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The rats lawyer argued not all rats could have received the summons and couldnt appear in court because they might be eaten by cats. BY DAvID YOUNg Norths third day of car hijackings little drummer girl Skellig path claims 2nd life A WOMAN has died after falling from a path on a Co Kerry island, the same path where another tourist died after a fall four months ago. The 57- year-old tourist from the US died of head injuries after she tripped and fell about ten metres from a path on Skellig Michael yesterday morning. She had been walking on the Unesco World Heritage Site with her husband when she fell. She was tended to by a doctor and nurse who were visiting the island but later died of her injuries. In May, Joseph Gaughan, 77, from Pennsylvania, lost his footing on the same path and fell ten metres, sustaining serious head injuries from which he later died. At an inquest into his death, coroner Terence Casey recommended that a warning sign be erected on the site. About 600 stone steps, which do not have safety rails, lead to the rocks summit containing seventh century monastic remains. Ishthara Larkin, seven, plays a traditional Indian drum at the gaiety Theatre to celebrate Indias renowned theatre spectacle, The Manganiyer Seduction, as part of the 2009 Dublin Theatre Festival. The show will open the festival on Thursday which runs until Sunday Picture: Photocall SOUTH Africas sports ministry has called for the axing of the countrys athletics chief for lying about gender tests made on runner Caster Semenya before her World Championship victory in Berlin last month. Leonard Chuene, president of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has admitted that Semenya was subjected to gender tests. He had previously denied this, he said, to protect the 800m gold-medalists privacy. The countrys deputy sports minister, Mr Gert Oosthuizen, asked the ASA to fire Mr Chuene for his lies, which he said were to the detriment of Ms Semenya. A report in Australias Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed that Semenya had both male and female sexual characteristics. The debate over Semenyas gender has angered many South Africans, who accuse the IAAF of racism for ordering the tests, saying her imposing physique is common in womens athletics. Athletics chief in sex tests furore gender tests: Caster Semenya ARMED men hijacked two vehi- cles in Co Armagh yesterday as disturbances flared in the area for a third successive day. In one of the hijacking incidents at a railway crossing in Lurgan, two men, one armed with a hand- gun, stopped a woman driver, told her they had strapped an explosive device to her lorry and ordered her to drive to the nearest police sta- tion. The woman drove a short dis- tance before stopping and calling the police. An examination of the lorry found nothing suspicious. In the other incident, several men one armed with a gun and one with a knife hijacked a mans car at the Drumbeg roundabout in Craigavon. The troubles have continued despite a police crackdown on po- tential dissident republican vio- lence launched amid fears that extremists were plotting a cam- paign of disorder ahead of tomor- rows arrival of Northern Irelands new PSNI Chief Constable, Matt Baggott. The disorder first flared on Thurs- day night in Lurgan after the jail- ing of three local dissident republi- cans for plotting to kill police officers. During the first night of trouble, more than five vehicles were hi- jacked and set on fire and PSNI of- ficers received numerous reports of armed men on the streets in what they said was clearly pre-planned orchestrated violence. The disturbances forced the clo- sure of the rail line between Dublin and Belfast on Friday after another series of hijackings in the Lurgan/ Craigavon area. Police yesterday appealed for witnesses to come forward. Safety issue: Skellig Michael DETECTIVES were last night investigating two separate domestic incidents that left a woman and a man dead. The body of Lisa Doyle, 24, was found in her home in Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow at dawn yesterday after a man handed himself over to Garda. It has not been confirmed when or how Ms Doyle died but it is believed detectives are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death. About an hour later, a 33-year-old Dublin man died in the Mater Hospital after falling five storeys from a block of flats onto a car on the citys northside. His partner was also brought to hospital for injuries believed to have been sustained prior to the fall. No arrests were made. The incident happened at around 7am yesterday at the Hamptons, Santry Cross, Ballymun. two people die in domestic cases index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html