A roundup of today's other news stories in brief
Gaeltacht business park turned down
An Bord Pleanála has turned down plans by Udarás na Gaeltachta for a business park near the Gaeltacht village of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in west Kerry, writes Anne Lucey.
The plans were accompanied by a proposal by the local development agency, Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne, for a building to house a third-level Irish language academy to be run by NUI Galway.
The development agency had also applied for offices and buildings to house their new headquarters at the park.
All three developments were granted permission last year by Kerry County Council despite reservations by the council's roads department.
In its decision, An Bord Pleanála said the siting of the business park would be disorderly and would set an undesirable precedent.
Man questioned on woman's death
Gardaí were continuing to question a man late last night about the killing of a 30-year-old mother of three whose body was found with stab wounds in a flat in Clonakilty in west Cork last week.
Dispute vote at Cork meat plant
Workers at Breeo Foods' Galtee Meats plant in Mitchelstown voted overwhelmingly yesterday for industrial action in a dispute with management over the transfer of 10 workers from the plant to another Breeo Foods operations in the town, writes Barry Roche.
Workers voted by 93 votes to one for industrial action and their union, Siptu, will today serve two weeks' notice of the industrial action.
According to John Cooney of Siptu, the dispute centres on the company's failure to abide by an agreement to give two months notice to staff regarding the closure of the sausage processing section of Galtee Meats employing 24 people and the outsourcing of processing.
A spokesman for Breeo Foods expressed disappointment that workers at the plant were threatening to enage in industrial action "when alternative work is available at the same rates of pay as applied last week when the workers were working in the sausage section".
Man tells of attack with gun
A man has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court that he had "no shadow of a doubt" that the man who came at him with a sawn-off shotgun while he was working at the Leisureplex in Blanchardstown, Dublin, was trying to murder him.
Darren Larkin (23), of no fixed address, denies attempting to murder Akef Alquasar, a Jordanian, on February 20th, 2006.
Lecture on printed material
A talk on the printed material of the Irish State will be delivered by Dr Ciarán Swan at the National Print Museum, Beggars Bush, Dublin at 7.30pm this evening.
Dr Swan, of the National College of Art and Design, will deal with the development of printed material, including stamps, currency and booklets, from 1922 onwards.