Top Stories: College football » Notre Dame freshman linebacker Manti Te'o says he will delay taking a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and return next season. Te'o, who started t... Salt Lake Tribune Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:26:28 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> There is a woman I know whose eyes still fill with tears when she talks about the Christmas pres... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:06:19 -0500Dec 27 2009 Gordon Brown has been urged by a senior government minister not to turn the general election campaign into a "hideous" class war with David Cameron. Tessa Jowell, the Cabinet Office Mi... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:17:39 -0500Dec 27 2009 The former London student charged with attempting to blow up a transatlantic airliner carrying 278 passengers was barred from Britain. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab finished an engineering... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:17:38 -0500Citing a number of sources, the Irish edition of the London-based Sunday Times newspaper said Lenihan received the diagnosis after tests this month, adding that Prime Minister Brian Cowen had asked hi... Reuters Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:29:48 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> CONCERNS WERE raised last night about Brian Lenihan’s future as finance minister ... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:19:05 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> A DUBLIN hospital has built a database containing the DNA of almost every person born i... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:19:03 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> An Irish monk has taken the commercial world by surprise after being named in a list of the top 10... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:19:01 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> WHILE most of the country was still sleeping off the celebrations yesterday morning, Graha... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:57 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Eamon Gilmore has pledged that the Labour party will not represent the trade union movement in gov... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:55 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> AN INDEPENDENT investigation into the ambulance service in the northeast of the country ha... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:53 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> PUBLIC SERVANTS will be paid between 9% and 12% less in January than they were in December... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:51 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> It was the Year of Heads-on-Plates when the establishment was finally shamed into aband... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:49 -0500END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> They may have beaten us at football but when it comes to cycling, we’re zipp... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:41 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> CERTAIN public figures are planning to become even more public in 2010. The singer ... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:41 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Dr Martin Drennan, the Bishop of Galway and the only former auxiliary bishop of Dublin still in situ ... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:38 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> DERMOT McCARTHY, the most senior civil servant in the country, has accepted a string of corporate hos... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:36 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> As politicians steel themselves for the battles ahead, Brian Lenihan is one of the few cabinet min... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:34 -0500This latest attempt will lead to further changes. Umar Mutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who allegedly attempted to explode a device on board Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it descended towards D... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:32 -0500END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with pair of portrait images (c) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> IN Vila Fabril, a tiny factory town in the Brazilian state of Goias, it&r... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:28 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> In his self-styled role as architect of the good times, Charlie McCreevy also poses as the ultimat... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:27 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Brian Cowen doesn’t have too much respect for the media, so I’d imagine his mood on Mo... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:26 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> The Christmas party season has been so terrible I’m almost afraid to go out. I’ve been me... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:25 -0500Nevertheless, in 2002 the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO) introduced a boardroom training programme called Female Future, aimed at fast-tracking talented women to board level.... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:23 -0500END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> On a Dublin campus a poster of Tiger Woods hung unapologetically over the recruiting stall for the... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:21 -0500END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Brian O’Driscoll is possibly among the very few who will remember 2009 as ... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:16 -0500END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Between Barack Obama and Tiger Woods, it wasn’t such a good December for ... Times Online Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:18:12 -0500International credit ratings agency Moody’s expects to see substantial impairments in the buy-to-let mortgage market in Ireland, according to a recently published report.The agency also said it was ... Irish Examiner Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:04:23 -0500The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irishman has drowned in Tenerife. The man was holidaying on the island with his family. It is understood he was from Dublin. RTE Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:03:03 -0500Dec 26 2009 A British-based student at the centre of a major terror investigation on both sides of the Atlantic is to be charged in Detroit with trying to blow up a plane, US officials said. Umar ... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:59:17 -0500Dec 26 2009 Some airlines are telling passengers that new security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing. Air Canada said in a statement that new rule... Loughborough Echo Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:44:29 -0500The Carers' Association is urging families across the country to share the burden of care this Christmas.There is added pressure on family carers over the festive period, with the majority of day and ... Breaking News.ie Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:37:41 -0500Dec 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 -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 -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... 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