METRO Wednesday, September 16, 2009 D Get your copy of UCD Connections magazine with The Irish Times today TODAY: Mainly dry with a mix of sun and cloud. Max: 16C TOMORROW: Dry and settled with sunny spells. Max: 16C METRO Weather France approves internet piracy law FRANCE yesterday approved a pioneering bill allowing authorities to cut off Internet access to people who download illegally, a measure that entertainment companies hope will be a powerful weapon against piracy. But critics say the bill threatens civil liberties, and questions remain about exactly how the law will be enforced. MENU tHe Home Digest 4 Guilty Pleasures Celebrity gossip 6 World Digest 10 MetroLife Arts and entertainment 12-13 60 Second Interview Comedian Maz Jobrani 14 TV 14-15 Puzzles & Letters 16-17 Classifieds 18-20 Sport 21-24 Help keep Dublin clean and tidy for everyone by taking your Metro with you and recycling it Cyclists death leads to traffic corps criticism SAFE cycling campaigners hit out at the garda traffic corps yesterday after a middle-aged man died when he was knocked off his bike by an articulated lorry in Dublin. Dr Mike McKillen, Dublin Cycling Campaign chairman, claimed garda are not prosecuting drivers who put bike users in danger, saying: Garda do not see cycling as being vulnerable and requiring proper traffic enforcement. Brian Farrell, of the Road Safety Authority, said pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists are most at risk, adding: Vulnerable road users will come off worse. Seven cyclists have been killed on the countrys roads this year, out of a total road death toll of 171. Jonathan Soo, from the Western Academy of Beijing, checks his teams entry at the fifth Formula One in Schools World Championships, at the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster, London Picture: PA Design revolution BY COn DOHeRTY tax dodgers pay revenue 17.5mA CHAMPION jockey, a Fine Gael councillor and a former lap-dancing club owner were named yesterday in the Revenues latest list of tax dodgers. Swords councillor Anne Devitt forked out 50,000 for under-declar- ing income tax and capital gains tax in her position as a legal consultant. Top jockey Jamie Spencer of New- market, Suffolk, in the UK, paid 102,855 for under-declaring capital gains tax following an audit by Revenue. Mr Spencer, originally from Co Tipperary, shared the title of British Champion Jockey with Seb Sanders in 2007. And also on the defaulters list is Mary Cullen, the former owner of Strings lap-dancing club on Lower Leeson Street, who forked out 261,736 for under-declaring Vat and PAYE/PRSI. Mary Cullen is the wife of John Cullen, convicted in 1987 of mur- dering prostitute Dolores Lynch and Ms Lynchs mother and aunt in 1983. Four people made settlements of more than 1million. Solicitor Barry Fitzgerald, of Forster Street, Galway, made the biggest settlement of 2.57million for under-declaring income tax, Vat and Capital Gains Tax. He was closely followed by fellow solicitor Gerard Moylan, based in Loughrea, Co Galway, who cleared a bill of 1.29million for under-de- claring income tax arising from a bogus-non resident account case by the Revenue. In the three months between April 1 and June 30, 87 settlements were made which totalled 17.56million. The list published by Revenue in- cluded five settlements totalling 2.48 million which were related to Bogus Non-Resident Accounts; 14 settlements worth 2.16million which were linked to Offshore Funds and 16 valued at 3.16million which were part of an inquiry into Single Premium Insurance Products. Of the 87 published settlements, 38 were for amounts that were in excess of 100,000, with eight exceeding 500,000 and four of that eight put at more than 1million. Other defaulters who paid out settlements of more than 1million included fisherman Cornelius Mini- hane, of Filane, Castletownbere, in Co Cork, who forked out 1,192,843.25 for under-declaring income tax, following a Revenue Audit Case. Business consultant Paul McGlade, of Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2, settled for 1,024,184.80 for under- declaring capital gains tax, also fol- lowing an audit by Revenue. Victims and killers not equal A FATHER who lost his 12-year-old son in the Omagh bomb yesterday backed calls for paramilitaries to be barred from any future Troubles compensation scheme. Victor Barker said there was a hierarchy of victims and added it was wrong to compare the death of his son James with that of a bomber. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Assembly member Jeffrey Donaldson has launched a public consultation on a private members bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly to narrow the definition of a victim to exclude the killers. Nationalists vowed to oppose the measure and accused the DUP of playing party politics with the issue. Mr Barker said: I still think there is a distinct difference between someone engaged in terrorism who puts his own life at risk and a completely innocent party like a child. Sinn Fins Francie Molloy said any attempt by the DUP to create a pecking order of victims would be vigorously opposed. 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