Six One News
3 November 2009

David Murphy, Business Editor, reports that Exchequer returns show the tax take to the end of October is €1bn behind the target set in April

Sean Whelan, Europe Editor, reports that the European Commission says the EU's combined economy is starting to grow again

Ingrid Miley, Industry & Employment Correspondent, reports that the Taoiseach has said there needs to be signs of progress in talks with the public sector unions

Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, reports that an armed gang is being sought after a bank official's wife was held hostage during an attempted bank raid

Supt John Gilligan, Garda Press Office, says that strategies exist to combat this sort of incident

Jim Fahy, Western Editor, reports that An Bord Pleanála has asked Shell Ireland to address concerns it has about the safety of the Corrib Gas pipeline

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Tony Connelly, Europe Correspondent, reports that the Czech Republic eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus has signed the Lisbon Treaty

Orla O'Donnell, Legal Affairs Correspondent, reports that Portmarnock Golf Club can continue to restrict its membership to men, following a Supreme Court ruling today

Richard Dowling, North-East Correspondent, reports that ten patients in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda have the C Difficile infection

Fergal Bowers, Health Correspondent, reports that The Irish College of GPs has advised that people should not take aspirin daily, on their own initiative

Will Goodbody reports that residents of the redeveloped Fatima & Herberton areas of Dublin have appealed to Govt not to cut funding to agencies operating there

Brian O'Connell, London Editor, reports that police in Britain have published an internet message aimed at people who may know what happened to Madeleine McCann

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Joe Little, Religious & Social Affairs Correspondent, reports that the Garda Commissioner has been urged to tackle intimidation by illegal moneylenders

Dublin firm Sysnet to create 60 jobs

Irish singer dies in India car crash

IFA call for Government investment

Jennie O'Sullivan reports that the City of Cork is one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit in 2010, according to the backpackers' bible Lonely Planet

Philip Bromwell reports that a lifelong love of skateboarding has inspired an exhibition which opens in Dublin this evening

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