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WITH a little kiss on his son’s cheek he was a free man. Just before 2pm, Sean FitzPatrick strode out of Bray Garda station, showing little obvious signs of having been through the ringer.
GARDAÍ are set to arrest three more bank bosses as the Anglo investigation enters the endgame.
DISILLUSIONED clerical abuse victims say they are expecting little from the Pope’s pastoral letter to the Irish people, due to be released today.
A MANAGER at the Irish National Stud (INS) has told the High Court how repeated sexual assaults and bullying at work drove her to attempt suicide.
IT wasn’t Ruby or Tony, Kauto Star or Denman — but it was an Irish jockey from Co Galway who crossed the finish line to take the Gold Cup and win the most anticipated race of the Cheltenham festival.
THE possibility that a €19,000 bonus given in error by a state board may never be recovered from an ex-employee has been condemned by the head of the Oireachtas spending watchdog.
AER LINGUS management and the IMPACT trade union are expected to negotiate ‘clarifications’ to a €97 million cost-cutting plan at the former national airline which will allow cabin crew to be re-balloted on acceptance of the deal.
DESPITE a continued fall in the price of crude oil, motorists are being warned to expect a continued “slow increase” in the price of fuel because of fluctuating currency values, as well as the recent introduction of a carbon tax.
THE Dublin passport office closed yesterday afternoon as part of an ongoing campaign of industrial action by civil servants.
THE Health Service Executive has asked all hospitals to confirm they have no unopened referral letters from GPs seeking treatment for their patients.
SHUTTING down the Combat Poverty Agency (CPA) did not lead to any significant cost savings, the opposition claimed last night after it emerged the Government is still paying €400,000 in rent for empty offices after the agency moved out.
AN Algerian man arrested in the Swedish terror plot last week was remanded in custody while gardaí seek to establish his true identity.
AN industrial dispute has left some residents of the Ballymun flat complex in north Dublin without lifts for six weeks.
THE euthanasia advocate nicknamed ‘Dr Death’ expounded his theories on voluntary suicide in Dublin yesterday, with expected protesters nowhere to be seen and the meeting instead soundtracked, occasionally, by laughter.
THE family of murdered Limerick man Roy Collins were surprised by the release of notorious gang member Wayne Dundon from prison yesterday and fear for their safety.
A HEN night celebration led to a party-goer cutting her right buttock on a collapsing toilet bowl in a West Cork hotel, it was claimed yesterday.
ABOLITION of the €10 travel tax was pledged by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny last night as he moved to put jobs creation at the centre of the political stage.
THEY are just unpacking their suitcases after St Patrick’s Day junkets.
A FRUSTRATED Denis O’Brien upped his attack on the Moriarty Tribunal by declaring that hundreds of thousands of documents had been concealed from legal teams and insisted that lawyers for the inquiry needed to be sanctioned.
A GARDA arrested over the leaking of a letter that led to the resignation of former junior minister Trevor Sargent has been released without charge, the force said.
THE Pope will address Ireland today in an unprecedented letter apologising for widespread Catholic child abuse.
THE Catholic Church paedophile scandal is moving like a contagion from one country to another, but the implications of the German complaints are potentially more damaging to the Vatican than any others.
THE Vatican has denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the Church in Europe and again defended the Pope’s handling of the crisis.
ITALIAN bishops from the northern diocese of Bolzano have apologised to victims and promised to co-operate with prosecutors.
A SHAMANIC practitioner has cleared hundreds of spirits from a haunted house in Cork city, he said last night.
THE parents of a 16-year-old boy who died at the Mater Hospital in Dublin after 72 days in intensive care have lost their High Court bid to overturn a coroner’s verdict that the cause of death was a rare brain disorder due to an underlying condition.
A YOUNG man accused of murdering a retired barman told gardaí there was another person present in the house at the time of the tragedy.
A FORTY-YEAR-OLD South African man who was yesterday given a seven-year jail sentence for having more than €134,000 worth of cannabis for sale or supply, still protested his innocence, the Circuit Criminal Court was told in Tralee, Co Kerry.
A YOUNG man has reaped a reward for foregoing an acting career to take on an engineering degree.
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