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Apparent rift between Government parties

Eamon Ryan, Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, supports colleague Dan Boyle's view, but there is no rift

Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, says the Govt must make politically unpopular decisions

Frances Fitzgerald (FG) asks in the Seanad why the Greens continue to support Fianna Fáil

David Davin-Power, Political Correspondent, says the Greens' abstentions are a political gesture at the end of term

Sentence today for 35-year-old who raped pensioner

Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, reports that Simon McGinley previously served six years for raping the 13-year-old at the centre of the C case

Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop, CEO, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, comments on the McGinley case and outlines an increase in stranger rape

Sudanese govt insists no ransom for aid workers

Rob Crilly, author of 'Saving Darfur', says there is no confirmation of a ransom demand for the two kidnapped GOAL workers

Farmers protest at Government Buildings

Joe O'Brien, Agriculture & Food Correspondent, hears from some of this morning's protesting farmers

Michael Ring, FG community, rural & Gaeltacht affairs spokesman, outlines the problems Mayo farmers face following recent floods

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