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11,000 new houses built as 300,000 still lie empty

THOUSANDS of homes across the country are still being built -- as a new report warns that 120,000 existing houses are unlikely ever to be sold.

John O'Neill: was an innocent bystander during pub row.

Dad shot dead on Costa after trying to defuse row

By Shane Hickey, Tom Worden and Bill Bond

THE family of an Irish father of two shot dead in Spain has described him as an innocent bystander who doted over his children.

Businessman denies selling €150,000 debt to crime gang

By Tim Healy

A BUSINESSMAN denied yesterday he sold on a €150,000 debt owed to him by a builder who was later allegedly advised by gardai that a criminal had been employed to collect it.

Teenager banned from contacting own mother

By Tom Tuite

A TEENAGER was yesterday ordered by a judge not to come within 500 metres of his own mother or to try and contact her in any way.

Jack 'Donie' Franklin with the monster mushroom he and his father, John, found in Knockane GAA field, Co Limerick. Picture: Press 22

All fungi and games after sports ground discovery

By Fergus Black

IS it a rather pale melon, an old football or perhaps an overgrown mushroom?

Charity says former chief was worth €120,000 salary

By Ailish O'Hora

AN Irish charity with operations in earthquake-hit Haiti has defended its decision to pay a former chief executive €120,000 last year.

Sacked postal boss asked to advertise her own job

By Stephen Maguire and Anne-Marie Walsh

AN Post has already lined up a replacement for a postmistress whose premises was raided by three gunmen. They got away with more than €100,000 in February.

Cowen to blow €100,000 on avoiding by-election date

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen is ready to blow €100,000 of taxpayers money on a High Court battle to try and stop the Government being forced to name a date for a by-election.

Entertainment

Laura quits the Big Brother house

Laura has become the third person to quit the Big Brother house.

The A-Team cast defend film from Mr T's attack

Cast defend remake against Mr T's claims that it does not live up to the original TV show.

Cohen to get bird's eye view of his hero's bedroom

WB Yeats fan Leonard Cohen has been guaranteed a direct view of the poet's bedroom when he visited a young Countess Constance Markievicz.

Two Irish contenders for Booker prize

A BOOK by an Irish novelist which mirrors the horrific Josef Fritzl abuse case has made the Booker Prize longlist for 2010.

Jane Fonda relives her protest days

Jane Fonda is reliving her youthful days as a peace protester in her role as a hippie granny in her latest film.

A whole Lottie rockin' going on

THE daughter of the late broadcaster Gerry Ryan has ruled out following her father into radio -- because his shoes are too big to fill.

€70m RTE digital TV switch gets signal to go nationwide

RTE is to build a multi-million euro infrastructure for digital television in the country, under plans that were approved yesterday.

Fingers off pulse as win surprises crowd

THE Taoiseach wasn't looking too excited by the fact that horse number 25 was travelling well in the big race of the day, the Galway Plate. It was going great guns down the back straight, tucked nicely in third place a few jumps from home.

Scorecard nightmare means more Irish agony for hapless Rock

ROBERT ROCK'S heart has been broken once again at the '3' Irish Open. But this time the unfortunate Englishman won't walk away with a €500,000 consolation prize.

'Fear of doctors' drove mum to kill eight babies

A French nurse who killed eight of her babies over a 16-year period had a fear of doctors developed after a traumatic first pregnancy.

Why do men cheat?

John and Marilyn. Bill and Monica. Charles and Camilla. Ashley and Whatshername. The extramarital affair has a long and if not quite distinguished, then at least high-profile, history. More often than not it is the men who occupy that central, adulterous role; difficult as infidelity statistics are to gauge, men repeatedly own up to committing the lion's share of affairs, outnumbering women by at least two-to-one. But why?