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Memorial to Miami Showband
A memorial to the Miami Showband outside the former National Ballroom on Parnell Square North in Dublin will be unveiled today by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, writes Alison Healy.
The limestone bronze and granite piece by Donegal artist Redmond Herrity is in memory of Tony Geraghty, Fran O'Toole and Brian McCoy, who were murdered at Buskhill, Newry, Co Down, on July 31st, 1975. They were shot dead by a UVF gang as they were driving home from a dance in Banbridge.
Only Stephen Travers and Des McAlea survived.
Margaret Urwin of Justice for the Forgotten said: "This is very appropriate because it's at the old National Ballroom where they used to play."
Two held over garda shooting
Gardaí investigating the shooting of a garda at Ossory Road, Dublin, in September have arrested a man and a woman.
They were detained yesterday under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act at Mountjoy and Store Street stations.
Both are in their 20s and were arrested in Clondalkin.
Kenyan embassy opens in Dublin
More than 200 people attended an event in Dublin at the weekend to mark the opening of a Kenyan embassy at Elgin Road in Ballsbridge. It will cater to the needs of the Kenyan community here, which is estimated to number 3,000.
Award for 'Irish Times' journalist
The Irish Timesconsumer affairs correspondent Paul Cullen has been awarded a certificate of merit at the Law Society's Justice Media Awards presentation ceremony on Friday.
The award was given for his article about the pros and cons of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board in which he revealed that more than 40 per cent of assessments made by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board in the first 2½ years of its existence had been rejected by claimants.
Dearbhaill McDonald of the Irish Independentwon the national newspaper award.
Other print journalists honoured included John Burns of the Sunday Times, John O'Mahoney of the Irish Examinerand Kieron Wood of the Sunday Business Post.
RTÉ journalists Charlie Bird, Samantha Libreri and Dympna Moroney were awarded the overall news broadcast award for their series on road safety.
Barry Cummins won the broadcast court reporting award for his coverage of the inquest into the death of a baby girl, found dead in Dublin in 1973.
Amen to mark 10th anniversary
Amen, the support group for male victims of domestic violence, will mark its 10th anniversary today with a conference in Dublin.
Amen founder Mary Cleary said there was now a public awareness that men were also victims of abuse "and it is gratifying to see that this issue is now being seriously addressed by statutory bodies".
In a message to be read out at today's conference, President Mary McAleese said: "The scandal of domestic abuse is as varied and difficult as it is destructive of families and I commend the extraordinary valuable work done by Amen over the past decade".