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Obama pledges action to prevent gun tragedies

Richard Downes, Washington Correspondent, reports from Newtown, Connecticut, where President Barack Obama attended a vigil for the victims of Friday's elementary school gun attack

Calls for tighter gun control in US

Niall O'Dowd, New York-based publisher of the Irish Voice, says failure to tackle the issue of gun control now will result in further terrible consequences in the US

Further post-Budget discontent within Labour

Brian Dowling, of our political staff, reports on further Labour discontent as three senators consider voting against the Social Welfare Bill

Charity head calls Budget 'Bill of Torture' for carers

Jonathan Irwin, CEO and Founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation, calls on senators to oppose the Social Welfare Bill

Ryanair steps up bid for Aer Lingus

Simon Calder, Travel Editor with the Independent in the UK, discusses the memorandum of understanding between Ryanair and IAG, which owns British Airways

Driving over the limit is still 'widely tolerated'

Conor Faughnan, AA Ireland, comments on the 13% of people in Ireland who admit to having travelled with a driver over the alcohol limit within the last year

Counting the cost of cancer

Kathleen O'Meara, Irish Cancer Society, says applications to the charity's Financial Aid Scheme have increased by 36% in the last three years

High ranking public servants claw back majority of cuts

John McGuinness, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, says the Croke Park agreement needs to be renegotiated to deal with increments to public sector staff

ANC to elect new leadership in South Africa

Fiona Forde reports from Johannesburg that ANC leader and President Jacob Zuma is under attack for economic mismanagement and alleged corruption

Depardieu says 'adieu' to high-tax France

Elaine Cobbe, CBS Correspondent in Paris, reports that actor Gérard Depardieu has sent an open letter saying he's turning in his French passport following his move to Belgium

New rules for celebrity tweeters

Adrian Weckler, Digital and Technology Editor of the Sunday Business Post, says paid tweets will have to be clearly identified as such

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