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RTÉ News: Dáíl bar goes to Galway

The Dáil bar has gone to Galway and Oireachtas authorities are not pursuing it

A Galway publican opened The Dáil Bar in Cross Street in the city last November and despite the association of the name with Leinster House, authorities there have decided not to take any legal action.

A Leinster House commission sought legal advice over the issue and a spokesperson said they have now concluded that no action will be taken, as the title ‘The Dáil Bar’ is not registered, and the ‘Dáil bar’ in Leinster House technically does not exist, as it actually refers to two bars in the building.

via RTÉ News: Dáíl bar goes to Galway.

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Dictionary helps crack case of notorious Polish serial offender – The Irish Times – Thu, Feb 19, 2009

Dictionary helps crack case of notorious Polish serial offender

RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC, Migration Correspondent

HE WAS one of Ireland’s most reckless drivers, a serial offender who crossed the country wantonly piling up dozens of speeding fines and parking tickets while somehow managing to elude the law.

So effective was his modus operandi of giving a different address each time he was caught that by June 2007 there were more than 50 separate entries under his name, Prawo Jazdy, in the Garda Pulse system. And still not a single conviction.

In the end, the vital clue to his identity lay not with Interpol or the fingerprint database but in the pages of a Polish-English dictionary. Prawo jazdy means driving licence.

via Dictionary helps crack case of notorious Polish serial offender – The Irish Times – Thu, Feb 19, 2009.

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