A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Measures to protect euro against fakes
Financial institutions and cash-in-transit companies will assume more responsibility for checking for damaged and counterfeit bank notes following the implementation of new measures set out by the European Central Bank (ECB).
Up until now the Irish Central Bank has been responsible for ridding cash in circulation of damaged and counterfeit notes. However, new ECB measures were officially implemented here yesterday.
They require financial institutions and companies in the cash in transit and bureau de change sectors to check their stocks of cash for counterfeit or damaged notes.
Cash changing hands over the counter must be fully checked by staff.
Professor died after hospital stay
A university professor died from a brain haemorrhage the day after he was discharged from hospital where he had been started on the anti-clotting medication warfarin.
Prof Breandán Ó Buachalla (74) of Cnoc na Sí, An Charraig Dhubh, Baile Átha Cliath, was rushed by ambulance to St Vincent’s Hospital on May 20th, 2010, after his wife was unable to wake him.
Prof Ó Buachalla, who was a professor of Irish at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in the US, died at the hospital later that day. Dr Brian Farrell said it looked like the induction of warfarin was the risk factor. He adjourned the inquest to February in order to call a number of doctors to give evidence.
Jury sent home in murder trial
The jury in the case of a Polish man on trial for the murder of a 20-year-old outside a Galway nightclub, will begin its second day of deliberations at the Central Criminal Court today. The five men and seven women were sent home for the night yesterday evening, after failing to reach a verdict in the case of Alexsander Nadowdny, who’s accused of murdering Kieran Cunningham in June 2009.
Mr Cunningham (20), was just across the road from his group of friends, when he was stabbed three times, “swiftly expertly and completely silently”, the jury heard.
Mr Nadowdny, formerly of Remore Park in Galway, has denied murdering Mr Cunningham.