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A judge maintained his consistency of opposition against the zero-tolerance policy of local retailers for prosecuting minor shoplifters when he ordered the presence of a third store manager this week (July 23) to explain this.

FORMER NAZIS and Nazi collaborators resident in Ireland are being taken out one by one by an enigmatic hit squad, but this is a only a warning to the man they are really after - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny.

Last September I wrote a number of Diary entries on the wonderful reception that Galway extended to the survivors of the SS Athenia, torpedoed off the Donegal coast on September 3 1939, the very first day of the war. The ship was sunk by Fritz Julius Lemp, the commander of the U-30. The Athenia was obviously a passenger boat on its way with refugees from Europe to Canada. This wasn’t the start to the war that the German government wanted. Initially it denied that any of its submarines sank the Athenia, and suggested that it was sunk by the British on orders from Winston Churchill in the hope of getting America into the war.

With more and more businesses going to the wall and many more expected to close their doors or go into receivership as the new year progresses after the challenging Christmas 2010 trading period, advice from the experts in recent times suggest that Irish people will either have to go abroad, take their business abroad or set up on-line, in order to succeed.

With more and more businesses going to the wall and many more expected to close their doors or go into receivership as the new year progresses after the challenging Christmas 2010 trading period, advice from the experts in recent times suggest that Irish people will either have to go abroad, take their business abroad or set up on-line, in order to succeed.

Irish business mogul Ben Dunne is calling for a total clean-out of current Oireachtas members and the replacement of existing TDs with a new batch of young people versed in business.

It’s Thursday afternoon, another paper almost published, and the eyes are getting heavy. The office is hot and stuffy, whispered conversations almost soothing. A little snooze would be nice but that’s not an option. At least not before 6pm when the home time bell chimes.