A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Dublin councillors urged to allow eight-storey inner city buildings
Dublin Chamber of Commerce is appealing to city councillors not to introduce restrictive caps on building heights under the new city development plan which is due to be adopted tonight.
The body is urging councillors to allow building heights of up to eight storeys in the low-rise inner city areas. It is likely that amendments to the development plan agreed by councillors will put office blocks at a maximum of seven storeys and apartments at up to six storeys in these areas.
While the number of vacant office buildings in the city had more than doubled in the last two years, there were few larger office blocks available, chief executive Gina Quin said.
Two break in to Central Bank
Two men who were arrested in relation to a break-in at the Central Bank's premises at Spencer Dock in Dublin at the weekend have been charged with attempted burglary.
Gardaí arrested the men, aged 22 and 52, at the scene of the break-in.
It is thought the men did not realise the premises were connected to the Central Bank.
Alarm systems were activated and security staff alerted gardaí.
Press seminar on media and children
A seminar on the impact of media on children is to be held by the Press Council of Ireland in Dublin on December 6th.
It will be addressed by Prof Magne Raundalen from the Centre for Crisis Psychology in Bergen, Norway. He will deliver a paper, Children and the Newspaper – Not Seen, nor Heard, but Scared.
Prof Raundalen is president of the Norwegian Unicef committee. Emily Logan, the Ombudsman for Children, will also speak.