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RTÉ employees tostrike for pensionTHE RTÉ Trade Union Group hasconfirmed the two largest unions,Siptu and the National Union ofJournalists, have voted for industrialaction over pensions. A spokespersonconfirmed the group would arrange ameeting as soon as possible to decidewhat action to take on foot of theballot result. RTÉ said it hopes theunion group will consider invokingthe assistance of the NationalImplementation Body. Up to 1990,all RTÉ staff were in a guaranteedsuperannuation pension scheme.However, new entrants since thenhave been in a defined contributionpension scheme, which carries noguarantee of final pension.
Councillor helpedbusinessman planA PROMINENT businessman hastold the George Redmond corruptiontrial he used the Fianna Fáil chiefwhip on Dublin County Council, thelate Mr Patrick Dunne, to assist himin planning matters. Robert (Pino)Harris, who owns a truck distributionbusiness, said the deceased CllrDunne would ‘do all the planning forus’. Mr Haris was speaking at ahearing in which Redmond deniesreceiving Ir£10,000 from Mr Dunnerelating to a compulsory purchaseorder on a farm in north-west Dublin.
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Urban Life helpingGovernment policyMEMBERS of Metro’s UrbanLife panel, who loyally take afew minutes out of their workingday every now and again to com-plete our Urban Life surveys,have actually been helping theGovernment with its integrationpolicies.Minister for Integration Conor
Lenihan yesterday launched aStatement on Integration and Di-versity Management, and to getthe most accurate idea on atti-tudes of and toward foreign na-
tionals here, the minister turnedto Metro and our Urbanites, us-ing the data to help launch ‘Mi-gration Nation’.Presenting the minister with
the Urban Life data, Metro man-aging director Lee Thompson
said there was a positive attitudetoward living and integratinginto Irish society among foreignnational Urbanites.‘There appears to be a high
level of day-to-day contact andsocialisation between Irish andforeign Urbanites, and there is apositive intention to stay in Ire-land in the medium to longterm,’ he said.Mr Lenihan said: ‘By putting
the proper structures in placeand… planning for the future,we can avoid the difficulties…other countries have experienced.’
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TWO Riverdance stars are setto waltz down the aisle as theytie the knot in the middle of theshow’s Irish tour. PadraicMoyles and Melissa Coverny,who first met on tour in the USfive years ago, both lived inCastleknock in Dublin aschildren, but Padraicemigrated to New York with hisfamily at aged eight. Niamh isthe only person still in thetroupe who danced in this firstperformance of the show whenit opened at the Point in 1995.
PadraicMoylesandMelissaCoverny
‘Illegal’ parents can stay in Ireland
Ifedinma,George andEthelbertDimbo have aright to stayin Ireland as afamily
THE Supreme Court hascleared the way for theNigerian parents of twoIrish-born boys to remain inthe State based on thepersonal rights of their
children. The Court ruled theMinister for Justice did notconsider the rights of theIrish citizen child in issuingdeportation orders againstthe parents of 11-year-old
George Dimbo and four-year-old Chuka Paul Oguekwe,including the right to thesociety, care and company oftheir parents and toprotection of the family.
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