METRO Monday, October 5, 2009 D PAULA HAS NO HOME... BUT SHE STILL HAS HOPE Simon Week - 7 Days of Action on Homelessness 5th-11th October 2009 I never thought this could happen to me. No one ever does. Support Simon Week and help people like Paula get their lives back on track. Visit www.simon.ie to find out how you can help. www.simon.ie Supported by because nothing means more than a home Greens not holding gun to Fianna Filby joanne ahern Models Lynn Kelly and Suzanne McCabe launch the new GIVe collection by fashion guru George Davies. The affordable luxury range will be available exclusively at Dublin department store arnotts Picture: Jason Clarke strikinG a pose A CYCLIST had a lucky escape after she plunged more than 25 metres down a cliff but was rescued by a mystery Good Samaritan. The 50-year-old lost control of her bike in Somersets Cheddar Gorge, in the UK. By the time rescuers arrived, she had been given first aid by a climber, who then vanished. The woman is in hospital with a suspected broken collar bone. SEEKING help for mental health problems is a sign of strength rather than weakness, Irelands Catholic bishops have said. The bishops expressed the hope that their focus on suicide outlined in a pastoral letter marking yesterdays Day For Life will raise awareness of the role families and a supportive parish can play in sustaining those who are struggling to cope. The bishops also voiced support for those who have lost someone through suicide. Bishops focus on suicide TWO males were released last night after being arrested following a hit-and-run incident in Co Galway in which a 19-year-old man died yesterday morning. Garda say the arrested males are a 21-year-old and a minor. The youth was struck by a car on the Moycullen to Barna Road and was pronounced dead at the scene. A file is being prepared for the DPP. A post-mortem examination is to be carried out today. 2 freed after hit and run Elizabeth Murphy and Jack Harmes at a picnic held in Merrion Square to mark the 11th European Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation Picture: Mac Innes THE Dublin City Council bike rental scheme has already received more than twice the number of applications that it was expecting for the entire year. According to a report yesterday, the council had set 5,000 as a target number of subscribers for the first year of operation of the dublinbikes scheme, but it received 11,000 applications within its first two weeks of operation. Bike plan is twice target AN IRA bomber hanged himself in a police cell because he couldnt face returning to jail, Republican sources said. John Brady, 40, was jailed in 1991 for killing a policeman in a car bomb attack near Strabane in Co Tyrone and released in 1998 under the Good Friday Agreement. He was found dead in Strand Road PSNI station in Derry on Saturday, after his arrest on Friday night in relation to a domestic dispute. The Police Ombudsman has investigating. IRA bomber dead in cell DETECTIVES are treating a blaze that killed an 81- year-old man as suspicious. The pensioner, Michael Crowe, died in the fire at his home in Pirc Mhuire, Newbridge, Co Kildare, in the early hours of Sunday. Mr Crowes wife escaped with her life and was being treated in Naas General Hospital. Garda have appealed for help from anyone who noticed anything suspicious between 1am and 6am yesterday. Fatal blaze suspicious BEGGARS have been hit hard by the recession. This time last year, beggars in Dublin were estimated to be earning around 100 a day. However, research carried out by Henry McKean for the Moncrieff Show on Newstalk 106-108FM suggests that the realistic figure is now closer to 25 per day. The reporter spent the past week begging in locations around Dublin, and collected 70 throughout the whole week. He said: It was a very humbling experience. Beggars feel the pinch METRODigest Martin: Greens deal FOREIGN Affairs Minister Michel Martin has said he is confident a deal can be reached with the Green Party on a revised programme for Government. The junior coalition partners are seeking measures which include tax increases, Dil reform and a reversal of recent education cuts, but they appear to have shelved demands for a ban on hare coursing. Speaking on RT radio, Mr Martin denied the Greens were holding a gun to Fianna Fils head and said that it is appropriate that the programme be reviewed halfway through the Governments term, as it was in the last one. If ever there was a time for the Green Party to be in government, it is now. This is the energy security era; it is the era of climate change, he said. Mr Martin did not rule out returning education spending to September 2008 levels. He said there would be many methods of achieving finance minister Brian Lenihans 4billion education cuts. There will be many variations and methodologies in terms of achieving that, so it will be about prioritisation of key spending areas over others, he said. Talks between the Government parties are continuing and the Green Party is to decide on a renewed programme for Government at a convention in Dublin on Saturday. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html