Conference tallis::celt

1377.0. "Third day of whats News in Ireland" by ESSB::PBUTLER () Thu May 05 1994 09:32

For the third and final day...................

This is what was considered newsworthy in the Republic of Ireland today.

The sequence of articles again reflects their relative ranking on the front 
page of todays Irish Times newspaper. 

"Hitch fails to halt PLO-Israeli agreement".
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Report on signing of accord betwen Yasser Arrafat and Yizhak Rabin.

Further suspensions expected in GRA".
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Annual Garda (Irish Police) Repesentative Associations conference abandoned
yesterday when supporters of four suspended members of the central executive 
committee disrupted proceedings. The four were suspsneded by the executive 
comittee because they had taken an unsucessfull legal action in the courts over 
the way the executive committee had carried out a ballot on pensionability of
unsociable working hours. The suspensed members say its a matter of democracy
and negotiating for adequate pay for the tough job they do. The GRA General 
Secretary says it just a personality clash and that the GRA got the best pay
deal from the Government that could have been achieved. 
....Of Celtic interest might be the role/ social position of the police.

"350 orphans escorted by troops from Rwanda as death toll rises".
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More coverage of the violence in Rwanda and the exodus of Tutsis refugees.

"Bid for Trustee Savings Bank under consideration by Ahern".
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Fianna Fail Minister for Finance Bertie Ahern tells Dail (Irish Parliment)
that we intends to fully consider the offer from the National Australias wholly
owned subsidiary National Irish Bank. Ahern refused to disclose what the
Trustee of the TSB had recommended on the basis it was confidential. Issue
likely to put strain on Coalition between Fianna Fail and Labour Party (see
yesterday's comments by Labour Party Leader Dick Spring.)