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BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE IRISH public place smoking ban has dramatically reduced air pollution in pubs according to a study from the Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society in Dublin. Dr Luke Clancy, institute director and four associates measured pollution levels of 42 Dublin pubs and health levels of 73 Dublin bar staff before the ban and one year after the ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has dropped its long-running legal action against the Irish government over its previous authorisation of drift-netting at sea, which Brussels had claimed broke the European Union (EU) habitats directive. The Commission based its case on the impact of this fishing technique on wild Atlantic salmon, sending Ireland last year a final legal warning threatening a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case, with judges potentially ordering a drift-net ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Parliamentarians have attacked widespread confiscations at European Union (EU) airports of duty-free alcohol from transit passengers over new anti-terrorist rules. Regulations say intra-EU flight passengers can only carry onboard liquids up to 100 millilitres, in sealed transparent plastic bags.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government is being threatened with potential massive daily recurring fines of Euro 1,000s for failing to comply with European Court of Justice (ECJ) rulings over European water quality standards. The European Commission has sent Dublin legal final warning letters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEPs have attacked widespread confiscations at European Union (EU) airports of duty-free perfume and cosmetics from transit passengers over new anti-terrorist rules. Regulations imposed after the UK bomb plot mean passengers can only carry onboard liquids up to 100 millilitres, in sealed transparent plastic bags.…

BY MARK ROWE
EASTERN Europe, thanks mainly to the preponderance of Soviet-era facilities and Soviet-era standards of maintenance, has long been seen as a potential weak link for the nuclear power industry in safety terms. A vast group of international experts devotes time and resources to maintaining the industry’s record and the nuclear power industry has various arrangements for cooperation among utilities and internationally, among government and United Nations nuclear agencies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EVER wonder how Steve Austin aka the Six Million Dollar Man was able to run at lightning speeds, jump at abnormal heights, see incredible distances and hear whispers from miles away without recharging his bionic batteries?

Personally, I do not recall Steve plugging himself in anywhere and while – as a TV goggling youngster in the 70s – I was too distracted by Mr Austin’s heroic feats to care where he got his electricity from, a new EU funded project prompted me to consider this mystery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced another 28 protected food products that can only be marketed in the European Union with their traditional name, if they are produced in their home region using time-honoured production methods. Newly protected products include Corsican olive oil; Flemish almond cake Geraardsbergse mattentaart; Irish Connemara ‘hill lamb’; and others: see http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/newsroom/en/252.htm…