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Limerick: S.Moynihan,A.McNamara,R.Collins,J.Garvey,,G.McNamara,A.Sheehan(Capt.),
M.Dooley, V.Sheehan, D.Fitzpatrick, E.O’Brien, M.Nash, N.Mulcahy, M.Keating, M.Kelly,O.Curtin.

Manager: Ciaran Carey.

Limerick 1-10 Cork 2-7

In an exciting encounter today at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Limerick and Cork will have to meet again to decide the winners of the Gala All Ireland Championship 2007.A last gasp point ensured Limerick a replay.
This is the B Camogie Championship final. Limerick has made great strides recently since former intercounty player Ciaran Carey became their manager. Limerick won the Division 1B National League title earlier this year. Limerick will now be playing in the top flight next term.There have been impressive displays already from youngsters Sile Moynihan,Aideen McNamara,Janet Garvey and Niamh Mulcahy .Sisters Aoife and Vera Sheehan ,Meadhbh Nash,Marie Keating and Rose Collins are the more experience players in the current squad.Exciting times ahead for the Limerick girls.

Behold! The Shannon-Heathrow Hall of Shame

Where applicable, the politicians name will be linked to their contact information.

Michael Creed. (Fine Gael) Cork North West. Name absent from list of voters.

Michael D’Arcy (Fine Gael) Wexford. Name absent from list of voters.

Damien English (Fine Gael) Meath West. Name absent from list of voters

Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) Roscommon/South Leitrim. Name absent from list of voters.

Charles Flanegan (Fine Gael) Laois Offally. Name absent from list of voters.

Paul Kehoe (Fine Gael) Wexford. Name absent from list of voters.

Joe McHugh (Fine Gael) Donegal North East. Name absent from list of voters.

Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael) Dublin West. Name absent from list of voters.

Jack Wall (Labour Party) Kildare South. Name absent from list of voters.

Unsurprisingly, members of the Green Party and the only PD deputy present Noel Greelish voted with the Government.

Here is a list of Independents, who either voted in favour of the Government’s abandonment of Shannon, or who did not vote.

Beverly Flynn (Mayo) Voted with the Government.

Jackie Healy-Rae (Kerry South) Name absent from list of voters.

Michael Lowry (Tipperary South) Voted with the Government.

Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central) Voted with the Government

Dan Sullivan has requested that local government TDs who voted in favour of the motion also have3 their names added to the list, so here goes.

Where applicable, links to contact information for each local TD chave been added.

Niall Collins (Fianna Fail) Limerick West. Voted in Favour of Shannon Motion.

John Cregan (Fianna Fail) Limerick West. Voted in Favour of Shannon motion.

Timmy Dooley (Clare) Voted in favour of Shannon Motion.

Frank Fahey (Fianna Fail) Galway West. Voted in favour of Government motion.

Maire Hoctor (Fianna Fail) Tipperary North. Voted in favour of Government motion

Tony Killeen (Fianna Fail) Clare. Voted in favour of government motion.

Michael Kitt (Fianna Fail) Galway East. Name absent from list of voters.

Tom McElistrim (Fianna Fail) Kerry North. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

Mattie McGrath (Fianna Fail) Tipperary South. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail) Tipperary South. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

Eamon O’Cuiv (Fianna Fail) Galway West. Voted in favour of Government Motion

Willie O’Dea (Fianna Fail) Limerick East. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

John O’Donoghue (Fianna Fail) Kerry South. Name absent from list of voters.

Update John O’Donoghue is not entitled to vote as he is the Ceann Comhairle, and only casts a vote when the voting is tied, which, it was not on this occasion.

Peter Power (Fianna Fail) Limerick East. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

Noel Treacy (Fianna Fail) Galway East. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

Noel Greelish (Progressive Democrats) Galway West. Voted in favour of Government Motion.

The Hunt Museum was today formally cleared of handling art stolen from the Jews by Nazis.

The Nazi-hunting group, the Simon Wesenthall foundation had made claims that the late John and Gertrude Hunt, founders of the Hunt Museum, were Nazi spies and were engaged in the traffiking of stolen artwork.

However, a report, which is the culmination of a three year long investigation, not only clears the Hunts of any wrong doing, also criticised the Wesenthall foundation for making claims based on threadbare evidence.

The report was written by renowned UK based expert Lynn Nicholas, who has written books such as “The Rape of Europe” was published today by the Royal Irish Acadamy.

The wesenthall foundation were also criticised for making baseless personally abusive statements against the Hunts.

The sole basis for the claim by the Wesenthall foundation was a single file on Gertrude Hunt, which the Irish Army had collated on her. Such files were kept on all Germans in Ireland during World War II and are accessible by the public now.

The file, which was the only document in the posession of the Wesenthal foundation, contained absolutely no evidence that the Hunts had purchased any art which had been stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims.

The full story on this can be found here.

The Nazis pilfered the possessions, including art, from the six million Jews who lost their lives during the holocaust. The fact that none of it ended up in the wrongful possession of John and Gertrude Hunt comes too late for their son John Jr., who spent the last year of his life trying to clear his parents’ name.

Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey made quips about shooting during the speech of a Midwestern TD’s submission in the debate on Shannon Airport yesterday in Leinster House.

Sinn Fein Kerry TD Martin Ferris had just finnished his contribution when Minister Dempsey said, “At least we did not blow them up or shoot them.”

Now as unlikely as I am to vote for Sinn Fein, and as much as i personally dislike Martin Ferris in particular. The unwelcome truth of the matter here is that several thousand people got up off their airses one sunny day in May and put a number one beside his name. Therefore he is representing the people who voted for him.

For a party like Fianna Fail, who on the previous day lauded the Northern Ireland Peace Process as one of the things which should be remembered when deciding whether or not the house had confidence in Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach, is completely hypocritical.

It shows two things lacking in both Minister Dempsey’s position on the privatisation of Aer Lingus and his character in general.

Firstly, he was not able to counter the arguement that the Government should have seen this coming (given the wording of the articles of association, maybe they did) that he had to resort to irrelevancies.

Dempsey’s conduct was reminiscent of what might have been seen in the days when, while the Northern Ireland assembly were dealing with issues of education and other bread and butter stuff, the likes of the DUP were engaged in obstructionism.

Now while Ferris’ position on matters relating to the conduct of the Provisional IRA, particularly his views on the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe should not be forgotten or ignored. There is a time and a place for it.

If Minister Dempsey wanted to engage Martin Ferris on his position in relation to bombs and guns, then he should have submitted his own motion to the house.

Fianna Fail were themselves accused of being involved in running guns to the IRA in the 1970s, which lead to Charles Haughey, a man later elected as leader of the same party, being scandalised. Yet you don’t hear much mention of it any time a Fianna Fail TD stands up to make a speech.

I do want to see acts of violence not already dealt with, to be dealt with. I want to see the two on-the-runs suspected of being involved in the killing of Jerry McCabe brought before a judge. I want to see those that are in prison to serve their required sentences. However, there is a time and a place for discussion on the IRA and related matters, and this was not it.

Sentencing in the case against Michael Collins, the former Limerick West Fianna Fail TD who was found guilty of obtaining a tax clearance certificate under false pretences in 2002, is imminent.

Sentencing was adjourned until after lunch after the jury of seven men and five women spent an hour deliberating before returning the guilty verdict.

Sentencing has been adjourned in this case until October 9th. Collins made no comment to the media as he left the Circuit Criminal Court this afternoon.

The opening of Limerick’s Deaf Community Centre coincided with Sign Language Awareness Week. Speakers included Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea and Chairman of the Irish Deaf Association John Bosco Conama.

The new centre is located at 96A O’Connell Street, Limerick, next to the Ulster Bank

Collette will no doubt have photos later today.