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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.
ANGLO Irish Bank has initiated legal action against controversial former chairman Sean FitzPatrick over unrecovered loans amounting to about €70 million.
SHARON COLLINS's conviction for conspiracy to murder her wealthy partner and his two sons by hiring an online hitman should be overturned, a court heard yesterday.
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.
POLITICIANS are geared to think only as far as the next election. They go into liquidation if they lose their seat.
Alan Good
Brian O'Driscoll will this weekend become the latest player to join rugby's most exclusive club when he leads Ireland out against Wales this Saturday, winning his 100th cap for his country.
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