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Yeats funeral to take place on Monday
The funeral of former Fianna Fáil senator and MEP Michael Yeats is to take place next Monday.
Mr Yeats (86), only son of the poet and playwright WB Yeats, died on Thursday in St Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire.
He joined Fianna Fáil in the early 1940s and served as a senator and as cathaoirleach of the Seanad, and was the first Irish vice-president of the European Parliament.
His funeral service will be held in St Patrick's Church, Harbour Road, Dalkey, at 11am and he will be buried at Shanganagh Cemetery.
Man drowned off Galway is named
The man who drowned when he was swept out to sea off the coast of Galway on Wednesday has been named as Máirtín Sullivan (38) from Bealadangan in Connemara.
The single man was harvesting seaweed in the afternoon at high tide when he lost his footing and was swept out to sea.
IFA criticises rise in bread prices
The president of the Irish Farmers Association has said there is no justification for bread prices to rise following wheat price increases paid to farmers.
Pádraig Walshe said: "Consumers should not be hoodwinked into believing that this price rise [by 12-16 cent] is totally to do with the price of wheat. A 25 per cent rise in wheat prices should translate into an increase of 2.3 cent, at most, in the price of a standard loaf."
He said prices paid to farmers had risen by about €15-€20 a tonne this year, having declined over the past decade.
"Despite lower prices to farmers in recent years, the benefit was clearly not passed back to consumers."
MEP urges action on 'thuggishness'
Negligent parents who fail to control their children properly and allow them to run wild should be penalised by having their child benefits withdrawn, an Irish MEP and Senator proposed yesterday.
Jim Higgins (Fine Gael) claimed the onus for correcting anti-social behaviour in children should be "placed fairly and squarely on the shoulders of parents".
He said that while he welcomed the new anti- social behaviour orders which came into force this week, he felt that parents had a major responsibility on the issue.
In a statement he added: "Vandalism, thuggishness and other anti-social behaviour by youngsters is in the vast majority of cases the result of parents abdicating their responsibility towards their offspring.
"It is wrong that parents should be allowed to draw child benefit of €150 per month per child, which is supposed to be for the purpose of looking after the welfare of their children, if at the same time they allow their children to run wild and make life a misery for the communities in which they live."
Film on Carthusian monks opens
The first film about life inside the Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the legendary Carthusian Order in the French Alps, will be shown at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin opening this evening, writes Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs correspondent.
Into Great Silence, made in 2004 by Philip Gröning, will be shown there until January 18th.
Nearly 20 years after an initial request, Gröning was granted permission to document the day-to-day routines of the reclusive order of monks, a centuries-old Roman Catholic brotherhood. He was required to live and work among the monks, filming by himself for just a few hours a day.
The resulting work is a 162-minute journey into a cloistered world of ritualistic repetition, with its promise of revelation and transcendence.