METRO Monday, December 14, 2009 D nowopen CULT 6-10 suffolk street, dublin 2 cult.co.uk METRODigest HARD-UP Daniel Dixon was caught red handed after stealing a sexy Santa outfit to surprise his girlfriend. The 22- year-old was collared by police just moments after he snatched the racy get-up from a store in Sunderland, England. Dixon stole the item out of affection for his girlfriend, stressed his lawyer. But I anticipate he was expecting some reward by her wearing it, he added. City magistrates deferred sentencing until next year. THOSE responsible for the murder of Limerick man Daniel Fitzgerald will have to answer for what they have done, a priest warned at his funeral mass on Saturday. The 24-year-old from Old Pallas was shot dead last Tuesday night when a gunman opened fire at his uncles cottage near Ballysimon. The murder is believed to be linked to an attack on a vehicle belonging to a criminal gang member the previous night. Nine people have been questioned and 440,000 worth of cocaine and heroin seized by garda as part of the murder investigation. Funeral held of Limerick murder victim THIEVES who tried to steal a bank cash machine in Co Armagh yesterday were foiled by swift action from the public and the police. The gang used a digger to ram the side of a filling station on the Green Road between Camlough and Bessbrook but fled after members of the public contacted police, with officers said to have been at the scene within minutes. The attempted theft, the 19th in recent months, came after two ATMs were stolen in Cootehill in Co Cavan on Saturday. In both cases, a digger and a lorry were used to seize the machines. Two ATMs stolen but public foils third AN IRISH language agency has come in for criticism over its decision to hire 16 new staff to work on a new Irish language dictionary and edit text books, during a time when public sector recruitment has been frozen. Foras na Gaeilge has said the recruitment freeze did not apply to north-south bodies, which the agency says it is. The appointments totalling 800,000 were given the go ahead by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, which said the posts were approved prior to the recruitment freeze coming into force. Language agency defends new jobs THE family of 15-month-old Millie Martin, who died after a horrific assault at a house in Enniskillen, in Northern Ireland, have paid tribute to their darling little angel. A 30-year-old man was being questioned by detectives in connection with the killing. Results of a post-mortem examination on the little girls body were being withheld for operational reasons, the PSNI said. Meanwhile police arrested a 20-year-old man after a 28-year-old man was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Portstewart in Co Derry. Tributes paid to murdered toddler International students and their importance to the economy of Dublin were acknowledged at a welcome reception given for more than 120 of them, including Lauren Dillon and Amelia McLaughlin from the USA, by Lord Mayor Emer Costello in the Mansion House Cycle in the city? You must be madBY ROSS McDONAGH Confused? Mind- boggling lanes reverse the normal rule of keeping left at South Campshires, near the IFSC CYCLISTS are being called upon to voice their criticism of Dublins sub- standard cycle lanes. Website Dublincycling.com has published a series of photographs taken by cyclists showing the dam- aged, hidden, confusing and unsafe conditions bicycle users are expect- ed to travel in. There is an element of green washing about the current provi- sion of cycle lanes, said James Leahy of Dublin Cycling Campaign. They are put in by local councils to be seen to be doing something to promote cycling. But in many cases, they actually make it more danger- ous to be there than if they were just using the regular road. Most of the cycle lanes across the entire city will need remedial work as they werent designed properly in the first place. It is a similar situation elsewhere, he added. South Campshires in the Dock- lands is one of the worst offenders, with sprawling and bewildering junctions in one area and narrow 1.2-metre-wide two-way tracks in others. Bollards encroach along the track at perfect height to clip handle- bars, while at another stage the cycle lane abruptly ends on the wrong side of the road, forcing cyclists out into oncoming traffic. Photos from Inchicore show the track riddled with potholes, some made even more dangerous by Tar- mac patch-ups. One cyclist claims to have found Dublins narrowest cycle lane on the SouthCircularRoad,amere600mm wide, narrower than the handlebars of a bike, while another spotted the capitals shortest on Aungier Street, where a road repair crew covered all but two feet of the lane in Tarmac and didnt repaint it. And its not just Dublin. A long cycle lane in Doughiska, Co Galway, which is broken up every few metres to give right of way to cars at several junctions, forces cyclists to either dismount every time or risk being knocked off their bike. Bumpy: Off-road conditions on Inchicore Road Stop-start: Cyclists in Galway are flummoxed index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html