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Co Carlow car crash victim named
Gardaí last night named the 21-year-old Carlow man who became the sixth person to die on Irish roads since last Saturday, writes Michael Parsons.
John Curran of St Brigid's Crescent, Bagenalstown, died late on Sunday night when the car in which he was a passenger crashed into a wall outside the village of Borris on the Carlow-Kilkenny border.
The driver, who is also from Bagenalstown, was taken to St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny, and was later transferred to Waterford Regional Hospital.
Inquiry into death of security guard
The British army and PSNI are investigating the death of a civilian security guard in an east Belfast army barracks on Sunday night. The incident happened at the Moscow camp barracks in the Airport Road area. The man, whose name has yet to be officially released, died after being taken to hospital.
Luas services disrupted by fault
Rush-hour Luas services on the Dublin Green line were disrupted for over an hour yesterday evening when a tram developed a technical fault.
The tram broke down on Harcourt Street at 6.20pm, forcing hundreds of commuters on to other modes of transport. Services ran between Sandyford and Beechwood while the fault was being repaired.
Fisheries boards criticise their end
Heads of the seven regional fisheries boards have criticised what they term a "headlong rush" towards their abolition.
The chairpersons of the boards have written to the Minister for the Marine and his new Minister of State John Browne over plans to subsume the boards into a new national inland fisheries authority.
The existing boards have served the State well and should be retained in accordance with Government policy on decentralisation, the chairpersons said in a statement issued yesterday.
Plans to re-organise the fisheries boards were announced last November by the former minister of state Pat "the Cope" Gallagher who was moved in last week's reshuffle of junior Ministers.
The group also criticised the consultants review which recommended the dismantling of the regional board structure, saying it was very poor in its reasoning and completely unclear on the future model for inland fisheries.
"The report makes broad allegations in respect of the current structure, but these are unsubstantiated and no reasons are given as to why a central authority would do the job more efficiently or effectively," according to the statement.
While recommending the State's withdrawal from the management and development of fisheries, the review sets out no proper proposals for safeguarding these valuable assets, it is also claimed.
False fire alarm at Shannon airport
Passengers and staff were evacuated from the main terminal building at Shannon airport yesterday afternoon following what was later confirmed as a false alarm.
The airport's alarm system was triggered at around 4.15pm when someone apparently pressed an emergency button.
An airport spokeswoman confirmed that everything was back to normal after about 10 minutes and operations at the airport were not affected.
RNLI saved over 1,160 lives in 2005
The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) saved more than 1,160 lives at sea and on inland waterways in 2005, according to its annual rescue statistics.
Volunteer RNLI crews launched 916 times last year from 43 stations around the island, rescuing an average of 22 people each week.