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Ellis
must repay money he owes or resign post
JOHN ELLIS’S fate hinges on a last ditch
bid to frame a package to pay farmers he has owed money to for over a
decade.
Zero profile politician
introduced to nation
Once, the future of the Haughey government
hung on the bottom line in John Ellis’s personal bank balance. Political
Correspondent Katie Hannon profiles the deputy from Leitrim
Re-listing
of Stanlow may help farmers
FARMER creditors of Stanlow Trading, owned
by Fianna Fáil TD John Ellis, may seek to have the company re-instated
onto the Companies Register as part of their bid to obtain £300,000 owed
to them.
Asylum-seekers
to get full board and pocket money instead of cash
ASYLUM SEEKERS will get benefit in kind instead
of cash payments under a new scheme while a large number of the 8,500
living in Dublin will be moved to other centres around the country.
Smoking ban on sports
events in pipeline
SMOKING will be banned in all places frequented
by young people and at major sporting fixtures, if the recommendations
of a Dáil committee being published today are adopted.
Drug dealers aided
and abetted, claim gardaí
DRUG dealers were being aided and abetted
at one of the country’s best known nightclub’s, according to gardaí, a
court was told yesterday.
Ringleader of prison
riot gets 10 years’ jail
THE ringleader of the 1997 Mountjoy prison
riot, in which five prison officers were held captive, has been jailed
for 10 years.
Top model caught
on the hop in Dublin
TOP model Orla O’Rourke space hopped down
Henry Street in Dublin yesterday to put a new pair of tights to the test.
Minister launches
plan to tackle litter
LITTER pollution is a local problem which
can only be successfully tackled through cross community actions, Minister
of State at the Department of the Environment, Dan Wallace TD declared
yesterday.
AmEx raiders very
well informed
THE theft of £425,662 in cash and travellers
cheques from an American Express office in central Dublin could have been
carried out with inside information.
Refugee-run businesses
under attack, says anti-racism group
BUSINESSES run by refugees have been attacked
in Dublin, according to the National Federation of Campaigns Against Racism.
Asylum unit turns
away hundreds of refugees
SENIOR officials from four government departments
came together last night in a bid to resolve the staffing and accommodation
problems that resulted in hundreds of refugees being turned away from
the Asylum Seekers unit in Mount Street, Dublin yesterday.
Quads do their party
piece as they celebrate birthday
THEY’RE a year old today - the Fay quads
from Glasnevin: Lisa, Amy, Michael and Brian.
Anti-dump groups
are refused cash for adviser
A LOCAL authority’s unique decision to finance
the appointment of an independent adviser for groups opposing them in
a battle against a superdump has been rejected.
Artists’ visions
of Israel go on display
PRESIDENT Mary McAleese last night opened
an art exhibition in Dublin Castle sponsored by the State of Israel and
the Jewish National Fund.
Cleaner air to benefit
city dwellers, says health expert
IRELAND’S improving air pollution record
should have knock on benefits for residents of large urban areas, according
to an American health expert.
Maritime plaza project
gets cash from millennium body
A VISIONARY plan to transform the Clyde Wharf
area of Waterford City into a maritime plaza yesterday received the endorsement
of the National Millennium Committee, which is to provide £850,000 towards
the project, expected to be completed by the summer.
Minister to meet
banks, millers on crisis in pig sector
AS pig farmers from the border counties began
a five day protest outside Agriculture House in Dublin yesterday over
the income crisis in their sector, minister Joe Walsh announced that he
is to meet with banks and the feed millers on the situation.
Golf
project slows to a snail’s pace
THE onward march in sensible slacks and odd
looking shoes of the ever expanding population of those with an inexplicable,
though deep held penchant for hitting small balls with long handled shillelaghs,
has been slowed to a snail’s pace.
Protesters urged
to leave sheep at home
FARMERS who will stage a protest in Dublin
today over a price slump were urged by an animal welfare group last night
to leave their sheep at home.
Army to aid files
probe
BRITISH Army investigators have been drafted
to help RUC detectives trace the source of secret military documents seized
from Loyalist dissidents.
Mandelson in a spin
over alleged leak of plan for decommissioning
NORTHERN Ireland Secretary, Peter Mandelson
was under fire last night as talks on the peace process entered another
crucial phase.
Two accused of murders
in North bar
A COURT heard in chilling detail yesterday
about a loyalist gun attack on a bar in Poyntzpass in which lifelong friends
Philip Allen and Damien Trainor were shot dead.
Co-operative
approach the way forward
A UNIQUE seminar held in Jury’s Hotel, Cork,
last Friday saw the inshore commercial fishing and sea angling sectors
come together for the first time to discuss and debate issues of mutual
concern.
Claims that Corporation
house empty for 14 years
THERE were angry exchanges at last night’s
meeting of Cork City Council amid claims by members that a tradesman had
taken 14 weeks to paint a Corporation house and that another house had
remained boarded up for 14 years.
No power cuts this
winter: O’Rourke
PUBLIC Enterprise Minister Mary O’Rourke
promised yesterday there would be no power cuts this winter.
Seized cocaine being
shipped through Ireland
OVER £5 million worth of cocaine seized by
gardaí in the last eight weeks was being shipped through Ireland for drug
dealers in Britain and the Continent.
Backing for fish
conservation plan urged
EUROPE’S fishing nations have been urged
to row in behind an Irish initiative in enforcing new fish conservation
regulations.
Dairying reforms
must retain Irish ethos
THE Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association
has urged the dairy industry to be cautious about copying other countries
that have reformed their milk processing structure into a few major plants.
DPP file after alleged
Aer Lingus attack
A FILE is being prepared by gardaí for the
DPP after a passenger on board an Aer Lingus flight bound for New York
allegedly attacked a duty manager minutes before take off at Shannon Airport.
Councils should pay
residents near landfill sites
PEOPLE living near dumps should be paid because
of the nuisance and inconvenience caused to them, it was urged yesterday.
Landowners get representation
in ESB legal action
FORTY THREE landowners were yesterday given
permission by the High Court to appear as a Notice Party in legal proceedings
which the ESB is bringing against Cork County Council.
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