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BREAKTHROUGH talks between the Government and union leaders last night saw hopes of averting a wave of major strike action across schools and hospitals rise significantly.
THE Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is investigating 19 allegations made against foster carers in Dublin North West and North Central, including some of a sexual nature.
ANGLO Irish Bank has initiated legal action against controversial former chairman Sean FitzPatrick over unrecovered loans amounting to about €70 million.
SERIOUS street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in Athens yesterday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.
AN AFTERSHOCK measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile yesterday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president.
PAT GILROY has called on the GAA to end decades of "hypocrisy" and either tackle under-the-counter payments to managers or legitimise the practice under the association's own laws.
THE regulatory framework for Irish-based financial services firms is to be completely overhauled in the coming months, with the current "one size fits all" model being replaced with a "more rigorous" case by case approach.
RUBY WALSH and Tony Martin joined forces to land a double with Psycho and Tijuana Dancer at Clonmel yesterday.
Donal Lenihan
ON THE day the greatest Irish player of the professional era wins his 100th cap in front of an adoring home audience, it is a pleasure to recognise the remarkable achievements of the man who pipped the Irish captain to the post in becoming this countries first rugby centurion in Twickenham two weeks ago.
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