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BY ALAN OSBORN
ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONE consequence of the growing sophistication of anti-money laundering procedures at the major banks in Europe in recent years is that criminals have turned increasingly to less regulated channels such as bureaux de change and money service businesses to hide criminal proceeds.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has accepting Xenohaliotis californiensis is “endemic in existing H. tuberculata [abalone] farms in Ireland.”

This follows four outbreaks last year affecting 344,000 abalone in counties Cork, Galway and Kerry and a new infestation at a National University of Ireland, Galway, marine institute.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has received the latest in a long string of censures from the European Court of Justice for failing to comply with European Union (EU) environmental legislation. In this instance Dublin was condemned for not implementing directive 2003/4/EC guaranteeing public access to environmental information, which was supposed to have been written onto its statute book by February 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREIGHT Transport Association (FTA) has called for British hauliers to adopt the same road worthiness standards abroad than at home, after a European Commission statistical report indicated a flawed safety record driving in other European Union (EU) countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE IRISH government has resigned itself to accepting the presence of Xenohaliotis californiensis in Ireland’s abalone farms, which it reported last year to the Aquatic Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties). Ireland’s ministry of agriculture and food then confirmed four outbreaks affecting 344,000 abalone in counties Cork, Galway and Kerry.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW fishing access deal has been negotiated between the European Commission and the Ivory Coast. Running six years from this June, the agreement is designed to replace an existing deal in place since 1990. The new deal will focus entirely on tuna, wIth European Union (EU) fishing rights being cut from an existing 9,000 to 7,000 tonnes per year, to be exploited by 25 seiners and 15 surface long liners, (down from 34 and up from 11 respectively under the existing system).The…

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.…