It was all happening this week, with editors having a choice of stories most days. On occasion, however, they did not consider them sufficiently dramatic and looked overseas for their lead. One overseas story, the collapse of a tour operator and low-cost airline, had direct repercussions here as many Irish people had booked holidays or flights with the XL Leisure group.

Twenty young Irish people saw their adventure holiday come to a dramatic and untimely end when the sail-training ship Asgard II sank off the French coast. Most, if not all, seemed to view their experience as an added adventure and were in very good spirits when they returned home.

We had another case of a misdiagnosis in an Irish hospital ending with the untimely death of a patient. That provided the headlines for a number of papers and generated much debate.

Twice during the week Dublin's criminals took the lives of other Dublin criminals. It was also reported that two men in their 30s may have died at the hands of a major drug dealer and that their bodies have yet to be found.

In other news we had Westport winning the national Tidy Towns competition, speculation that the end is nigh for the Progressive Democrats, more protests against the Shell gas terminal in northwest Mayo, and attempts to reach agreement on a national pay deal.

Package holidaymakers let down

It has been a disappointing week for some Irish people going on sun holidays, and a nervous one for others. On Monday a charter airline had to ground its fleet as a result of financial problems and we had a similar story on Friday, but this time the company involved was both a low-cost airline and a tour operator.

Futura Gael, the charter airline which carries most Irish package holidaymakers, last Monday suspended all flights due to cash flow problems. The airline is the Irish-based subsidiary of Spanish-headquartered Futura International Airways which had filed for administration. Irish tour operators immediately began making alternative arrangements for their clients and no one should have missed out on their holiday.

Monday's decision meant that at least 70 of Futura's 90 Irish-based staff were laid off on what the company hopes is a temporary basis. Futura continues to seek an investor to allow it to resume operations.

Aer Lingus established Futura in 1990 but sold 80% of its stake to the charter airline's management team in 2002. In October of last year it sold its remaining 20% stake to British private equity group Hutton Collins for €11.3m.

With the collapse, in the early hours of Friday, of the British travel group XL Leisure, up to 1,200 Irish holidaymakers are relying on the Commission for Aviation Regulation to charter aircraft to bring them home. A further 600 Northerners are in the same position, but relying on Britain's Civil Aviation Authority to arrange to fly them home.

A further 3,000 people in the Republic and an unknown number in the North, who were due to go on holiday with XL, will have to apply for refunds but that process will take some months. If they wish to book an alternative holiday in the meantime they will need to have access to additional funds.

The situation is more serious for those who booked flights with XL which also operated as a low-cost airline. There is no compensation scheme available to them, although their credit card company may have a policy of making refunds in such cases. It is not known how many Irish people fall into this category.

Ryanair issued a statement saying it had agreed to make a spare aircraft available for the next two weeks to bring home British and Irish holidaymakers who had booked package deals with XL, as their holidays come to an end. Michael Cawley, Ryanair's deputy CEO, added, "We strongly advise passengers to be more discerning when they book their holidays and look first at the financial position of the airline with which they book".

Both Futura and XL blamed the cost of fuel for their problems. A total of five Irish tour companies have collapsed this year and those close to the industry say that is not the end. British Airways CEO Willie Walsh believes that a further 30 airlines will go out of business this year; I believe he was referring to the global situation.

Asgard II sinks off the French coast

The State-owned sail training vessel Asgard II was abandoned about 20 miles off the French coast in the early hours of Thursday when its pumps could not cope with water coming into the bilges. The 25 people on board, five crew and 20 trainees, took to three life rafts and were picked up by the French sea rescue service. By the time the story was reported on RTÉ's Morning Ireland all were safe in a hotel on the island of Belle-Ile-en-Mer.

The bilge alarm sounded at 3:00am local time and when Captain Colm Newport realised he had a serious problem he gave the order to abandon ship. That took less than five minutes although Captain Newport and two crew members remained on board for a further 20 minutes to keep in touch with the rescue services. By then the deck was awash. At around 4:30am all 25 were transferred to two lifeboats operated by the French equivalent of the RNLI, the SNSM, and taken about 12 miles to Belle-Ile-en-Mer, off the south coasty of Brittany.

As soon as they learned of the incident Irish Ambassador to France Anne Anderson and Consul Andrew Noonan headed straight from Paris to Belle-Ile. They provided temporary travel documents while the local authority had provided shoes and clothes; some of the crew had arrived on the island in their night attire and none had time to collect any personal belongings. On Friday the crew left Belle-Ile to travel to Paris and arrived back in Dublin airport later in the day.

It is not known what caused the leak on the ship and according to the Department of Defence it is too early to say if there is any possibility that it can be salvaged. It's lying in 90 metres of water. Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea said that if it is not economically viable to salvage and repair the Asgard then he will look at the possibility of building a replacement vessel. The insurance, he said, will cover the cost; the problem will be finding the necessary skills.

Woman dies after misdiagnosis

News of yet another case in which a woman's breast cancer was misdiagnosed made headlines on more than one day. The case was brought to the media's attention by Karl Henry, whose wife Ann Moriarty (53) died of breast cancer in April of this year. She had twice been given the all-clear at Ennis General Hospital but days later, when she attended the Galway Clinic on the advice of her GP, she was told that she had terminal cancer.

In 2005 Ms Moriarty, the mother of a 13-year-old son, had been treated for breast cancer at St James' Hospital. She was in remission when she returned for a check-up in April 2007 and was told that all was well. The mammogram taken at the time can, however, no longer be located.

In August of that year she was also given the all-clear at Ennis General Hospital after a locum consultant radiologist misread an X-ray. Two months later she was feeling unwell and returned to Ennis but was again told that she was "fine" and was treated for a stomach upset. Blood test results which should have set alarm bells ringing were ignored.

Mr Henry has been pressing the Health Service Executive for a full inquiry into the case but without success to date. An external consultant was asked to review the case and he concluded that, while mistakes were made, there was nothing to be gained by conducting a full-scale inquiry. Many apologies have now been made to the family, and Minister for Health Mary Harney will be meeting with Mr Henry.

Westport wins Tidy Town's competition

Westport is once again Ireland's Tidiest Town. It won the accolade for the third time when the results of the National Tidy Towns competition were announced in Dublin on Monday. The Co. Mayo town was also named the Tidiest Large Town.

Other category winners were Birdhill, Co. Tipperary (Tidiest Village), Kenmare, Co. Kerry (Tidiest Small Town) and Ennis, Co. Clare (Tidiest Large Urban Area).

This was the 50th year of the competition and to mark the occasion a special award was made to five-times winner and the first ever winner, Glenties in Co. Donegal.

Westport was awarded 303 points out of a possible 400. Others in the top ten were Birdhill (302); Kenmare, Co. Kerry and Tallanstown, Co. Louth (301); Ennis, Co. Clare, Emly, Co. Tipperary, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Killarney, Co. Kerry (300); Moynalty, Co. Meath; Letterkenny, Co. Donegal and Kilkenny (299).

"Tidy Towns Results Book 2008" is an 80-page book giving details of all the winners in the various categories as well of the performance of every town and village that entered. http://www.tidytowns.ie/u_documents/TT%20Results%20Book%202008.pdf

Gangland killers active again

In what is believed to be another gangland killing, Christopher McDonagh (27) was shot dead in the west Dublin suburb of Ronanstown, shortly before midnight on Tuesday. Two gunmen forced their way into a house on the Woodavons estate and went upstairs where they fired at the victim, who had tried to escape by jumping from a window on to a roof and down into the garden. The gunmen went downstairs and fired further shots at McDonagh, who was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Crime reporters came up with numerous reasons as to why criminals might have targeted McDonagh. He was well-known to gardaí and on one occasion had to pay €100k to the Criminal Assets Bureau. It was reported that he recently had a row with a gang leader and that a decision by gardaí in 2006, not to charge him in relation to a major drugs seizure, raised suspicions that he was an informer.

The next killing came at around 3:00pm on Saturday when a lone gunman, wearing a crash helmet, entered a bookmakers on Killester Avenue in north Dublin and singled out local man Christopher Barry (25), shooting him twice in the head and again in the chest as he lay on the ground. The assailant then walked out of the premises, mounted a motorcycle and drove off. The motorcycle was found burned out a short distance away. Later in the day gardaí arrested two men in the mid-20s in Tallaght and took possession of a van.

While Christy Barry was known to gardaí, the motive for his murder is unclear. Hi has not been connected with any of Dublin's feuding gangs.

It seems quite probable that there have been two more gangland killings this year than officially recorded. According to the Irish Times gardaí now believe that two missing Dubliners are dead. David Lyndsay (38) and Alan Napper (39), both from Baldoyle, disappeared five days after their friend Anthony Foster (34) was shot dead in a gangland killing in Coolock on July 18. One theory is that Mr Lyndsay was lured north of the border by a Dublin drug dealer and shot dead, with Mr Napper being killed because he was with him. On Tuesday gardaí searched the house of the suspected killer who has apparently fled to Spain, fearing that he is likely to be the next shooting victim.

Pay talks muddied by Aer Lingus

The employers body IBEC and the leaders of the trade union movement have spent the week in intensive talks in another last ditch effort to reach agreement on a new national wage deal. Taoiseach Brian Cowen said he is on hand to offer any assistance that may be required and I believe he did join the negotiators for a period over the weekend.

So far the exercise seems futile as by Sunday evening nothing appeared to have been achieved. Any time that a representative of either side spoke to the media it was to emphasise the gulf that still existed. It was also usual to throw in an issue which was described as a deal breaker.

At one stage the unions were insisting that their bottom line was for a flat rate increase for low-paid workers, while the employers said that such a demand in the current economic climate is madness. Later another union leader told RTÉ that there could be no agreement without a commitment from government to legislate for mandatory union recognition. A spokesman for the employers insisted that this was a step too far and warned that it would frighten off many multinationals who are excellent employers.

It continued in that vein and when the talks were extended into Sunday we were given the impression that no progress had been made and that the only encouraging sign was that they were still talking.

Away from the talks it was reported in at least one Sunday newspaper that Aer Lingus was planning to lay off its 1,300 ground staff in Ireland and outsource the work. Something similar was claimed for transatlantic cabin crew in an effort to reduce the huge costs being incurred through overnight stays.

This news prompted SIPTU president Jack O'Connor to warn that if there was any truth in the Aer Lingus story it would put an end to the current national pay talks.

The end of the road for the PDs?

On Monday there was renewed speculation that Noel Grealish TD was about to resign from the Progressive Democrats and join Fianna Fáil. The Galway West TD is one of just two PDs in the Dáil and his colleague Minister for Health Mary Harney is not expected to be a candidate in the next General Election.

Mr Grealish eventually issued a statement saying that the story was pure speculation and that he would not be commenting further. That failed to quell the speculation, and the death of a friend of Mr Grealish in Galway forced the postponement of a planned PD parliamentary party meeting at which all was expected to become clear. The parliamentary party consists of Mr Grealish, Ms Harney, Senator Fiona O'Malley and party leader Senator Ciarán Cannon.

The issue became a major story again on Friday as Mr Grealish had yet to properly quell the rumours, if that is what they were. Senator Cannon spoke on radio in the morning to say that Mr Grealish assured him that he remains an active member of the party. That apparently was said during a post-midnight phone conversation between the two men. Mr Cannon did express concern that his colleague had failed to say what his future intentions were.

In Friday's Irish Independent Sam Smyth insisted that Mr Grealish will indeed be rejoining Fianna Fáil. He claimed that the TD has already informed Senator Cannon and Mary Harney that he plans to leave the party on the basis that he believes it has no future. It's Mr Smyth's contention that the announcement is being delayed in deference to Ms Harney, who is a close friend of Mr Grealish, and that all will be made clear at a PD parliamentary party meeting this week.

At least one commentator has gone further to say that, with Mr Grealish's departure, the PDs will be formally disbanded and members encouraged to join Fianna Fáil. This, however, has been denied by Ciarán Cannon.

Shell protesters arrested

With the arrival off the north west Mayo coast on Tuesday of the pipe-laying ship Solitaire, three trawlers tried to impede the vessel and their skippers were arrested by gardaí. The three were taken to Belmullet garda station and a crowd of about 50 staged a protest outside. The men were released without charge around midnight.

On Wednesday morning, in a repeat of Tuesday's behaviour, two of the three were re-arrested. Elsewhere in the area five protesters chained their arms together through concrete filled pipes and lay down on the road. Meanwhile long-time protester Maura Harrington was sitting in her car outside the site of the gas terminal claiming that she is on hunger strike.

By lunchtime it was reported that work on laying the pipe had been suspended as crucial equipment on the vessel has been damaged, possibly as a result of severe weather. The Solitaire has now left the area and is not expected to return until the spring.

While a handful of protesters continue to necessitate the continued presence of dozens of garda officers and receive extensive media coverage, some 800 people are happy to be employed by Shell and its subcontractors. A spokesman for Pro Gas Mayo claimed, "The protesters do not represent the vast majority of the people of Erris, Mayo or Ireland".

Priests under pressure

The shortage of priests is beginning to create a variety of problems, as two unconnected stories from Co. Donegal demonstrated during the week.

The lack of manpower has prompted the parish priest in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, to end the tradition of holding "Station Masses" in private homes in March and October. Fr John Walsh told his parishioners that there would be no Station Masses this October as he had lost one priest, another was on sick leave and holiday cover had to provided for a neighbouring parish. The tradition, going back to Penal times, is that during each March and October Mass is celebrated in one house in each townland in the parish with the neighbours in attendance.

At the same time not all is well in the parish of Ballintra in southwest Donegal where the local parish priest, Fr Séamus Dagens, has indicated that he plans to resign. He looks after the parish on his own and thought he had the approval of his parishioners when he decided to sell the unused chapel of ease at Laghey Barr. The small chapel has not been used for Sunday Mass since the Franciscans, at nearby Rossnowlagh, announced five years ago that they no longer had sufficient priests to celebrate Mass in St Colmcille's each Sunday.

Fr Dagens (55) had asked those opposed to the sale to write "No" on their weekly collection envelope and when few did he started the process. The proceeds were to be used to provide an extension to Laghey National School. Opposition in the shape of the Laghey Barr Association, a community group, quickly emerged and the sale was put on hold. The matter is now with Bishop of Raphoe, Dr Philip Boyce, who has wisely refused to comment.

Bits and Pieces

Grain growers in trouble

The seemingly incessant rain is creating problems for grain growers who are having difficulty in harvesting their crops. Their difficulties, however, are not receiving the publicity that they would once have been accorded. The Irish Times quoted a Teagasc spokesman who estimated that between 30% and 40% of this year's crop is still in the fields.

One farmer interviewed on RTÉ radio said that he has combines ready to go into his fields whenever conditions allow, whether that is day or night. He also said that he had dryers working round the clock on the grain harvested to date.

Among the fields still to be harvested as of Tuesday were those on the 600-acre site at Cuffesgrange in Co. Kilkenny, where the National Ploughing Championships are due to start on September 23. The forecasters are predicting a dry settled spell starting mid-week and suggest it may continue into the following week.

Gods more than heroes to the people of Kilkenny

It was estimated that up to 25,000 ecstatic fans lined the streets of Kilkenny on Monday evening when the All-Ireland hurling champions toured the city in an open-top bus, with the Liam McCarthy trophy on display. Fans and pundits alike searched for superlatives to describe the 2008 Kilkenny hurlers. There appeared to be a unanimous view that this was the greatest hurling team ever, turning on the greatest performance ever; even the legendary Eddie Keher held that view.

Estimates of the number of people welcoming the unfortunate Waterford side home at the same time varied from 10,000 to 13,000. The fans were in good form, recognising that their favourites had brought the county to an All-Ireland final for the first time in 45 years only to be confronted by giants. While the fans were able to smile, the players looked very glum indeed.

Garda success against subversives

Gardaí investigating subversive activities appear to have had some success in the early hours of Tuesday during the planned search of an apartment at Park West in Dublin 10. Five men in their 20s were arrested and a quantity of equipment which could be used in the manufacture of pipe bombs was recovered.

It was reported that those arrested were members of the INLA and that some were being trained in how to assemble pipe bombs when gardaí arrived. According to media reports the gang, headed by a man who was arrested and remanded in custody some weeks ago, has been using the pipe bombs to extort money from a Dublin drug gang and had been selling the weapons to rival gangs.

On Thursday five men appeared in the Special Criminal Court on charges relating to the possession of explosives. Three were also charged with membership of the INLA. Three of the accused had Dublin addresses, one is from Monaghan and the other from Belfast. All were remanded in custody.

Teenage girl shot in Waterford feud

The ongoing Travellers feud in Waterford sank to a new low late on Monday when a man with a shotgun arrived at the Bilberry halting site in the city and ordered a 16-year-old girl to "stand still". He then pulled the trigger and the girl suffered extensive pellet wounds in the stomach area. Her injuries are not, however, life-threatening.

Gardaí arrested a suspect during the week and on Friday Patrick Stokes (27), of Ballybeg in Waterford, appeared before Waterford District Court on a charge of assault causing harm and on firearms offences. He was remanded in custody.

Also on Monday, as a result of the same dispute, three cars were rammed on the Cork road. Gardaí subsequently arrested three men.

Majority want restricted immigration in current climate

An opinion poll carried out by Amárach Research indicated that, in the current economic climate, 66% of Irish people would like to see tighter immigration controls introduced. Leaving things as they are was the preference of 27% and the remainder had no opinion. When asked if immigration had been good for Ireland 54% agreed, 33% felt that it had had an adverse effect on the country and 13% believed it had made little difference.

Another laptop stolen

A laptop stolen from the house of a Health Service Executive staff member on September 3 contained details of a survey carried out on 1,150 HSE employees in relation to the influenza vaccine. The information is, however, not thought to be patient/client specific and, according to Owen O'Connor of the Information Systems Security Association, most thieves reformat the laptops before selling them on, rather than using the information for blackmail.

10,000 infants to be included in survey

An ongoing survey being carried out by researchers from the ESRI and Trinity College Dublin will monitor the progress of 10,000 nine-month old babies, their parents and carers. Topics to be addressed include health, development, family life, parental lifestyles and daily routine. "Growing up in Ireland" has already interviewed 8,500 nine-year-olds, who will be revisited when they reach the age of 13; researchers will follow up on the second group when the infants reach three years of age.

Two arrested after shots fired at halting site

A 35-year-old man and a 15-year-old youth were arrested at around 5:30pm on Thursday after shots were fired St Mochta's halting site on Porterstown Road in west Dublin. A sawn-off shotgun was also recovered. An off-duty garda officer, who witnessed the incident, took details of the car from which the shots were fired, contacted gardaí in Blanchardstown, and followed the vehicle for some distance. The car was later spotted by a garda patrol car in Damastown in north Co. Dublin where the two occupants abandoned it and tried to run away. They were pursued by unarmed officers and arrested.

Nigerian priest imprisoned on arrival

Fr John Achebe (33), who arrived at Dublin Airport on Tuesday with the intention of visiting his cousin, a psychiatrist in Limerick, was arrested by the Garda National Immigration Bureau and detained in prison overnight. Fr Achebe, who was wearing his clerical dress at the time, was released after the Nigerian Ambassador, Mandu Ekong-Omaghomi, confirmed that he was indeed a priest. The GNIB defended their actions on the grounds that Fr Achebe gave a false reason for visiting the country; the confusion arose due to the difference in Nigerian and Irish cultures of the interpretation of 'brother' and 'cousin'.

Mobile signals to be blocked in jails

Following revelations that prisoners are using mobile phones to conduct criminal activities on the outside, Director General of the Irish Prison Service Brian Purcell has reported that, from October, technology to block signals is to be installed in prisons. Also from next month, those visiting prisons will be subject to airport-style screening, and those arriving with walking aids will be required to use prison issue equipment. This latter ruling follows the discovery of drugs inside a Zimmer frame being used by an elderly female visitor.

Snippets:

It took fire fighters almost two hours to bring a fire under control at Pearse College in the Crumlin area of Dublin on Monday night. Five prefabricated buildings were destroyed in the blaze.
Gardaí are treating as suspicious a fire which totally gutted the parochial house in Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Canon James Ambrose was not in the house at the time as he has not spent a night there since being assaulted during a burglary some time ago.
Gardaí in Co. Cork arrested a man in his 20s and seized 25kg of cannabis worth €250k, when they raided a house in the Charlestown area at around 8:00pm on Thursday.

National Lottery Winning Numbers:

Wed: 2, 12, 24, 38, 39, 45 (5) - the jackpot of €3.47m was not won
Sat: 7, 8, 9, 18, 21, 27 (19) - the jackpot of €4.28m was not won

Northern News

McIlveen murder trial opens

The trial opened on Monday at Coleraine Crown Court of six young men, aged from 17 to 22, who are accused of murdering Michael "Mickey-Bo" McIlveen (15) in Ballymena, Co. Antrim in May 2006. The teenager, who was targeted because he was a Catholic, was beaten so badly that he subsequently died from head injuries. A seventh defendant is charged with affray and criminal damage. All the accused are from the Ballymena area.

After three days it was decided that the Coleraine courtroom was too small to accommodate all the accused and their separate legal teams so the hearing moved to Antrim Court.

No (Southern) Irish need apply

Minister for the Environment Sammy Wilson is refusing to accept anyone from the Republic on any of the three boards which advise him. On the Council for Nature Conservancy and the Countryside he inherited Patrick Warner, a staff member from the Department of the Environment in Dublin. Mr Warner has already been told that he will not be reappointed when his term ends in February.

It has become the tradition for such advisory bodies at Stormont and Dublin to include a cross-border representative and this was thought to be particularly important on environmental issues, where the border doesn't exist.

A spokeswoman for Mr Wilson's department said, "We now have a new regime. We have devolution. The Minister feels people from Northern Ireland should be serving on boards relating to Northern Ireland". Anyone who has followed Mr Wilson's career over the years will not be surprised at the change of policy.

Woman has lucky escape as dissidents try to kill PSNI officer

A 50-year-old woman had a lucky escape on Tuesday when dissident republicans mistook her car for that of a PSNI officer. The woman was reversing away from her home in Lisburn when she heard a noise and noticed something lying on the ground where her car had been parked. The cylindrical object, with switches and wires, turned out to be what the police later described as a "viable pipe bomb device". The police were unable to say why the device failed to explode but suggested that had it done so the woman would almost certainly have been killed.

North faces huge jump in gas and electricity prices

Gas and electricity prices in the North will increase dramatically at the beginning of October. Despite a 14% price increase in July, consumers will face a further jump of 30% in their electricity bills. At the same time gas prices will rise by 19.2% although the price went up by 28% just four months ago.

These increases prompted First Minister Peter Robinson to announce the postponement for another year of the introduction of domestic water charges. It had been planned to bring in water charges from next spring. Mr Robinson also made it clear that water charges were inevitable and could not be delayed indefinitely.

Murdered journalist - five arrested in North

PSNI officers investigating the 2001 murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan on Tuesday arrested four men and a woman in Lurgan and Banbridge. Mr O'Hagan (51) was shot dead in September 2001 as he walked home from a pub in Lurgan with his wife. This week's arrests have come about as a result of a review of the case by detectives from the PSNI's retrospective murder review unit.

A man is also being questioned about the murder of Patrick Devine (51) in his remote farmhouse in the Sperrin Mountains near Claudy, in September 2004. Mr Devine, a psychiatric nurse and large-scale sheep farmer, was shot dead as he sat at his table eating a meal.

Arrests follow latest "tiger kidnapping"

The latest "tiger kidnapping" attempt in the North ended with the arrest of three men and the recovery of some £200k, in sterling, euro and dollar notes. On Thursday morning members of a gang kidnapped a man in Belfast and ordered his sister to go to the bank where she worked and collect a large amount of cash. This she did but during a subsequent police raid on a house in Alliance Avenue the cash was recovered and the arrests made.

It is speculated that the woman was tailed by PSNI officers as she brought the money to a city centre rendezvous or that the bag containing the money may have contained a tracking device. One of those arrested is reported to be a former IRA prisoner. Neither the kidnapped man nor his sister suffered any physical injury during the incident.

On Saturday Matthew Johnston (27), Brendan Conway (34) and Éamonn Hutchinson (27) appeared at a special court sitting where they were charged with kidnapping and robbery.

PSNI get their men

More than a week ago the PSNI released the photographs of eight wanted men, seven of whom were suspected of burglary and one who had failed to return to prison after temporary release. During the past week five of the eight were arrested. The PSNI say that with the quiet marching season more resources have been available to fight serious crime during the summer and more than 100 arrests had already been made.

Legal challenge to the use of Taser guns

Lawyers acting on behalf of an unnamed child have successfully applied to the High court for leave to seek a judicial review of the PSNI decision to use Taser stun guns. It is expected that an application will now be made to the courts to have the weapons banned pending the outcome of the judicial review.

The PSNI took delivery of 12 Tasers earlier this year as an alternative weapon to live ammunition and plastic bullets. Since their introduction a Taser has been used on one just one occasion, to subdue a man in Derry in a domestic situation when two children were thought to be at risk.

Murder investigation in Dungannon

Éamonn Hughes, who was in his 50s, died from stab wounds when he was attacked in the Lisnahull estate in Dungannon early on Saturday. The father-of-three was walking home after attending his daughter's 18th birthday party.

Two women who tried to help him were hit by a stolen taxi. A short time later Mr Hughes' son was injured in the arm when he was hit by a bolt from a crossbow. Several people were arrested and late on Sunday it was reported that three had been released on bail and five were still being questioned.

It was widely reported that Mr Hughes was highly respected in the Co. Tyrone town and was involved in a number of community activities. His taxi driver father, Frank, was murdered by loyalists 18 years ago.

Morrison given no reason for acquittal

Former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison was in court on Friday to hear formally that his 1991 conviction, for aiding and abetting in the kidnapping of a police informer, had been quashed. The decision to overturn the original verdict, for which Mr Morrison was jailed for eight years, was taken by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The CCRC is unwilling to give its reasons for the decision and was criticised for this stance by Mr Morrison's legal team.

Tyrone GAA flag caused offence

A Northern civil servant has been ordered to remove a Tyrone GAA flag from her car when it is in the car park attached to the social security office in Strabane. Apparently a colleague complained about the flag and it was decided that it should be removed under legislation which requires employers to maintain a "neutral workplace".

The decision caused astonishment in GAA circles as they are quite convinced that the complainant wasn't a supporter of Kerry, Tyrone's opponents in next week's All Ireland Football final.

British recorded Omagh bombers phone conversations

Yesterday it was widely reported that on BBC television tonight the Panorama investigative programme will claim that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters recorded the mobile phone conversations of the Omagh bombers as they made their way to Omagh on August 15, 1998 and failed to pass the details onto to investigating officers in the aftermath. It is not known if GCHQ was actually monitoring the conversations or simply recording them. If they were being monitored it should have been possible to inform the RUC and have the bombers intercepted. The British Government is refusing to discuss the activities of the highly secretive organisation.

Other news:

PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde is being widely tipped as the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the title given to the head of the police in London. The incumbent, Sir Ian Blair, always seems to be under pressure to submit his resignation.
One the 27 red kites released in the North in July has been found shot dead in a field near Castlewellan, Co. Down. The birds of prey were hunted to extinction in Ireland some 200 years ago and this was one of at least two initiatives to re-introduce them.
Following last Saturday's fatal two-vehicle accident in Downpatrick, Co. Down, Arturas Siuksteris (35) appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving and of being unfit to drive through drink or drugs. Father-of-two Michael Molloy (36) died in the accident.
Tour operators are threatening to boycott Derry after vandals destroyed a tour bus more than a week ago. The vehicle was set alight. Bus owner Seán Martin, of Liberty Tours, said he will be recommending to colleagues in the business that after spending time in Derry they should move on to Letterkenny for their overnight stop.
The trial of Christopher Ward (26), who is accused of taking part in the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery, is currently taking place in Belfast Crown Court. The former bank employee claims that he acted under duress as his family were being held hostage throughout the incident.

The Courts

Galway judge uses her judgement

Judge Mary Fahy made national news when she dismissed alcohol-related cases which she considered were brought under an antiquated law. In Ireland the sale of alcohol is prohibited on Good Friday and Christmas Day except in very specific circumstances. For that reason gardaí in Galway brought nine restaurant owners before the local District Court on charges that on Good Friday they sold wine to diners who wanted a drink with their meal. Although all pleaded guilty Judge Fahy refused to record convictions, saying that she thought it, "absolutely ludicrous that people on holidays especially cannot have a glass of wine with their meal".

Garda ombudsman to return to bench

Justice Kevin Haugh, chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, is expected to return to the bench next February, when he will have served a three-year term. Having served for ten years as a judge of the Circuit Court Justice Haugh will return to the bench as a High Court judge, the position to which he was appointed just before his appointed to the Commission.

Other cases:

Kilkenny District Court heard on Tuesday that a 17-year-old Nigerian due to appear in the court had gone missing while in the care of the Health Service Executive. The girl, who had been trafficked into Ireland, was arrested when gardaí raided a suspected brothel in Kilkenny in June.
An inquest jury returned an open verdict after hearing evidence as to the cause of death of Ekam Singh, a five-week-old baby, who had lived with his parents at Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin. Expert witnesses referred to a skull fracture which was "highly indicative of non-accidental injury". The parents, Kulvinder Singh and Preetnain Kour, have returned to India and refuse to be questioned by gardaí.

Employment & Industrial Relations

Education publisher to create 450 R&D jobs in Dublin

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan announced on Wednesday that global educational publishing company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (formerly Riverdeep) plans to invest €350m in eLearning research and development, with significant support from Enterprise Ireland. The new centre, to be based in the greater Dublin area, will lead to the creation of 450 high-value jobs over the next five years.

The Irish company Riverdeep was founded in 1995 and, as a result of a series of mergers and alliances over the past decade, it has grown rapidly and now has over 50 companies in the new corporate family known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Chairman and CEO is Barry O'Callaghan.

186 new jobs for Cork

Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin on Thursday officially opened the first phase of a €15.6m expansion at the Alcon facility on the IDA Business & Technology Park, Model Farm Road in Cork. At the same time he announced that the leading eye care company is investing a further €21.14m which will result in the creation of 186 additional positions to meet the growing global demand for Alcon's products.

The Alcon Inc. subsidiary, Alcon Laboratories Ireland Ltd, opened in Cork in 2000.

Trade unionists forget they are comrades

Members of the Building and Allied Trade Union are occupying the union headquarters in an effort to force the resignation of the general secretary, Paddy O'Shaughnessy. The trouble started when two staff members were made redundant some months ago as a result, according to Mr O'Shaughnessy, of the downturn in the building industry which saw a big reduction in union dues.

The two staff members, who were members of the Unite union, claimed that on a first-in first-out basis they should not have been selected for redundancy. Somehow the matter escalated and BATU accounts were frozen. Those now occupying the HQ claim they are doing so because the union is no longer able to function in support of its members in what are increasingly difficult times.

Late in the week doubts were raised as to the claim that those on the inside were in fact members of BATU. The quality of the blocklaying, when they decided to block the doorway, suggested that those responsible had never been on a building site in their life.

ESB unions seek 11.25% pay increase over 18 months

While many in the country face unemployment or a pay freeze, unions representing ESB workers have lodged a pay claim which would give their members an 11.25% increase over 18 months. In the past year it has been claimed that inefficiencies in the ESB are adding €100m per year to the nation's electricity bill. It is also frequently reported that ESB staff are the highest paid workers in the State, with an average salary of €73k.

19 redundancies at Monaghan company

Kingspan Insulation Ltd, of Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, laid off 19 workers on Friday, reducing shifts worked at the plant from four to three. The company, which manufactures insulation for floors, walls and roofs, blamed the downturn in the construction industry for the reduction in the workforce.

Industrial action could halt HSE pay rises

Ongoing industrial action since May by members of the union Impact employed by the Health Service Executive may result in the withholding of pay increases. The 28,000 workers involved include administrative, managerial and therapy staff. They are refusing to undertake certain tasks in protest at the HSE's attempts to bring costs under control. The stay on increases may also be imposed on 2000 public health doctors who have refused to co-operate with the introduction of new out-of-hours cover.

Politics & Politicians

Government anxious to end Belarus travel ban

Following a meeting on Monday with Adi Roche, CEO of the Chernobyl Children's Project, Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said that Ireland is ready to negotiate a long-term agreement with Belarus in an effort to lift the travel ban on children suffering the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The Belarusian authorities have been demanding that countries accepting Belarusian children sign up to a set of principles detailing how the children will be taken care of while in the host country. Ireland apparently received a copy of the document a year ago but has yet to sign it.

The Irish Ambassador to Russia, Justin Harmon, is today travelling to Minsk for talks with the Belarusian authorities.

Trying to establish why Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty

After the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty the Government asked Milward Brown IMS to conduct a survey to determine exactly why a majority of the electorate voted No. On Wednesday the results of that survey were published but I am not sure that the Government is any the wiser.

As might have been expected, there were a multitude of reasons and permutations of multiple reasons. Among issues most frequently mentioned were the possible loss of influence for Ireland, corporation tax, neutrality, the loss of the Irish Commissioner, abortion, corporation tax, neutrality, conscription and workers' rights. The most common reason given was a lack of understanding of the Treaty but that was no surprise as most of those who voted Yes would also admit to a lack of understanding.

Legislation to allow sharing of "soft" information for child care

Work on legislation is to begin shortly that will allow "soft" information regarding those involved in childcare to be shared among State agencies. At present only information arising from criminal convictions can be used to prevent people taking up positions involving the care of children. The move comes as a result of recommendations from the all-party Oireachtas Committee on Child Protection, which was chaired by Fianna Fáil TD Mary O'Rourke; it is hoped the legislation will be in place by Christmas.

Minister of State warns State agencies

Speaking to the Association of Chief Executives of State Agencies in Co. Monaghan on Thursday Minister of State Martin Mansergh warned that a significant number of the quangos are due to be merged. One candidate is the Human Rights Commission, which could be merged with a number of equality bodies and the Data Protection Commission. The cull is to be carried out in order to cut administration costs.

Health

12% increase in recorded suicides

The HSE's National Office for Suicide Prevention has reported a 12% rise in the number of recorded suicides in 2007, the first increase in seven years; the numbers had been falling steadily since they peaked in the late 1990s. However the director of the NOSP, Geoff Day, suggested that the rise might be due to improved data collection, although Ireland has the fifth highest European rate of suicide among males under the age of 35.

Pharmacist wins test case against Health Service Executive

Patrick Hickey of Hickey's Pharmacies chain, who took a test case against the Health Service Executive over the reduction of payments to pharmacists under the General Medical Services scheme, has won his case in the Commercial Court. Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan ruled that the HSE's decision to reduce payments to pharmacists was in breach of its contract, and should not have been imposed without first consulting with the Irish Pharamacists' Union. The HSE had refused to negotiate with the IPU for fear of breaching competition laws as they relate to price fixing.

Travel & Tourism

O'Brien's Tower on Cliffs of Moher will reopen to public

O'Brien's Tower, the viewing platform located near the highest point of the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, will undergo restoration in the coming weeks. The tower, constructed by local landlord Cornelius O’Brien in 1835, has been closed to the public since the construction phase of the €31.5m Cliffs of Moher visitor centre. The tower will reopen for the 2009 visitor season.

Tara road ahead of schedule

The new M3 motorway which passes close to the site of Tara is ahead of schedule and could be opened earlier than the official date of June 2010. An ongoing campaign against the road by the TaraWatch environmental group continues to call for the proposed motorway to be replaced by a heritage trail.

Another emergency for Ryanair

The latest incident to involve a Ryanair flight saw an aircraft flying from Dublin to Stansted making an emergency landing in Dublin shortly after take-off on Thursday morning. Part of the aircraft's tail hit the runway on take-off and cabin pressure dropped, resulting in oxygen masks being deployed. The 148 passengers were offered seats on the next two flights to Stansted although, given that the date of the incident was September 11, some decided to travel by sea instead.

Also during the week Ryanair announced that it will ending its Derry-Bristol service with effect from October 1. The airline will end its Derry-East Midlands flights and will instead fly between Derry and Birmingham.

The Irish Abroad

Irish representative on UN Human Rights Committee re-elected

Professor Michael O'Flaherty, Ireland's candidate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, has been re-elected with support from 136 out of the 157 States participating in the election. The other eight successful candidates had total votes ranging from 86 to 117. The UN Human Rights Committee comprises experts, serving in their personal capacity, who assess how States are meeting their obligations under the UN's major human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin expressed his delight with the news, saying, "I warmly congratulate Michael O'Flaherty on his emphatic re-election to the UN Human Rights Committee. This is a great honour for him personally and also for Ireland. He has served with great distinction during his first term on the Committee and can now make a further valuable contribution.

He added, "We are delighted that our efforts on his behalf have borne fruit. Our diplomatic network, in particular our Missions to the UN in New York and Geneva, played an active role in the election campaign".

Prof. O'Flaherty is a native of Galway and a graduate of UCD. He is currently Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the School of Law, University of Nottingham.

Dublin-born Abbot is new head of Cistercians

Dom Éamon Fitzgerald (63), the Abbot of Mount Melleray in Co. Waterford, has been elected head of the Cistercian Order. The Dublin born monk, who joined the order in 1966, takes up his new role with immediate effect. He will be based in Rome but for much of the time he will be travelling on visits to Cistercian monasteries around the world.

President to visit Romania

President McAleese will pay a three-day State Visit to Romania from September 22 to 24. On her arrival in Bucharest the President will address a business dinner hosted by Enterprise Ireland. On Tuesday she will receive a ceremonial welcome to Romania before a formal meeting with President Basescu, and will then meet with the presidents of both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

Also during the visit the President will meet members of the local Irish community and be conferred with an Honorary Professorship by the University of Cluj, where she will meet with faculty and students of the Irish Studies MA programme.

South Africans jailed for 25 years for attack on Irish priest

In South Africa two men convicted of the attempted murder of Belfast-born Fr Kieran Creagh were each jailed for 25 years. Godfrey Phatlane and Edward Lesufi were convicted of shooting Fr Creagh while carrying out a robbery at the AIDS hospice which he founded near Pretoria. The incident happened in March of last year and although very seriously injured Fr Creagh has made a full recovery and is back in South Africa.

Taoiseach to address UN conference

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will address the United Nations later this month, one of a number of heads of government who have been asked to announce proposals for meeting the millennium development goals. The conference takes place on September 25.

Conservation & The Environment

Debate over dramatic changes to the Ballsbridge streetscape

Much was written during the week for and against the 37-storey tower which developer Seán Dunne would like to build on the site of the old Jury's hotel in Ballsbridge. Dublin City Council has given permission for a modified development, with the highest structure limited to 18 storeys. At an An Bord Pleanála hearing, which opened on Tuesday, there were those who said that the development is still too high and others who argued that the original plan should be accepted. An Bord Pleanála is dealing with a record 127 objections; 36 are opposed to the original proposals and 91 are opposed to the council modifying the proposed development in any way.

Ireland guilty on water quality issue

The European Court of Justice had little alternative but to find Ireland in breach of an EU directive on treatment of waste water in areas where the population exceeds 15,000. Despite the EU announcing in 1991 that by 2000 all waste water from such areas would have to receive secondary treatment, sewage from Bray, Howth, Shanganagh, Letterkenny, Sligo and Tramore is still ending up in the sea after primary treatment.

The Court has instructed Ireland to provide the necessary water-treatment works but did not impose a fine.

A few days before the ruling was published John Bailey, a Fine Gael member of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, failed in his attempt to further postpone the building a a secondary waste water treatment plant at Shanganagh.

Cork harbour waste poses no major threat, report finds

Preliminary results from tests carried out by consultants White Young Green on waste material from the former Irish Ispat plant at Haulbowline in Cork have ruled out any major threat to public health. However speaking at a meeting of Cobh Town Council Minister for the Environment John Gormley issued a caveat in that the tests are not yet complete, nor have they been peer-reviewed.

During the meeting Minister Gormley was repeatedly verbally abused by Labour councillor John Mulvihill Snr. The council chairman had great difficulty in bringing Mr Mulvihill to order and it didn't help that the chairman was John Mulvihill Jnr, who must have learned his manners from his mother.

Education

Minister is in favour of tuition fees

In an interview with the Irish Times, Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe revealed that when he started a debate on the possible re-introduction of third-level tuition fees he did so in the belief that it will lead to changes in the current system. At present the State pays for the tuition of students attending university, institutes of technology and teacher training colleges. This is the situation irrespective of the wealth of the parents of the student. Mr O'Keeffe asks why the taxpayer should fund the education of people who could well afford to pay for it themselves, seeming to imply that the wealthy still fail to pay their share of taxes.

Junior Cert results released

Wednesday was a big day for more than 56,000 of the nation's 15- and 16—year-olds who received the results of their Junior Certificate exams. Statistically they appear to have performed in similar fashion to their recent predecessors, although Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe claimed to be encouraged by the numbers taking science subjects, and higher level maths.

Entertainment & The Arts

Sebastian Barry on Man Booker shortlist

Sebastian Barry has been shortlisted for this year's Man Booker prize with his novel "The Secret Scripture" in which an old woman, wrongly committed to a psychiatric hospital decades earlier, and her recently widowed psychiatrist keep separate accounts of their meetings.

New York-based Irish author Joseph O'Neill had been favourite for this year's prize, for his novel "Netherland", but he failed to make the shortlist.

Deaths

Death announced of Kairos founder

Fr Michael Melvin SVD, who founded Kairos Communications, died on Tuesday at the age of 61. The Maynooth-based television production company was responsible for a number of programmes on RTE and TG4, including "Mono".

Death of teacher at centre of 1982 controversy

The death took place during the week of Eileen Roche, nee Flynn, who was dismissed from her teaching post at the Holy Faith Convent in New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1982, after giving birth to a son whose father was a separated man. Mrs Roche (53) challenged her dismissal in court but lost, and didn't teach for many years. The priest who officiated at her funeral service spoke of her love of teaching but made no reference to what was a huge controversy in 1982.

Road deaths in Counties Limerick, Longford, Dublin and Kerry

The man who lost his life in a road accident outside Galbally, Co. Limerick last Saturday morning was named as James Kinsella (56) of Garryspillane, Kilmallock.
Patrick Masterson (40) of Castletown, Finea, Co. Westmeath was fatally injured at around 3:00am on Monday when the car he was driving crashed into a ditch on the R396 between Abbeylara and Coole in Co. Longford.
Mary Lewis (82), from Rathmines, died in St James' Hospital early on Tuesday from injuries she sustained in a traffic accident a day earlier. Ms Lewis was walking on the pavement of Terenure Road East, Dublin 6W, when she was struck by a car reversing out of the driveway of a house.
Donal O'Connor (25), from Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, was killed early on Tuesday afternoon when the car he was driving crashed into a parked truck on the R552 at Ballylion.
A 51-year-old male pedestrian died in hospital at 2:00am yesterday, about an hour after he was struck by a bus on the N11 at Cornelscourt in south Dublin.

Business News

INBS may sue Reuters over false report

The Irish Nationwide Building Society is considering legal action against Reuters which recently filed a story claiming that the INBS was in serious financial difficulty and was in "talks with its lenders to avoid insolvency".

Initially the story appeared without the INBS being asked to comment. Later it included a denial from the building society. The item was subsequently withdrawn altogether, with a spokeswoman for Reuters admitting that it had not been subjected to the normal verification process.

Diageo returns to Guinness roots

Further to Diageo's earlier announced rationalisation plan for its brewing activities in this country, it was revealed on Wednesday that the new Guinness brewery will be built on the banks of the Liffey in Leixlip, Co. Kildare. In choosing Leixlip as the site for the new brewery, Diageo is returning to the brand's original home; Arthur Guinness began his brewing company in the Co. Kildare town in 1756 and the Guinness family still owns some of the 50-acre site of the new brewery. All the products of the new facility will be for export, and it is expected to provide 170 jobs. Guinness sold in the Irish and British markets will continue to be brewed at St James' Gate, albeit in a new facility.

Lower oil prices won't affect cost of electricity

Consumers in the Republic recently saw their electricity and gas bills increase substantially and were warned that further price rises would come into effect in January. It seems that despite the recent drop in the price of oil these increases will still be implemented, as the ESB has entered agreements to buy fuel throughout the winter at prices higher than those currently prevailing.

Permission granted for Limerick shopping centre

Limerick City Council has granted planning permission for the €350m Opera Centre in the city which will be the largest such complex in the mid-West. No date has yet been confirmed for work to begin on the 38,500 sq m centre, though it is expected to bring more than 300 jobs during construction and a further 800 on completion.

Gap narrows between supermarket prices

Where last December there was a difference of 59% in grocery prices between cut-price stores Aldi and Lidl, and Tesco and Dunnes own-brand goods, the gap has narrowed to 33.9%. The figures are contained in the latest report from the National Consumer Agency, which also reports that the gap between the three main multiples, Dunnes, Tesco and Superquinn, has also narrowed from just over one per cent to 0.3%. The survey further showed that the rate of increase of both branded and own-brand goods in the supermarkets is slowing.

Latest tax trawl yields €12.24m

The latest 93 tax defaulters unearthed by Revenue made settlements totalling €12.24m, with Cork company director Patrick Keane lodging the largest amount at €635,565. A significant number of those on the list were investigated under the bogus non-resident account and premium insurance product sectors.

Weather

After another damp Sunday we are left with the impression that that is how it was throughout the week, but I see from my notes that the sun shone for brief periods on Monday and Tuesday and that Friday was dry. On Wednesday the remnants of Hurricane Hanna arrived, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.

The spell of dry weather that we had been waiting for all summer long seems about to arrive. Rain is forecast in the east of the country on Monday and Tuesday but after that a high pressure system is expected to bring dry sunny conditions which should last through next Sunday at least.

Here in the west the dry spell started yesterday evening but we might see some rain for a time on Thursday, although the brief spell of damp weather forecast for the north west may not reach as far as Galway.

Latest Temperatures: Day 16C (61F).................Night 12C (54F)

S P O R T

G.A.A.

All Ireland U-21 Hurling Final
Kilkenny 2-13 Tipperary 0-15

All Ireland Camogie Final
Cork 2-10 Galway 1-8

Soccer

World Cup Qualifiers Group 8
Wed: Montenegro 0 Ireland 0
Italy 2 Georgia 0

FAI Cup Quarter Finals
Sp. Fingal 3 St Pat’s Ath 3
Galway Utd 1 Bray Wanderers 1
Cork City 1 Derry City 1
W'side Celtic 1 Bohemians 6

Eircom Premier Division
Bohemians 3 St Pat’s Ath 0
Cork City 1 Derry City 1
Finn Harps 1 Drogheda Utd 3

Rugby

Magners League
Cardiff 16 Ulster 15
Leinster 52 Edinburgh 6
L Scarlets 45 Connacht 3
Munster 50 NG Dragons 6

Golf

In the final competition before the Ryder Cup, Graeme McDowell was the best of the Irish at the Mercedez Benz Championship in Germany. He finished on –2, 11 shots behind winner Robert Karlsson. The rest of the Irish involved were Darren Clarke on level par, Paul McGinley and Damien McGrane on four over and Peter Lawrie on +9.
Gareth Maybin, of the Ballyclare club, had his first victory on the European Challenge Tour yesterday, his 28th birthday, when he had something of a runaway win in the inaugural Qingdao Golf Open in China. He opened with a 62 and led throughout, finishing on 19-under, six strokes clear of the field. The €56k winner's cheque put him at the top of the Challenge Tour rankings, and guaranteed him full playing privileges on the European Tour next year.
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