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DIPLOMATIC tension between Ireland and France has become intense as the fallout from the World Cup handball affair gathers political momentum.
WIDESPREAD flooding throughout the country – which closed towns and businesses, inundated hundreds of farms, homes and schools and caused traffic chaos – is likely to be repeated over the weekend as forecasters predict a continuation of unsettled conditions.
EUROPE's top jobs were filled in record time at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels last night, but the initial reaction was one of disappointment.
THE haggling over Europe's top jobs ended quietly and quickly last night before the European Union's 27 leaders even got to the main course of their dinner meeting.
AFGHANISTAN will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged yesterday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government's first term.
IN the VIP lounge at Dublin airport last night, as he awaited his flight home to Milan, the emotion of the preceding 24 hours finally got to Giovanni Trapattoni.
RYANAIR will be applying within weeks to the High Court for a judicial review of what it calls the Department of Transport's order to the aviation regulator to increase passenger prices at Dublin Airport by 40% next year.
RUGBY fans should well remember what Neil Back did to Munster in 2002. It was the closing minutes of the Heineken Cup final between the Irish team and his side, Leicester. The English side is winning by 15 points to 9, but Munster have a scrum in front of the Leicester posts, in a perfect position to launch a final assault on the Leicester line, to score a try that would have left Munster with a conversion to win the cup.
Tony Leen, Sports Editor
THIS Parisien palaver about Thierry Henry's helping hand may all amount to nought, but it's done wonders for the Republic of Ireland and the FAI.
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