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BY SYMON ROSS

IRELAND’S largest bank Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has been accused of major accounting deficiencies by its former chief internal auditor, who has also attached the performance of the Irish Financial Regulator. In testimony to the Oireachtas [Irish parliament] joint committee on economic regulatory affairs this week (NOTE – TUESDAY) Eugene McErlean – the AIB group internal auditor from 1997 to 2002 – alleged years of overcharging of customers by managers under pressure to meet targets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

DOGS may provide some answers to the mystery of genetic disorders in people through a new European Union (EU) project called LUPA that will try to pinpoint genetic disorders in purebred canines.

The 12 EU countries involved in the scheme (including Britain – where the University of Cambridge and others are participating) will collect 10,000 DNA samples from pedigree dogs that are either healthy or suffering from certain diseases.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

IT is one of nursing’s unlikelier medical developments, but those often pampered pedigree dogs that make an exhibition of themselves at Crufts may actually be a lynchpin to fighting genetic diseases in humans.

Veterinary clinics from 12 European countries will collect 10,000 DNA samples from a large cohort of dogs either healthy or suffering from a range of 18 defined diseases of relevance to human health such as cancer, heart disease and epilepsy.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

DOGS may provide some answers to the mystery of genetic illnesses in people through a new European Union (EU) project called LUPA that will try to pinpoint such disorders in canines. The work could prove to be valuable as humans share many of the same diseases.…

By Monica Dobie

Universities examining pedigree dogs may provide some answers to the mystery of genetic illnesses in people through a new European Union (EU)-funded project called LUPA. It will try to pinpoint such disorders in pure bred canines. The work could prove to be valuable as humans share many of the same diseases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST major effort to limit the overexploitation of western and central Pacific yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks has been made. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has approved a 30% reduction over three years of bigeye tuna catches and also a two month ban on floating platforms used to attract both species, which will be extended to three months in 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; ANDREW CAVE, in Oxford; and SYMON ROSS, in Belfast

IT is a tough time in the European petrol retail market at present. High prices last year have been followed by a global recession. It is no wonder fuel sales are depressed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered European Union (EU)-funded emergency storage of up to 30,000 tonnes of healthy Irish pigmeat, following a collapse in demand caused by the country’s dioxin contamination crisis. Brussels will pay for the meat to be stored for up to six months – long enough it hopes for memories of the scandal to fade and Irish pigmeat prices to recover.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GREEK cheese industry will receive Euro 2.6 million in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years, while the Irish meat sector – under pressure from the dioxin poisoning crisis – receives just Euro 234,000. Other winners included Italian meat producers, with Euro 1.9 million; and Bulgarian dairy producers who scored around Euro 1 million

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