News Thursday, January 28, 2010 D citadel, but frustrations are growing at the speed of the rescue. Seven people have been killed by the mudslides. Planned licence-to-kill laws to protect homeowners against burglars would allow for the shooting of children in an orchard, a human rights watchdog has claimed. Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) director Mark Kelly told an Oireachtas committee Law Reform Commission proposals to allow people to use lethal force to defend their property, would mean there wouldnt be a safe orchard in the country. Law could give licence-to-kill Fireball case man to be sentenced A mAn is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for dousing himself in petrol and threatening to set himself alight in Tallaght Garda Station. Paul Leonard, 29, of Fettercairn Road, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to creating a substantial risk of death or serious harm by pouring petrol on himself and threatening to set himself on fire on January 6, 2009 at Tallaght Garda Station. Judge Katherine Delahunt remanded Leonard on bail until his sentence date in June. Irish tourists in Peru mudslide AT LEAST nine Irish tourists are among thousands left stranded by mudslides in Peru. More than 2,500 people were cut off in villages near the spectacular Incan Machu Picchu ruins in the Andes mountains on Sunday when mudslides Sun worshippers: Presenters Ciara Whelan and Jon Slattery get ready for sun, sea and adventure as they launch the second series of TV3s The Holiday Show, which will run for ten weeks on Thursdays at 7.30pm Picture: Marc OSullivan A PROPOSAL for a state- guaranteed scheme for loans to small businesses is being examined, Tnaiste Mary Coughlan (pictured) said. News of the initiative was welcomed by groups representing small companies, however Fine Gaels Leo Varadkar said the schemes announcement indicates a realisation Nama will not work. Business loans plan proposed Guilty plea drug user gets 2 years A DRuG addict who broke into a Donabate pub and stole stock to the value of 32,000 as well as causing damage estimated at 34,000 has been jailed for two years. Ronan moore, 33, carried out the burglary with an accomplice and garda later recovered 22 boxes of cigarettes, coins worth 500, and 47 cans of Bulmers from his home. moore, of Turvey Drive, Donabate, pleaded guilty to burglary at Keelings pub on June 23, 2008. and finally... GUTSY girls from Australias outback have started a fashion craze, by having their bottoms branded. Branding is usually limited to cattle but not in Tamworth, New South Wales where they are paying $10 for the privilege. The brands are heated and then placed on a strip of leather fixed to the ladies skin. blocked the railway, the only way in or out of the area. Helicopters are being used to airlift tourists from the famous homedigest Twins Ellen Xiaoshuang and Anna Dashuang, with Dublin Zoo tiger Kepala at the launch of the Dublin Chinese new Year Festival, which runs from February 12 to 21. This year is the Chinese year of the Tiger Picture: Conor McCabe Unite is now for industrial action on pay ONE of the countrys largest unions has swung in favour of industrial action, in the debate over public sector pay cuts. Following a series of re-ballots, trade union Unite has said 82 per cent of its members now favoured industrial ac- tion, up from 22 per cent last year. Having rejected the idea at the end of 2009, members at the Regional Fisher- ies Boards, Bord Iascaigh, University College Dublin and NUI Maynooth are all now in favour of it. These ballots show that there is a strengthening resolve within Unite against the actions of this Gov- ernment, said Unites Irish re- gional secretary, Jimmy Kelly. Meanwhile, Tnaiste Mary Coughlan has denied the Gov- ernment orchestrated a smear campaign against the public sector as she repeatedly re- fused to rule out more pay cuts for workers. Under attack from Labour leader Eamon Gilmore for encouraging a vulgar campaign of abuse to soften up public opinion for two salary reduc- tions last year, Ms Coughlan insisted the cutbacks were fair. She also stood over what was branded a sweetheart deal that will see some of the countrys most senior civil servants suffering lesser basic pay cuts than the lowest paid public workers. The Tnaiste said that decision was arrived at by the Review Body on High- er Remuneration in the Public Sector and backed by the Government. She said lower-paid public servants suffered less pro- portionately than those with much higher salaries. The salaries of 150 senior civil servants, paid up to 146,000 each, had marginal reductions, Mr Gilmore said. By Con Doherty Attack: Gilmore index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html