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On Thursday, as the Dáil prepared to be dismissed for the holidays, The Irish Examiner (Jul 19) reported that national debt had risen under this government.

Lucinda Creighton may face the end of her Ministerial career this evening with a vote on the abortion legislation.

It now looks increasingly likely that the European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton will be the only TD to revolt on abortion legislation tonight.

The final Dáil vote on the abortion legislation will now take place at midnight.

The committee stage of the abortion legislation will continue today, with the contentious suicide clause to be discussed.

A senior Fine Gael Minister has said TDs voting against the new abortion legislation from a pro-life perspective are making a mistake and will be proven wrong.

Four Fine Gael TD's will be thrown out of the party this evening when they defy orders to back abortion laws in the first Dáil vote.

Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton has said that a change to the abortion laws clarifying the term limit for a termination in suicide cases is a necessary minimum.

Another Fine Gael TD has confirmed he will not support the new abortion legislation.

The Dáil is to hold an extra sitting next Monday to discuss the abortion legislation before a first vote on Tuesday.

A Mass-going North Cork TD has been given assurances by Church leaders that he will not be excommunicated for supporting the abortion legislation.

The Government's abortion legislation will take a first step towards becoming law when it is introduced in the Dáil today.

About 10 Fine Gael TDs and Senators will vote against the new abortion legislation, a member of the party has claimed.

It is as if the cabinet lobbed the abortion issue into the committee and ran for cover as havoc ensued, writes Michael Clifford.

DEVIOUS women and manipulative psychiatrists were recurring themes at the Oireachtas Health Committee hearings yesterday.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has taken a swipe at TDs who he said have holiday homes in Spain and France but are opposing property tax here.

Fine Gael TD Peter Matthews estimates there is up to €30bn in losses still lurking in the balance sheets of the Irish banks.

It looks as if AIB and Bank of Ireland will both be supervised directly from Frankfurt when the EU banking union comes into operation in Mar 2014, according to the Department of Finance’s Aidan Carrigan.

A Fine Gael TD is disagreeing with the Taoiseach and Finance Minister on the issue of bank pensions.

DO we really want a random collection of unqualified TDs investigating the most calamitous financial disaster in the history of the State?

Residents of a major apartment complex in south Dublin will be forced to leave their homes for up to three months after the building was found to be a fire hazard and in breach of safety regulations.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today that the lack of service for customers of Ulster Bank is unacceptable.

Ulster Bank has been ordered to compensate any customers affected by its IT systems crash — which could last into the second half of this month.

Ireland will pay the full price for the mistakes made in its name, the Taoiseach has told US businessmen.

Maverick Fine Gael TD Peter Matthews is likely to escape disciplinary action despite helping plunge his party into ridicule.

The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has attacked one of his Fine Gael colleagues for proposing solutions to Ireland's banking problems, which he said were "deranged and crazy".

DCU’s Brian Gregan put the finishing touch to a spectacular season when he set a new personal best of 45.96 seconds in the final of the men’s 400m at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China.

WAKEY, wakey. The alarm clock is set early this morning for our new cabinet.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).

AIB’s shareholders offered the new executive chairman a pretty warm welcome yesterday as he officiated at the distressed bank’s egm to sanction the sale of its 22% stake in M&T, which was approved.

THE second NAMA business plan explodes many myths expounded when it was originally advocated.

AFTER the glitter of the European indoor championships, the spotlight swings to Sligo Racecourse this weekend where teak-tough Clareman Seamus Power bids to reclaim the national inter-clubs cross-country title.

Thousands of budding athletes are to descend on Dublin’s Phoenix Park today for the annual 10-mile race.

Kilkenny woman Joanne Cuddihy looks set to double up with both the 200 metres and 400 metres titles at the Woodies DIY National Track and Field Championships this weekend.

A former senior executive with Anglian Water has taken over as the North’s new energy regulator, it was confirmed today.

VINNY MULVEY (Raheny Shamrock) made the 100-metre trip from his apartment to claim the National inter-club cross-country championship title in spectacular fashion at Santry Demesne on Saturday from young Mark Christie (Mullingar Harriers) and his flatmate, Killian Lonergan.

SERGIY LEBID stole the show with a devastating last lap surge to claim his fifth successive title - and his sixth in all - at the SPAR European cross-country championships in Tilburg, overcoming the challenge of Spain’s Alberto Garcia, the European 5,000m champion who only returned from a two-year ban for a positive drugs test last March.

MARK CHRISTIE, one of the country’s most exciting athletes, is all set to bring down the curtain on his junior career with a stylish performance at the European Cross-country Championships in Heringsdorf, Germany, on Sunday.

A total prize fund of €8,000 will be on offer at the 25th annual Rockford Rooftile Four-Mile Road Race in Tinryland village, Carlow tomorrow at 2pm.