according to church law.Normally, a bishop is only required to submit his resignation on reaching 75. But section 41.2 of the Code of Canon Law states that a bishop who "because of... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:28 -0500Kilkenny , was chided by the Murphy report for procrastinating about a 'Fr Cicero' by allowing him to work in the diocese's marriage tribunal and waiting two years before sending the pervert cleric fo... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:27 -0500THE latest priests to be ordained into the Church were yesterday praised as courageous for joining the Irish clergy at one of the most difficult moments in its history.Amid the continuing fallout from... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:25 -0500Archbishop Diarmuid Martin asking them to clarify their positions. Dr Martin said he had received a number of responses from the bishops he had written to last week. Speaking to the... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:23 -0500A PRIEST who left his archbishop embarrassed after a foul-mouthed tirade against the Revenue Commissioners because of a €433,000 personal tax settlement is to take a break from his ministry.Howe... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:22 -0500Keith Henderson were hotly pursued by television crews, photographers and reporters over the weekend. The pair had claimed that the Virgin Mary would appear in the Knock Basilica at 3pm on Saturday --... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:21 -0500Bishop Donal Murray 's parish supported him yesterday as his resignation looked imminent -- but they did not offer a round of applause after his statement was read out asking them to pray for him. Par... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:15 -0500Ireland in the good times. At the height of the property boom recruitment firms were crying out for builders.But since the collapse in the market, recruitment companies have changed tack. One speciali... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:13 -0500THE plight of a ginger kitten called Squirt and four pups -- dumped in a plastic bag in a river and left to die -- prompted a heartfelt response from the public. Hundreds phoned the... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:13 -0500Joy Lawlor Doyle has been on the waiting list since September after being diagnosed with a hole in a heart, but doctors had to cancel the procedure last week due to the number of emergency cases. "We ... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:12 -0500Liam Clancy 's remarkable journey was remembered in his hometown over the weekend as the drama group that he helped to found put on an emotional production and dedicated it to him. The Brewery Lane Th... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:11 -0500IMMIGRATION officials and gardai have uncovered a scam in which a Pakistani national used a false name in an attempt to secure visas for his alleged wife and six children.The fraudster assumed the ide... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:09 -0500THE Government is to defend Ireland's controversial abortion ban in a landmark case this week in the European Court of Human Rights.And if Ireland is found to be in violation of the European Conventio... Independent.ie Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:22:08 -0500See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv... Finfacts Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:20:17 -0500The City of Dublin is working on a specific plan to encourage denser development in its downtown core — a 284-acre area city officials believe is ripe for more multi-family housing, retail and t... Business Journal Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:16:38 -0500Dec 7 2009 Little Britain comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams and I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! double act Ant and Dec have made their way into the latest edition of Who's Who. The soc... Loughborough Echo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:01 -0500Ireland 2009: People of the Year, Brass Neck and Golden Fleece Awards! By Michael Hennigan, Founder and Editor of Finfacts Dec 7, 2009 - 3:54:57 AM >... Finfacts Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:56:30 -0500Dec 7 2009 Artists whose works have included a heap of powder from an atomised jet engine, rocking egg-headed figures and sculptures fashioned from coal dust are due to learn which of them has won ... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:27:04 -0500Dec 7 2009 The former housekeeper of Attorney General Baroness Scotland is due to appear in court on immigration charges. Loloahi Tapui is accused of using a false passport, fraud and overstaying ... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:27:03 -0500Dec 7 2009 One of the most senior British Army officers charged over the death of an Iraqi prisoner is due to give evidence to the public inquiry into the incident. Hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, ... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:27:01 -0500Dec 7 2009 The Government should consider building an extra runway at Gatwick Airport rather than Stansted, a report from MPs has said. The MPs added they were "not convinced a national case for a... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:26:59 -0500Dec 7 2009 Politicians face a "huge challenge" to convince people that action on global warming should be a priority, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has said, ahead of crunch UN ta... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:26:57 -0500Dec 7 2009 There are no plans to prosecute the producers of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! over alleged animal cruelty on the programme, Australian police have said. Charges are being broug... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:55:15 -0500Ireland's abortion laws will be challenged in a landmark European court hearing this week which could overturn the Republic's sovereign right to protect unconditionally "the life of the unborn".Three ... Independent.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:53:13 -0500 A SMALL group of lay Catholics delivered a letter to the office of the papal nuncio on Saturday calling on the pope to hold an inquiry into the failure of bishops to protect children.The open le... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:57 -0500 ARCHBISHOP OF Armagh Cardinal Seán Brady told RTÉ News in an interview, broadcast on Saturday, he was confident Bishop Donal Murray will “do the right thing” in terms of co... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:56 -0500 BISHOP OF Limerick Donal Murray told parishioners he is “reflecting on the decision he now has to make” in a statement read out at Masses across the diocese over the weekend.Calls ha... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:55 -0500 THE CATHOLIC primate Cardinal Seán Brady has criticised the lack of response by the Vatican and papal nunciature to correspondence from the Murphy commission.Speaking to... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:53 -0500 THE IRISH Muslim community will conduct a collection at the State’s mosques in aid of those affected by the recent floods.Members of the Muslim community recently formed the Irish Muslim F... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:52 -0500 PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has appealed to those with the power to make life easier for flood victims to respond swiftly.The President said she was thinking of insurance companies as well as statut... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:52 -0500 AS FLOOD levels remain critical in parts of south and east Galway, HSE West’s principal psychologist says people directly affected face an “enormous challenge” in coping with p... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:51 -0500 WHILE CORK city remains on alert against further flooding because of high tides, water levels are receding elsewhere as the massive clean-up gets under way across the country.A high tide passed ... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:50 -0500 The court found a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) and of Article 8 (right to respect for family life) in the case of a father who was denied a judicial review of a court ... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:49 -0500The Competition Authority argued that the press release advocating a price freeze, 'by removing the element of uncertainty in relation to prices . . . removes a vital element of the competitive proces... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:48 -0500European award for dead Russian lawyer Over the last 20 years, international family law has come to play an increasing part in Irish law, writes URSULA KILKELLY... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:47 -0500BARRY ROCHE Southern Correspondent A PRIEST who made a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners for more than €400,000 has been ordered by Archbishop Dermot Clifford to cease all commercial act... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:46 -0500SEÁN MAC CONNELL Agriculture Correspondent THE FORMER president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, Pat O’ Rourke, is to challenge the current president, Jackie Cahill, for th... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:45 -0500TOM SHIEL in Knock UP TO 600 people turned up at the Knock shrine in Co Mayo on Saturday hoping for an apparition of Our Lady. Although the basilica was half empty, self-proclaimed visionaries Joe Col... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:44 -0500TONY CLAYTON-LEA THE NARROW roads leading into Dingle didn’t know what to make of the Snow Patrol trucks. The last time the Northern Irish/Scottish band were in this area, they stayed at a winds... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:43 -0500Listening exercise proves a success with gardaí and youths A man is being questioned about the seizure in Co Dublin of cannabis resin valued at an estimated €500,000. His car was stopped an... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:41 -0500Listening exercise proves a success with gardaí and youths The number of students with disabilities going on to third-level education has risen by more than 55 per cent in the past three years, a... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:41 -0500Listening exercise proves a success with gardaí and youths Gardaí in Cork are attempting to track down two raiders involved in separate incidents in the city.One raider held up two employees... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:40 -0500 Cuts to ministerial salaries will be part of Wednesday’s budgetNEVER IN the history of the State has a budget been awaited with such trepidation.Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan’s ... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:39 -0500SIMON CARSWELL A RECEIVER appointed by Investec bank to seize a Dublin property co-owned by Fianna Fáil Senator Ivor Callely is expected to try to maximise the value of the site, possibly by reap... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:38 -0500MICHAEL O'REGAN and HARRY McGEE GOVERNMENT CHIEF whip Pat Carey has said he believes Government backbenchers are prepared for Wednesday’s tough budget.“We have spent a lot of time outlinin... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:37 -0500CARL O'BRIEN Chief Reporter PATIENTS INVOLUNTARILY detained in psychiatric hospitals last year received hundreds of treatments of electric shock therapy against their will.Official statistics compiled... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:36 -0500PATRICK SMYTH THE IRISH Times and 55 other newspapers in 45 countries today launch an unprecedented joint appeal to the opening of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.The common editorial, ... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:36 -0500Horslips playing one of only two comeback gigs in the O2 on Saturday 30 years after the launch of their first album, Short Stories/Tall Tales.Photograph: Rob Hearne... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:35 -0500DAN KEENAN Northern News Editor CAMPAIGNERS SEEKING civil partnerships legislation similar to that in Northern Ireland have used the Belfast-Dublin train to highlight their case.The Civil Partnership ... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:34 -0500BARRY ROCHE Southern Correspondent in Dungarvan FOLK SINGER Liam Clancy had a special gift that enabled him to relate intimately with his audience and which will ensure his music will live on after hi... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:33 -0500Civil Partnership Bill changes sought MARY MADDOCK (62) doesn’t remember anything about the first time she received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Memory loss was the biggest side-effect of th... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:32 -0500ALISON HEALY THE DISAPPEARANCE of Fáilte Ireland employee Damian O’Brien more than one week ago has brought back difficult memories for the family of Trevor Deely.Mr Deely (22), a bank empl... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:32 -0500CONOR LALLY Crime Correspondent GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING a gun attack in which a man was wounded a number of times have appealed for the public’s help in catching the attacker.The 23-year-old v... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:31 -0500CAROL COULTER Legal Affairs Editor THE RIGHTS of the child must be paramount in any regulation of the assisted human reproduction industry (AHR), according to the Iona Institute, which promotes marria... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:29 -0500MICHAEL O'REGAN Parliamentary Correspondent GOVERNMENT CHIEF whip Pat Carey is to discuss with Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish early this week his support for Wednesday’s budget.Mr Care... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:28 -0500FIONA GARTLAND SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP is “dead and buried” following the failure of negotiations with Government on cost-cutting in the public sector, unions have said.David Begg, general secr... Irish Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:15:27 -0500Pipe bombs have been thrown through the windows of two cars in Londonderry, police in Northern Ireland have said.The attacks on the parked vehicles happened 10 minutes apart in the city's Creggan dist... BBC Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:50:24 -0500By Jonathan Mullin. Talks continued in Ennis on Sunday night in a bid to find a resolution to the ongoing hurling crisis. Manager Mike McNamara met with the Clare inter-county panel earlier Sunday e... RTE Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:49:42 -0500Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness tonight called on First Minister Peter Robinson to publish his list of pre-conditions for devolving policing powers to Northern Ireland. Amid a deepen... RTE News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:49:34 -0500A murder probe was launched in Belfast tonight after a teenager fell from a ninth storey apartment in a city centre, the PSNI have said. James Murray, 19, from Glendowan Grove, in the Lagmore area of... RTE News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:49:33 -0500Dec 6 2009 Alistair Darling has left the door open to a windfall tax on bankers' bonuses amid reports that the move could be central to this week's Pre-Budget Report. The Chancellor warned the bet... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:45:33 -0500Dec 6 2009 The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher have returned home pledging to try and get on with their lives. The Kerchers were greeted by a waiting crowd of press as they fle... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:18:36 -0500Dec 6 2009 Senior Labour figures have recoiled from attacks on David Cameron's privileged upbringing after the Tory leader branded them "spiteful". Ministers said Mr Cameron's schooling at Eton wa... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:18:35 -0500Nine people have been rescued from the water at Lough Mahon in Cork today.The group, made up of rowers from UCC Rowing Club, were out in rough conditions when their boat sank.They were rescued by the ... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:11:28 -0500Police in Co Tyrone are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a man in Cookstown. The 29-year-old's body was found in a house in the Tullywiggan area of the town shortly bef... RTE News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:39:40 -0500London, Dec. 6 : Republican terrorists are 'highly likely' to strike British troops in Northern Ireland during Christmas, secret documents have revealed. New Kerala Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:37:41 -0500Middlesex bowler Dermott Monteith has died at the age of 66.Monteith represented Ireland 76 times, captaining them on 38 occasions, in a 19-year career from 1965 to 1984. He remains the country's lead... The Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:32:32 -0500, Ireland's all-time highest wicket-taker, has died at the age of 66. In a remarkable career he played 76 times for Ireland, taking 326 wickets at 17.37, including 47 in five matches in 1971, with... Cricinfo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:29:51 -0500An army of animal lovers took to the capital’s streets today to call for tougher laws to protect their four-legged friends.Hundreds of campaigners gathered on O’Connell Street to fight for harsher... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:28:45 -0500A patient went missing from his hospital ward, sparking a police search, a health trust has confirmed.The 68-year-old man was being treated in the Royal Victoria Hospital when he disappeared on Sunday... BBC Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:49 -0500The Bishop of Limerick has today asked his parishioners to pray for him as he considers his position.A letter from Dr Donal Murray was read out at all masses in the diocese of Limerick today.The Bisho... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:05:12 -0500A man has been injured after shots were fired through a house window in the Northe police said today.He was hit in the leg as unknown assailants opened fire on the property in the Ballymurphy area of ... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:05:12 -0500'); } writeAuthHeader(179, true, 'http://www.loughboroughecho.net/registration/index.cfm', null, false, '', 2 ); //]]>... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:48:30 -0500Israeli authorities deny Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin permission to visit the impoverished coastal sliver of Gaza which has long been under an Israeli siege. Speaking at the Oirea... Palestine Chronicle Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:00:24 -0500Dec 6 2009 Commons Speaker John Bercow insisted that he was not the author of a guide to luring drunken women into bed. Reports claiming that he had penned the The John Bercow Guide to Understandi... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:27:04 -0500Dec 6 2009 Three more men have been arrested after a man was shot dead and robbed of £10,000 cash and a laptop, police said. Khurram Ashraf, 30, was blasted once in the stomach after he and ... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:27:03 -0500Dec 6 2009 The UN's top climate official has conceded that hacked e-mails from climate scientists had damaged the image of global warming research but said evidence of a warming Earth is solid. In... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:27:02 -0500The St Vincent de Paul Society has launched its annual appeal for direct financial help in the run-up to Christmas.The society has thanked the public for donating generously to flood victims - more th... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:20:22 -0500Dec 6 2009 Unemployment will continue to rise in the new year, Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper predicted. With figures showing almost 2.5 million people out of work in the three months t... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:08:53 -0500Dec 6 2009 The Queen has warned newspapers against publishing paparazzi photos of members of the Royal family, it has emerged. The hard line follows growing exasperation about intrusion into the p... Loughborough Echo Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:08:52 -0500The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland says he will meet Pope Benedict XVI next week to discuss a devastating report that found the church covered up clerical child abuse for decades.Cardina... eTaiwan News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:04:30 -0500The Bishop of Limerick says he is reflecting on the decision he now has to make and has asked mass goers for their continued prayers - especially this week.Expectation has grown that Dr Donal Murray w... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:01:39 -0500National Irish Bank is reported to be preparing job losses and branch closures.Earlier this month, Permanent TSB announced plans for 120 job cuts and 11 branch closures.National Irish Bank, which is o... Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:01:38 -0500There was no winner of last night's Lotto jackpot of just more than €4m.The numbers drawn were 1, 5, 7, 32, 38, 44 and the bonus number was 36.Wednesday's jackpot is now heading for around €4.5m. Breaking News.ie Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:42:18 -0500The sudden death of a man in west Belfast is no longer being treated as suspicious, the police have said.The body of the man, who was in his 20s, was found at a house at Aitnamona Crescent at about 22... BBC Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:29:58 -0500BELFAST, N. 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