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Country counts Halloween cost as politicians run amok
The country was this morning counting the cost after a weekend of savage debauchery as gangs of Government ministers, TDs and their aides ran riot. »
Diggers to be impounded in vacant hotels and shops to avert atm crime
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern is to introduce emergency legislation to impound all diggers and other plant machinery in an effort to put a stop to the recent spate of atm robberies using stolen diggers. »
Lenihan claims tree stump depicts Kathleen ni Houlihan
The unprecedented pressure the Government is under finally led to a split in the Cabinet yesterday when a fistfight broke out between Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan after Mr Lenihan insisted that the tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which is alleged to depict the Virgin Mary and... »
Cabinet concern as ‘God’ and ‘Country’ square off
The rift between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has widened after Mr Ahern refused to leave his vigil at the tree stump in Rathkeale in Limerick to attend a meeting with Mr Cowen over the President’s council of state meeting. »
Taoiseach banks on tree stump to save economy
The Mire has just learned that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has asked the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan to drop everything and go directly to Rathkeale in Limerick where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared as an outline in a tree stump. »
Cowen fears ‘a very Mirish coup’
The Mire has learned that a major row has erupted between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern over legislation to criminalise the act of directing a criminal gang. The Taoiseach fears that the legislation could be used to remove him from office. »