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Mar 13th, 2008

PRESS DIGEST

13 march

DUBLIN, March 13 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland’s newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
- The UNHCR is seeking substantial amendment of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill currently before the Oireachtas.
- The Garda Ombudsman Commission has asked the government to give it the power to opt out of fully investigating some of the public’s complaints against gardai, The Irish Times has learned.
- Permanent tsb has suspended its 100 percent mortgages and cut the maximum loan it will offer on investment properties to 80 percent of the property’s value from 90 percent due to the slowdown in the housing market.
- Gardai have recommended that criminal charges be brought against several people in connection with the death of the model Katy French. Continued…

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13 Responses to “PRESS DIGEST”

  1. # Justin on 16 Mar 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Analytics is crap- it only tracks about 1/5 of my traffic

  2. # Briony on 16 Mar 2008 at 4:51 pm

    C’mon, I don’t have time to read the three reviews pointed at the article. What is the “modestly improved Pocket Internet Explorer” they’re talking about? Better rendering? Better javascript compatibility?

  3. # Colbert on 16 Mar 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Jesus, imagine the scene right now in the White House: Bush is face down drunk in the oval office, Cheney is probably dead, Laura has moved with the girls to a safe-house down in Paraguay or wherever, the Attorney General is surfing the internet and trying to look busy, Gates has a gun in his mouth and 10 to 20 members of the Heritage foundation are having a man-boy orgy in the Lincoln bedroom.Interesting times.

  4. # Quin on 16 Mar 2008 at 6:32 pm

    They don’t want Obama to be able to say, “I have news for John McCain, the Pentagon itself confirms that there was no Al-Qaida in Iraq before we invaded”.

  5. # Thurstan on 16 Mar 2008 at 7:22 pm

    ABC had a link to it here: http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdfIt’s 11+ megs. But err, it did find pre-war links to Al-qaeda (or is it Al-qaida? What spelling is proper?)Anyways, look closely at PDF pages 33-35, you’ll note that while Saddam’s regime didn’t fund al-qaeda directly, they did fund several other groups that were known allies. Indeed, one of them, Egyptian Islamic Jihad eventually merged with Al-qaeda. It was headed by Al-Zawahari.I posted a few more comments here: http://reddit.com/info/6c2ko/comments/

  6. # Nina on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:13 pm

    I use Google Analytics as well, but I like this because it updates live, instead of waiting 24 hours.

  7. # Martina on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:03 pm

    well, what does the report say then?Any summaries available?

  8. # Wil on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:54 pm

    If the numbers workout this could help a lot in many ways.

  9. # Sylvana on 16 Mar 2008 at 10:45 pm

    CNN, NYT AND fox news are [insert something flammatory here]

  10. # Lavena on 16 Mar 2008 at 11:35 pm

    WHY IT IS THE ACTUAL REPORT IN QUESTION - WITH ONLY 5 UPMODS.Dare I suggest upmod that file and save it to your hard drive?I dare.

  11. # Denise on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:26 am

    poink ooagh

  12. # Lockie on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:16 am

    CNN, NYT AND fox news are [a bag of dog shit on my porch]