A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Irish NHS executive resigns
The Irishman who has been director of clinical governance of the NHS in Britain, Prof Aidan Halligan, has resigned from his post, writes Fiona Gartland.
He had been offered the position of CEO of the Health Service Executive in Ireland in September 2004, but later declined the post.
His resignation from the NHS emerged when a letter to the British chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, was leaked to the press.
Mr Halligan had criticised reforms in the British health service, saying suggestions that real reform had taken place were a deceit.
Rape trial hears of bishop's statement
The jury in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a Donegal priest charged with rape has been told that his then bishop had never received any complaint about the accused's conduct at the time of the alleged offences.
The 48-year-old accused has denied three charges of raping a then 13-year-old girl on dates in 1985 and one charge of indecently assaulting her in 1984.
Dr Seamus Hegarty, now Bishop of Derry, gave details in a statement to gardaí of the accused's appointment to the parish where the alleged assaults took place. Dr Hegarty told gardaí he had never received any complaint about alleged sexual misconduct by the accused while the cleric was in the parish.
Drug addict jailed for 13 years
A drug addict who had heroin worth €45,000 zipped into cuddly toys at his home, and later had another heroin cache valued at €28,392, has been jailed for 13 years in consecutive sentences.
Paul Reilly (24), Deansrath Road, Clondalkin, Dublin, was convicted late last year for having possession of the heroin in the toys. Judge Yvonne Murphy imposed a three-year sentence for that offence.
Judge Desmond Hogan later imposed a 10-year consecutive sentence on Reilly for having heroin valued €28,392 on January 16th, 2004, while on bail in relation to the earlier offence. Judge Hogan suspended the final four years on strict conditions.
Waiter tells of tips system at hotel
A former waiter with Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge in Dublin told the High Court the system used to distribute the service charge to casual staff resulted in a "dramatic" reduction in his pay packet.
Timothy Fitzmaurice (61) said that in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, where he was a permanent waiter for 10 years from 1962, his basic pay for a 40-hour week would be about £2, but in the same week the service charge was worth £32 to him. The court heard a head waiter in banqueting in Jury's could get up to 20 times more money than a casual waiter. Mr Fitzmaurice is a plaintiff in a case against Jury's Hotel group taken by 35 others.