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Minister’s crime rise claim is nonsense

IN his response to the latest figures which show violent crime to be soaring, Justice Minister Michael McDowell has claimed the increase is in line with what might be expected given the large increase in the population over the last five years.

Minister’s smear tactics designed to take spotlight off coalition’s failures

Anti-garda rhetoric a hallmark of Sinn Féin

Minister ignoring Law Reform Commission

Harney was not the youngest senator

PD leader keeps moving the target

Conradh chief’s maths claim doesn’t add up

THE president of Conradh na Gaeilge, Daithí MacCárthaigh, asks “are we to expect Fine Gael to blame compulsion and call for maths to be made an optional extra for the exam in future in light of the disappointing results in the Leaving Cert?” (Irish Examiner Letters, August 18).

Sat, 02 Sep, 2006