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Concern at plans to abolish town councils

Willie Callaghan, President of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland, says his members are considering a legal challenge to plans to abolish town councils

Minister defends plans to abolish town councils

Phil Hogan, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, defends his plan to abolish town councils. He also discusses, property tax, the home-alarms U-turn, and septic tank registration

Further violence in Belfast last night

Brendan Wright of our northern staff reports on disburbances in loyalist areas of East Belfast

Special needs children caught up in East Belfast disturbances

Willie Ward, a parish worker at St Matthew's Catholic church in east Belfast, said children with special needs and their carers had to flee the parish hall last night after trouble broke out in the area.

Music Retailer HMV to enter administration

Damian O'Reilly, Lecturer in Retail Management at DIT, assesses the impact of HMV going into administration

UN Security Council backs French military intervention in Mali

Xan Rice, journalist with the Financial Times, Lagos, analyses the French intervention in Mali

More awareness needed on dangers of carbon monoxide

Maurice Buckley, Chief Executive of the National Standards Authority of Ireland, discusses the dangers of carbon monoxide in the home.

Plans due for more gun control in the US

Richard Downes, RTE Washington Correspondent, reports that Vice President Joe Biden is due to hand over proposals from his task force on gun control today

Demand for iphone declining?

Adam Maguire of RTE News Online, believes there are a number of factors behind the drop in demand for the iphone 5.

Is the pace of climate change increasing?

Professor John Sweeney, Climatologist at NUI Maynooth, says we have eight years to avert the looming "climate-change cliff."

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