A goal from Stuart Lowndes on 54 minutes proved decisive, as Dunboyne captured the Meath SFC for the first time since 2005 at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

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This is a family, not a cartel.

Cathy Desmond talks to Liam Byrne, who is to bring the sound of the viola da gamba to Kilkenny as part of the city’s arts festival.

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Legal aid has been refused for six individuals allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime gang in cases involving the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).

Applications brought by six people allegedly linked to the Kinahan crime organisation to have their legal costs covered by the State in proceedings against the Criminal Assets Bureau have been dismissed by the High Court.

The High Court has been asked to approve legal aid to six individuals who want to oppose claims by CAB that certain assets seized by the Bureau as part of its investigation into the Kinahan crime cartel are the proceeds of crime.

Officials at a mosque in England have answered the "hatred and division" of an English Defence League (EDL) rally by hosting a "best of British" tea party.

The High Court has cleared the way for the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to sell assets worth €500,000, including several cars, which it believes are linked to the Kinahan organised crime gang.

Greta Kelly (Letters, January 15) suggests her only option for a vote would be the “honest & principled” Greens, and writes off the smaller parties, groupings and independents as a result.

In an article in the Irish Examiner (December 2 ), Joe Gill lays the blame for the Irish Water fiasco at the feet of ‘the cohort who have made Irish Water a cause in Irish politics’.

Michael Mernagh wrote to suggest that combining the collection of Local Property Tax and water charges would be efficient and — in his view — might evaporate the protests.

Alan Kelly claimed that anyone who registered for the so-called “Water Conservation Grant” without paying Irish Water would be “pulling a fast one”. This outrageous slander is despite the grant being a legal entitlement.

The media seems to have completely accepted Irish Water’s 43% figure for payment, and I am at a complete loss as to understand why.

I listened, incredulously, to a news segment re the ECB report on Irish banks.

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Details of a new festival of music, art, and conversation curated by The National’s Bryce Dessner to mark the 160th anniversary of Cork Opera Houseare set to be announced next week.

A ComRes post-debate poll for ITV News had on the UK general election TV debate last night had Ed Miliband, David Cameron and Nigel Farage tied in first place on 21%, with Sturgeon on 20%, Clegg on 9%, Bennett on 5% and Wood on 2%.

Over the past week you ran an article that promised a Q&A re the new water charges; I was looking forward to reading it, to find out the facts.

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I was disgusted to hear Michael Noonan recently utter that despicable phrase “go mad” that was used by FF to implicate us all in the disasters that brought the country to its knees.

Valgeir Sigurdsson is an Icelandic composer-musician and the founder of the Bedroom Community label and collective. He is set to bring a haunting, spare set to Skibbereen Arts Festival on Aug 4.

An attack at a mosque in which three men and a police officer were stabbed is thought to have happened after one worshipper turned on others, MP Liam Byrne has said.

The chief executive of bailed-out lender Ulster Bank’s owners, Royal Bank of Scotland, already under political pressure to give back a £1 million (€1.2m) bonus for 2011, could get eight times as much in future under his current contract.

FORMER Davis Cup player John McGahon last night followed current Ireland representative Barry King out of the Irish Close Championships, at the Donnybrook Club.

Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

New UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne unveiled plans for an immediate £6.25bn (€7.27bn) cut in “wasteful” public spending today – insisting the Government was “getting on with the job” of tackling the deficit.

Britain is facing public spending cuts on a scale unseen for a generation whoever wins the general election, an influential think-tank warned today as it accused the main parties of failing to come clean with voters.

The UK economy recorded its sharpest decline in more than 50 years during the first quarter of 2009, figures showed today.

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was today facing a fight for his political life after James Purnell dramatically quit the cabinet and urged him to stand down for the good of the Labour Party.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was today faced with the task of picking up the pieces of his shattered cabinet and fashioning a reshuffle which can restore his authority and preserve his premiership.

WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get going, but when the going gets too easy, there’s nowhere to go, except the bunk or the pub.

Watford midfielder Al Bangura has won his appeal to stay in the UK after being awarded a work permit at a hearing this afternoon.

Watford midfielder Al Bangura’s fight to stay in the United Kingdom will be resolved early next week after a work permit hearing was scheduled.

IN the first three months of this year I was a patient at the Bons Secours hospital in Cork.

British Home Secretary John Reid has put on hold the planned deportation from the North of an African mother and baby daughter, it was announced today.

I WISH to comment on the presentation of the article by Jimmy Woulfe, headlined ‘City centre scores €5m in rugby spending spree’ (Irish Examiner, January 22).