That’s Ireland

During this week last year (Apr 14 to Apr 20, 2007):

• How did madam Deena Edridge from Kildare make legal history?
• How much did Bank of Ireland have to pay back to customers it had wrongly charged, and why?
• How did a seven-year-old boy from Singapore, whose grandparents are from Mayo, show himself to be a child genius?
  
• Which senior negotiator of the Good Friday Agreement switched allegiance to a different political party?
• Who denied a claim by his former Garda driver that he had travelled to Manchester with a briefcase of cash in the 1990s?

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Answers

• She became the first woman in the history of the State to be jailed for organising prostitution.
• €1.8m. Government duty charges had been wrongly applied to 50,000 accounts wrongly designated as Irish resident accounts.
• He passed the equivalent of a Junior Certificate examination in chemistry.
• David Trimble, from the Ulster Unionists to the Conservatives.
• Yep, you guessed it.