D Tuesday, January 26, 2010 News Work-to-rule step up threatened over cuts UNIONS last night threatened to intensify a work-to-rule over the Governments 1billion spending cuts despite pleas for talks to limit the damaging row. In a hard-line response, the four main teaching unions The Irish National Teachers Organisation, Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, Teachers Union of Ireland and Irish Federation of University Teachers warned they were prepared to deepen the dispute over the next few weeks. A spokesman said: Members are extremely angry and frustrated at the effect of the two pay cuts and the unions are determined to respond. The work-to-rule involves teachers sticking rigidly to their job descriptions and not attending meetings after school. Industrial relations trouble-shooters from the Labour Relations Commission are on stand-by to intervene in the work- to-rule that is expected to involve 300,000 public sector workers. Lillis at odds with States pathologist EAMONN LiLLis told his own murder trial yesterday he disagrees with the evi- dence of the Deputy state Pathologist, who said his wife sustained facial inju- ries while lying face down on the ground. He claimed the abrasion on his wifes chin was caused by him pushing her arm over her head as she wielded a brick, which caught her on the chin. He told the Central Criminal Court the three significant injuries to her head oc- curred when he pushed her head against a window, when she slipped and fell, and when the pair of them fell together in a tussle on the patio outside their home. Under cross-examination, the 52-year- old advertising producer offered an ex- planation for Celine Cawleys injuries. He also said a note found in his bed- room was based on a fictional story he was writing. she will never share your bed. You will never take her to France. The only way to be with her is to stay here, it read. Think of the positives of developing a new relationship. she will get that wed- ding dress. she will marry Keith next June. she will send out the invitations in January. Lillis said the references were about three characters and not him. Prosecutor Mary Ellen Ring said Ms Cawleys head injuries were caused by use of a brick held by you. she said Lillis lied to firemen, ambu- lance crew, garda, his family, his daugh- ter and his friends. And continued to lie and concealed the reason for the lie, and you hid your clothes all because you had taken up a brick and hit her not once, not twice, but three times, causing three lacerations, two to the back of the head and consist- ent with a brick and not a window edge. she concluded these injuries caused Ms Cawleys death while her husband was upstairs trying to cover up your ac- tions. Thats not true, he replied. Lillis has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife at their home at Windgate Road, in Howth, on December 15, 2008. The trial continues. By Ross McDonagh Disagreed with evidence: Lillis A sculpture is exhibited in Cumnock, Australia as part of the Animals On Bikes art project, which is the longest sculpture installation in the world running for 120km through New South Wales Picture: Getty Getting stuck in Men spending 15 years unwell IRISH people are getting sick for longer despite improved life expectancy, according to new research. The average time both men and women are ill has risen about a half, according to the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland. A cross- border study found in 1999 men in the Republic could expect to be unwell an average of ten years, but by 2007 that figure jumped to almost 15. The amount of time women had ill- health jumped from just over 11 years to almost 17. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html