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Institute 'not told of' childcare lecturer's lewd acts
CHILDCARE academic Dr Niall McElwee continued to work for three years even though both gardai and health authorities knew of his attempted indecent assault of teenage girls in an Amsterdam hotel.
Outcry as Ahern launches bid to avoid tribunal cash grilling
TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern launched a major bid yesterday to stop the Mahon Tribunal calling him to give evidence.
Sex, texts and a gripping tale of marital infidelity
NOT even painstakingly detailed about how mobile phone communications work could put them off. Everyone sitting in Court Number Two this week listened intently during a week of compelling evidence in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly.
Streisand could be singing in the rain to a soggy crowd
LEGENDARY diva Barbra Streisand will be praying the heavens don't rain on her parade when she takes to an outdoor stage in Co Kildare tonight for her first-ever Irish concert.
Pretty in pink Victoria in sparkling form on LA debut
DAVID and Victoria Beckham arrived to a ticker-tape welcome in America yesterday as the soccer star was formally presented as a member of the LA Galaxy team.
Bertie's appetite for cross-border bodies revealed
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Reds' £37m spree But Benitez insists it's no guarantee of success
LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez yesterday took his summer spending to an estimated £37m with the addition of Holland forward Ryan Babel but admitted it might not be enough to wrest the Premier League title from Manchester United.
Arrogance and insecurity of 'Miss Amiel' was sub-plot in complex tale
ONE of the most perceptive things ever written about Barbara Amiel, journalist, hostess and shopaholic, appeared six years ago in the Canadian newspaper the 'Globe and Mail'.
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Kings of Leon
In rock, certain codes of deference apply. Such as: don't hug Bob Dylan. "His people tell you not to even touch him," says the Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill, "but I hugged him before I could even think about it."
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Rock 'n rolling in the mud
Music fans defy weather and turn out in force for the Oxegen music festival in Punchestown, Co Kildare
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The End is Nigh
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National anthemns
Matt Berninger of The National tells John Meagher about their latest album
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Homer's odyssey reaches silver screen
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Sunshine and showers
FESTIVAL-GOERS may be spared a drenching this weekend, but they shouldn't ditch the umbrellas just yet.
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Who's that girl?
KYLIE Minogue is set to join the cast of Doctor Who in this year's hour-long Christmas Special.
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Win tickets to the Midlands Music Festival
See top acts including Christy Moore, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, Jose Gonzalez and Aimee Mann...
Investors are facing exit penalty for two Hibernian property funds
INVESTMENT group Hibernian has imposed an exit penalty in a move to discourage investors cashing out of two of their property funds.
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Columnist Comments
• Quickly, we must prepare a tribunal, for I once bumped into Charlie Haughey in 1985
IT WAS not so much with disbelief that I read that the Mahon Tribunal has written to a child sexual abuse charity of which Bertie Ahern's ex-wife Miriam was once a patron, as with total incomprehension.
