Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login

NEWSDESK

PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Jan 16
16 Jan 2007 07:59:14 GMT
Source: Reuters
DUBLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy:

THE IRISH TIMES

-Sinn Fein's acceptance of policing and the rule of law in Northern Ireland, followed by concrete evidence on the ground that its position has changed, should be enough to satisfy the Democratic Union Party, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday in Saudi Arabia.

- Dublin's Clarence Hotel, owned by U2's Bono and the Edge, in partnership with property developer Paddy McKillen, is to be redeveloped at a cost of 150 million euros.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- Armed kidnappers took 1.24 million euros from a security van, unaware they had left a similar sum behind, after forcing security guards to hand over the cash to secure the release of a colleague's wife held hostage overnight.

- Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney won the 2006 TS Eliot Prize for poetry on Monday for his collection 'District and Circle', about a summer he spent traveling to work on the London Underground in the 1960s.

IRISH EXAMINER

- Junior Minister Tony Killeen has been forced to apologise to victims of a child rapist after admitting his office sent two letters seeking the early release of the convicted paedophile.

- Strong southwesterly winds blew a number of large pieces from the doomed trawler Honeydew II into the shore on Monday, as searchers continued tp look for the missing skipper and crew member.

Looking for more information from local sources? Reuters Business Briefing has five Irish sources including Irish Times. For details of the product please call your local help desk <PHONE/HELP>.


AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article       Send comments

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.
Reset map

•  Saudi Arabia profile
· View map

•  United Arab Emirates profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  Ninety Organizations Call on Congress to Save $1 Billion in Global AIDS Funding
WV - USA

•  From the Executive Director's Desk... In the Fight to end Malaria Broken Promises Create Suffering Children
CWS

•  New HIV and AIDS Resource Section Launched on ADRA Web Site
ADRA - International

•  Lords Set to Support Cluster Munitions Ban
Landmine Action - UK

•  Islamic Relief and WFP Sign Major Agreement for Cooperation
Islamic Relief - USA

MORE >>

Latest news

•  PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Jan 16

•  Rice, Saudi king discuss Iraq, Palestinian issue

•  REFILE-Rice likely to discuss Iran and Iraq with Saudis

•  Thais fume at Thaksin meetings in Singapore

•  Pakistan strikes militant camp in S. Waziristan

MORE >>

Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Tue Jan 16 07:59:35 2007