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Saturday, November 22 2008

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Soap siren caught in Costa club crossfire

By MAEVE SHEEHAN and Gerard Couzens

THE worlds of crime and celebrity collided on the Costa del Sol this weekend as a Dublin gangland figure was shot on Thursday, and a Hollyoaks actress was amongst the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of a separate gun attack yesterday.

Eucharist from GM wheat 'contravenes canon law'

By JEROME REILLY

Genetically-modified (GM) wheat may not be be suitable under canon law to be used to make hosts for the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist, it's been claimed.

State loans for businesses discussed with top banks

By RONALD QUINLAN

STATE-BACKED loans for business are to be considered by the Government in September as efforts get underway to revive the flagging economy.

Desperate search for boy 'given' to Travellers

By Brendan Furlong and Maeve Sheehan

RELATIVES of a six-year-old boy who was given away to a Traveller family when he was just a two-year-old toddler have made a fresh appeal for information to find him.

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