A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Stormont to honour Irish cricket team
Ireland's World Cup cricket heroes are to be honoured by the leaders of Stormont's powersharing government at a special reception.
First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness are to host a reception today in honour of the team which reached the final eight of the Cricket World Cup.
During the tournament in the West Indies, Ireland pulled off a shock victory over Pakistan and drew with Zimbabwe in the group stages.
The win over Pakistan was marred by the sudden death of Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer in his Jamaican hotel room.
The squad played England, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the Big Eight stage of the competition, and managed to beat Bangladesh.
Ireland also managed last month to retain the ICC Intercontinental Cup with a victory over Canada.
Talk on 1916 Proclamation
An illustrated talk on the printing of the 1916 Proclamation by Linda King (school of art, design and media, IADT, Dún Laoghaire) will be given at the National Print Museum, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin, tomorrow at 7.30pm
The talk will tell the story of the document that proclaimed Ireland a Republic and a sovereign State, and why it was necessary, who wrote it, who secretly printed it and how it was distributed.
Visitors will get an opportunity to view the newly-acquired on loan original 1916 Proclamation and a 1922 Óglaigh na hÉireann Proclamation. Admission is free.
Dublin scheme to replace pipes
Dublin City Council has begun a programme aiming to rehabilitate and replace Dublin's ageing water pipes and to conserve millions of litres of water that are being wasted on a daily basis, writes Stephen Carroll
The €118 million project is expected to take three years to complete, and it will overhaul the water mains system across the entire Dublin region. It is expected almost half of the mains in the city centre will be replaced.
Many of the water pipes serving Dublin were laid 100 years ago when the city consumed only 86 million litres of water per day. At present Dublin City Council provides 510 million litres of drinking water every day, and the aged pipe network is struggling to deal with this volume.
The project got under way yesterday on the outbound lane of Merrion Road between Sandymount Avenue and the junction with Serpentine Avenue. This part of the upgrade is expected to take six weeks.
Visit by petitions committee
The siting of a proposed incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin is one the two environmental issues to be investigated by the European Petitions Committee which is to visit Ireland
The committee, which acts on petitions from groups of people who feel frustrated by a lack of response from big government or EU agencies, is also holding an inquiry into the case of farmer Dan Brennan of Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, and the cause of "stunted cattle" on his farm.
Disruption to rail services
Commuter rail services in Dublin were disrupted yesterday morning following a crash near Lansdowne Road Dart station.
A truck crashed into the level crossing at the station at 8:40am and damaged it to the extent that it had to be manually operated, which resulted in 30-minute delays to Dart services.
An Iarnród Éireann spokesman said it apologised to customers for the delays, and was pursuing prosecution against the driver responsible for the collision.