News Tuesday, January 26, 2010 D Brothers Tim and Sean Dunleavy won the award for Best Craftmanship at Showcase. Irelands creative expo, run by the Crafts Council, is in the RDS until tomorrow Abandoned baby couple charged A COUPLE appeared in a court in the UK yesterday charged with abducting an eight-month-old boy who was found in Carlow last Friday. The 21-year- old woman and 24-year- old man allegedly took the baby from the home of his legal guardian on Thursday and brought him to Ireland, leaving him on the steps of the towns cathedral, with a note giving his name and date of birth. Two men armed with a metal bar robbed an Ulster Bank in Dublin city centre yesterday. The pair entered the Dame Street branch around 10am and threatened staff before demanding cash. They fled on foot dropping wads of cash as they escaped. Detectives at Pearse Street said it was not known how much money the pair got away with. Ulster Bank held up in Dublin and finally... SwiSS police say a robbers attempt to loot the Zurich city treasury was foiled by officials who simply hit a button and locked him in. The hooded man was threatening staff and demanding cash with what looked like a firearm. Two men have been arrested over the attempted murder of a policeman in northern ireland. Constable Peadar Heffron lost a leg after a bomb exploded under his car in Randalstown, Co Antrim. Pc Heffron, 33, who only recently regained consciousness after the January 8 bombing, was attacked by republicans opposed to the peace process. Men arrested for NI bombing only 5,000 of the 91,000 houses believed to have high levels of the radioactive gas, radon, have been identified. Dr Ann mcGarry from the Radiological Protection institute of ireland urged people living in areas with the highest rates of the gas, linked to up to 200 lung cancer deaths each year in ireland, to take the matter seriously. Most unaware of cancer gas IFI opens poll on favourite film TO celebrate its redevelopment, the Irish Film Institute is taking votes on the greatest film in its history. By logging on to www.ifi.ie/vote, the public can vote for their favourite from a list of 17 films from each year of the IFIs existence, including Neil Jordans The Crying Game (pictured). Airport road open through T2 A NEW access road at Dublin airport is set to open today that will take motorists through the centre of the soon-to-be- opened Terminal 2. Passengers who are being dropped off at the airport by car will now have to access the terminal by the new road. Passengers using the short-term car park and those arriving by taxi, bus and coach will continue to use the existing road. homedigest Hippie Chicks: Jenny Lee and Georgia get all 70s disco to launch Fashion Rocks at the Wright Venue in Swords, a fashion show set to live rock music from bands including Von Shakes, The Red Labels and Diablo, all taking place from 8pm on Sunday January 31. Tickets, in aid of Irish Autism Action and the Haiti Appeal, are 20 Cowen and Brown in Stormont crisis talks Taoiseach Brian cowen and Brit- ish prime minister Gordon Brown arrived in Northern ireland last night to lead emergency talks aimed at sav- ing stormonts crisis-hit power-shar- ing government. The dramatic intervention by the British and irish leaders was an- nounced yesterday after a last-ditch attempt by sinn Fin and the DUP failed to find agreement over the dev- olution of policing powers. There are fears republicans could collapse the fragile institutions, forc- ing a snap assembly election. That could happen if the DUP does not agree to a swift transfer of law and order responsibilities from London. The two government heads are to meet both parties at hillsborough castle in co Down today. We believe the problems that exist in devolving policing and justice are soluble prob- By Steven McCaffery We can assist in the completion of these talks lems, Mr Brown said. We believe we can assist in the completion of these talks. The two premiers arrived in hillsbor- ough in an 11-vehicle cavalcade es- corted by a fleet of police outriders. Their arrival came hours after a crunch meeting between DUP leader Peter Robinson and sinn Fin Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness in stormont which lasted little more than half an hour and ended without resolution. earlier, Mr McGuinness accused the DUP of failing to fulfil its obliga- tions in regard to policing and jus- tice. The senior republican claimed the DUP had yet to agree to devolving law and order powers to stormont. Accused Tipperary hotel rapist pleads not guilty a MaN has gone on trial accused of raping a woman in a Tipperary hotel as her boyfriend slept beside her. The 27- year-old has pleaded not guilty to the rape of the woman on July 7, 2008 after she attended a wedding at the hotel. The court heard how the 34-year-old woman initially thought the accused was her boyfriend but realised it was someone else when she felt her partner moving beside her. her boyfriend woke up, hit the accused and then threw him out of the room. The woman had met the accused as they were walking around the hotel, the central criminal court was told, and because he was locked out of his room, she suggested he use a spare bed in an adjoining room. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html