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Tánaiste calls for Syria to be referred to International Criminal Court

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, says a letter drafted by himself and other foreign ministers makes it clear that the gravest of crimes will eventually be punished

Union urges graduate nurses not to apply for 1,000 positions

Liam Doran, General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation: Graduate nurses should boycott the 1,000 graduate positions on offer from the HSE from today

HSE defends new nursing jobs

Barry O'Brien, HSE Director of Human Resources: graduate nurses can apply for 1,000 two-year contracts from today

What have the abortion hearings achieved?

Jerry Buttimer, Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central and chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, looks back on three days of hearings

Criticisim of third-level approach to science

Dr Ronan McNulty, UCD School of Physics, says we need more funding for open-ended research if Ireland is to develop world class scientists

How we can learn from the Young Scientists Exhibition

Katie Pierce O'Shea, former winner of the BT Young Scientist Business Boot Camp, and Sean Sherlock, Minister of State with responsibility for Research and Innovation, discuss the benefits of the exhibition

Taoiseach in Cyprus for EU talks

Paul Cunningham, RTÉ Europe Correspondent, reports that the meeting of EPP leaders in Cyprus today is expected to be dominated by discussions on the EU's budget

24 hours to produce, write and stage six plays

Cian McCormack reports that the plays will be staged to raise money for the Dublin Youth Theatre

No end in sight for Australian fires

Nick Moir, Sydney Morning Herald photographer, reports on the extreme heat and bush fires raging in Australia

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