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Top Stories: Dec 26 2009 A British-based student is at the centre of a major terror investigation on both sides of the Atlantic after a failed attempt to blow up a US airliner. As police searched a sought-afte... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:19:21 -0500It is understood the Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Initial tests are said to have shown that he is suffering with a malignant tumour. The severity of his il... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:12:11 -0500Police in the North are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man. His body was found at a quarry on Deerfin Road in Ballymena in Co. Antrim just after midday today. The PSNI has launched an invest... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:12:11 -0500Dec 26 2009 The UK is facing further cold, wintry weather as it moves towards New Year's Eve and a cold start to 2010, forecasters said. The forecast follows a spell of snow, sleet and ice which h... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:57:03 -0500Dec 26 2009 Buddhist monks chanted on white-sand beaches in Thailand and thousands prayed at mosques in Indonesia to mark the fifth anniversary of the Asian tsunami that left 230,000 people dead. ... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:57:03 -0500Some stores in Belfast say takings for Boxing Day sales are up by almost a third, compared to last year. Many had already launched sales online or shortly before Christmas, but it is thought they coul... BBC Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:39:28 -0500A spokesman for the Galway Diocese has said that Bishop Martin Drennan will not be resigning. Fr Sean McHugh said Bishop Drennan felt he had done nothing wrong, and that his situation was different t... RTE News Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:39:08 -0500Dec 26 2009 The mother of a man who vanished from a Swiss ski resort said the family was living "a nightmare". Myles Robinson was last seen in the early hours of Tuesday as he walked a family frie... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:35:15 -0500Dec 26 2009 Thousands have braved sub zero temperatures to support Boxing Day hunts, as campaigners called for a vote to scrap the Hunting Act. As hunts met around the country, Environment Secreta... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:35:14 -0500Dec 26 2009 Police searching for a teenage boy who went missing on Christmas Eve have found a body in a river near where he was last seen. Jordan Trowsdale, 13, of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshir... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:35:13 -0500A woman was airlifted to hospital today after her car plunged off cliffs at a well-known beauty spot.It is believed the woman in her 50s is in a stable condition after the incident at Howth summit, no... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:28:12 -0500Dec 26 2009 A local councillor who calls the numbers at charity bingo sessions has stopped saying "two fat ladies 88" and "legs 11" because council officials fear players might take offence and sue... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:08:13 -0500Rape Crisis Support Services are urging women to stay safe this Christmas. The National rape helpline received more than 2,500 calls over the festive season last year - that is a 20% increase on 2008.... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:01:32 -0500Dec 26 2009 The search for a 23-year-old British man who went missing from a Swiss ski resort has continued, with police scouring the hotel where he and his family were staying. Myles Robinson has... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:41:57 -0500Dec 26 2009 Buddhist monks chanted on white-sand beaches in Thailand and thousands prayed at mosques in Indonesia to mark the fifth anniversary of the Asian tsunami that left 230,000 people dead. ... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:41:56 -0500There is some disruption and delays to some bus services today to and from Kerry, Cork, and Limerick due to bad road conditions and road closures. As per normal Christmas arrangements, there are a lim... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:35:32 -0500The British government was accused by the Opposition Conservative Party today of wrongly diverting millions of pounds from the UK National Health Service to pay for the healthcare of pensioners in Ire... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:35:31 -0500Two more Irish bishops have said they will offer their resignations to the Pope, bringing the total number of church leaders to quit after a damning report into child sex abuse by priests to four.Bish... Timmins Daily Press Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:10:51 -0500The Government has been accused by the Tories of wrongly diverting millions of pounds from the National Health Service to pay for the healthcare of pensioners in Ireland. Under reciprocal arrangemen... Ananova Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:55:49 -0500A post mortem will be carried out today on human remains found in a shallow grave in Co Wicklow.The body - discovered on Christmas Eve - is thought to be that of Stephen O'Meara, missing since the sum... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:16:06 -0500IT'S one of the most popular festive traditions -- and even the freezing conditions failed to deter thousands of people around the country from diving in for a Christmas Day swim yesterday. As our pi... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:01:57 -0500THE FIRST bargain hunters braved the cold to camp out in front of department stores early yesterday morning in advance of the opening of the winter sales today. Top of the queue outside Arnotts in... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:01:56 -0500AREAS of the country woke up to a white Christmas yesterday as sub-zero temperatures covered whole regions in a picture-postcard blanket of snow and ice. Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:01:54 -0500The 9-year-old boy at the centre of an international custody battle has arrived back in the United States after being reunited in Brazil with his American father at the end of a five-year dispute that... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:01:53 -0500An estimated 75,000 tonnes of packaging will be generated over the Christmas season. We will get through 20 million wine bottles, 13 million bottles of beer, 35 million cans of soft drinks and manage ... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:56:59 -0500Investigations are continuing today into what fire fighters say is one of the biggest fires in Longford in years. A major blaze ripped through St Mel's Cathedral in the early hours of Christmas mornin... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:56:59 -0500Drivers are again being warned of treacherous conditions on the roads today. Among the areas worst hit by icy conditions are Listowel in Co Kerry, Kilkenny and Arklow and Aughrim in Co Wicklow. The AA... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:56:58 -0500It has been a record-breaking year for illegal cigarette seizures - the largest coming at the end October when Customs officials recovered 120 million cigarettes in Greenore Port in Co Louth.Authoriti... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:56:58 -0500Two Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland resigned on Christmas Day in the wake of a damning investigation into decades of church cover-up of child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese. Dublin bishops Eamonn W... The News Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:15:56 -0500Garda technical experts were to carry out an examination in Co Wickow today of the scene where a body was found in a shallow grave yesterday. The body has not yet been identified and a post mortem ex... RTE News Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:33:50 -0500Irish Independent that the therapy, aided by counselling had helped her clean up her act."Oh God, when I was jailed I was probably at the lowest point in my life. "I was on everything," said Joan."I d... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:37 -0500A HISTORIC cathedral burned to the ground on Christmas morning -- just hours after a bishop talked about an arson attack on a convent in 1642.St Mel's Cathedral in Longford and its contents -- includi... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:36 -0500Oliver Moyles believes enough can never be done to save lives and, in any event, it is too late for his beautiful daughter, Kate.The 24-year-old medical secretary had just dropped her then five-year-o... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:35 -0500THE heartbroken mother of the man found in a shallow grave on Christmas Eve said she walked just yards from where her son's body was found during previous searches for him.Father-of-three Stephen O'Me... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:32 -0500THE number of people killed on the country's roads is now at its lowest level since records began 50 years ago.With just six days left in 2009, so far 239 people have lost their lives in road crashes.... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:31 -0500FAKE goods have been flooding the country over the last two years, while revenue swoops on counterfeit items have reached record levels.And officials are now worried about the safety implications of a... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:29 -0500Irish Independent , Irish Prison Service Director General Brian Purcell also revealed overcrowding was making it more difficult to tackle the issue -- both in terms of detecting drugs and providing tr... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:28 -0500SHOPPERS and businesses will be using more plastic and less paper money quite soon under a new Government plan to reduce the amount of hard cash in circulation.A task force will be set up in the new y... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:27 -0500ORGANISERS of the Christmas Day dinner for the homeless and needy say they are seeing more new faces at the annual event as the full impact of the recession is felt. Yesterday was the 85th year of the... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:23 -0500EMBATTLED Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan was last night on the brink of standing down after the resignation of two more prelates named in the Murphy report. Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:23 -0500Joan Brosnan Walsh 's reaction to her debilitating illness was inspiring, the congregation at the popular actor's funeral heard yesterday. Mrs Brosnan Walsh, who was in her 60s, quit the role that mad... Independent.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:53:20 -0500Dec 26 2009 The Government's national consultation on Britishness has been criticised by the Tories as a "colossal waste of money" as they claimed it had been widely snubbed. The Conservative Part... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:36:05 -0500Dec 26 2009 An al Qaida-linked suspect who allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic plane is studying at a UK university, it has been reported. The Nigerian is accused of trying to detonate a po... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:36:04 -0500Dec 26 2009 Have-a-go passengers who tackled a man trying to blow up a plane may have saved hundreds of lives, US intelligence sources have said. A Nigerian who said he was acting on al Qaida's in... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:12:16 -0500Dec 26 2009 Putting VAT back up in January could stall a recovery from recession, an economic forecaster has warned. The end of the temporary cut - taking the tax from 15% to 17.5% - could knock a... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:54:44 -0500Dec 26 2009 Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will kick off a campaign to support the fox-hunting ban amid fears from supporters of the legislation that a Tory government would scrap it. In a sign... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:54:43 -0500Dec 26 2009 British aid agencies working in the wake of the Asian tsunami "left a legacy that is more than just bricks and mortar", according to a new report. But members of the Disasters Emergenc... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:54:41 -0500Dec 26 2009 A 13-year-old boy who risked his life to save a friend who fell through the ice on a lake was among 12 Scouts awarded for their bravery this year. Damian Coles, from Stevenage, in Hert... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:54:40 -0500Dec 25 2009 A passenger aboard a plane at the US Detroit Metropolitan Airport caused a commotion and some minor injuries by setting off firecrackers, officials said. The devices went off as Northw... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:28:58 -0500Dec 25 2009 Producers of Big Brother have defended themselves against accusations of trying to take advantage of wounded soldiers by asking them to take part in the show. Boxing Day's Daily Mail n... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:28:56 -0500Dec 25 2009 Eurotunnel has launched a strong defence of its actions during the problems in the Channel Tunnel last week, saying it had been unfairly criticised for how it reacted. In a bulletin to... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:49:59 -0500Dec 25 2009 Ali Bastian has been crowned the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Champion - beating this year's main competition winner, Chris Hollins, among others. The actress was knocked out in the... Loughborough Echo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:49:58 -0500 |
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