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INSIDE: LCC students welcome Holocaust COMPASS: Your unmissable 8-page survivor for talk P2 guide to travel in 2012 See pages 17-24
On adoptions: Clarification on Ireland’s stance Soccer: Lucan United face biggest test in FAI Cup Page 32
THE Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald (pictured with chairman of the Adoption Board, Geoffrey Shannon, and Mr Ha Hung Cuong, Minister for Justice, Socialist Republic of Vietnam) writes in The Gazette about the best procedures for adoptive couples and persons to undertake, as Ireland renews its inter-country adoption procedures with Vietnam. Minister Fitzgerald discusses the proper channels to undertake, and clarifies Ireland’s position on such adoptions. See Opinion on Page 10
Camogie: St Joseph’s claim Dublin senior title Page 31
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Ten-minute grace for Lucan parking Complaints lead to enforcement change in village
Q PAUL HOSFORD
MOTORISTS are to be given a ten-minute grace period to purchase parking tickets in Lucan village following complaints about parking enforcement in the village. The move has been welcomed by Fine Gael council-
lor William Lavelle, who put forward a motion at a council meeting last week calling for the introduction of the grace period to enable motorists to purchase and display a parking ticket before fines are issued. “As local councillor for Lucan, I have been a con-
sistent champion of efforts to improve the business and social life of Lucan village. “Two years ago, I was to the fore in opposing an increase in parking charges and the introduction of Saturday payparking in Lucan village,” said Cllr Lavelle. Full Story on Page 4