e-metro.ie 26.01.2010 P15 British prime minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen arrived in Northern Ireland last night to lead emergency talks aimed at saving Stormonts crisis-hit power- sharing government after the talks failed to reach agreement P4 news Cowen and Browns crisis dash Saddam Husseins cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, was hanged yesterday. He ordered the infamous poison gas attack on the northern Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988 which killed 5,000 people P11 news Chemical Ali is executed in Iraq England striker Wayne Rooney says he wont be lured away from United despite fears the cash-strapped club will sell him on to Real Madrid or Barcelona. Im happy at United, Rooney said. I want to stay and create history P24 sport Rooney happy at United The new owners of the collapsed Waterford Crystal company are planning a new small-scale factory and visitor centre, to open later this year. The world-renowned brand is to take over former ESB offices at The Mall in Waterford city P17 Business Crystal plant to reopen Hes now more famous for his courtroom appearances than his music but were giving away tickets to hear the singer in the Grand Canal Theatre P12 Competition Win tickets to R. Kelly Forward splash: Footage of giant humpback whales breaching in the Irish Sea three miles off Hook Head, Co Wexford, provides some of the most dramatic wildlife footage ever shot here P9 Picture: Pdraig Whooley/PA WATER charges for households are expected to raise 1billion for the Government, Environment Minister John Gormley said yesterday. The Green leader said plans to intro- duce bills and install meters in 1.1mil- lion homes will be brought to the Government in the coming weeks. The roll-out to meet the cost of pro- viding clean drinking water to every home is expected to come in next year, with about 300million already ear- marked to fix the countrys water sys- tem over the next three years. Mr Gormley said the record repair bill will see burst pipes and old mains replaced as some areas are losing half of water supplies through leaks. He criticised the scrapping of water charges in 1997, calling the decision by previous governments as nonsen- sical and spineless. Water metering was essential to cre- ate a fair system which would bring in significant savings, Mr Gormley said. Figures from the Department of the Environment quoted a report for the UK Government which found average savings of 16 per cent per household after meters were installed. Parts of Dublin and Clare are still without normal supplies after the big freeze damaged ageing water pipes. Decades of under-investment in in- frastructure have left us playing catch- up, Mr Gormley said, as he called for a change to the countrys unsustaina- ble approach to drinking-water. By Ed Carty Water metering could raise 1bn new movie exclusive Win free screening tickets index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html