MORNING BULLETIN: Harris seeks one-month reprieve to save maternity hospital; AIB fined €2.2m for money laundering failures
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Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse. The board of the National Maternity Hospital is due to meet this evening, amid the ongoing controversy about the facility's future.
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has been accused of massively overstating the amounts saved by the State in anti-fraud measures.
: Volunteers who have helped revitalise parts of Cork’s inner city with vibrant street art and guerrilla gardening have appealed for help tracing vandals who have defaced some of their projects.
Japan's disaster reconstruction minister has resigned after saying "it was good" that the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit a northern region instead of areas closer to Tokyo.
United Airlines is investigating after reports a giant rabbit died on one of its transatlantic flights.
: AIB has been fined €2.275m for antimoney laundering and terrorist financing compliance failures by the Central Bank after admitting six breaches of the Criminal Justice Act.
: Rassie Erasmus admitted yesterday the most disappointing aspect of Munster’s defeat to Saracens in last week’s European Champions Cup semi-final was being unable to reward the near 50,000 members of the Red Army thronging the Aviva Stadium for their fantastic support.
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: With Ireland amid an overweight crisis, two people tell Arlene Harris about their individual weight loss journeys.
: Kitty Green’s childhood obsession with the killing of JonBenét Ramsey led her to make a film involving people from the city where it happened.
: The third film in the main Star Wars trilogy will arrive in cinemas on May 24 2019, Disney has announced as it revealed a raft of release dates.
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