The post office worker was injured during an attempted robbery at a post office in Walkinstown.
A shot was fired through a glass panel during the raid at Bunting Road in Walkinstown, Dublin 12, at around 9.30am.
In a separate raid, cash was stolen during an armed robbery at the Lidl supermarket in Thomas Street, Dublin 8.
Two shops in Crumlin were also robbed at gunpoint today.
Gardaí are appealing for information on the incidents.
The armed robbery on Thomas Street happened at around 8.30am.
Two men armed with a shotgun and a knife held up staff and stole an amount of cash from the Lidl outlet.
Gardaí say they escaped in a silver Honda car in the direction of Bridge Street.
An hour later two armed and masked men tried to rob the post office in Walkinstown.
It is believed a gun was held to a customer's head, but the raiders grew impatient and a shot was fired in the direction of the woman behind the counter.
The glass panel was shattered and the woman sustained injuries, believed to be caused by glass.
She has been taken to hospital. No money was taken during the raid, however it is the second consecutive Friday the post office has been targeted.
IPU happy with 'robust systems'
Brian McGann, General Secretary of the Irish Postmasters’ Union, visited the scene in Walkinstown this morning, and has asked all postmaters and members of the public to remain vigilant at all times, and to report any suspicious activity to the gardaí.
He said on this occasion the security system did its job, and if it had not the outcome could have been more serious.
"The union and An Post work together to develop and improve security at post offices, and it remains our number one priority.
“The thing with security systems will always be that the criminals will spend their time trying to get around the systems.
“So I'm satisfied that we are doing everything we can to make sure that we have the most robust systems in place in every post office in every part of the country."
Source: www.rte.ie
London 2012 Olympics venues: All England Lawn Tennis Club - Daily Telegraph
Hosting: Tennis
Schedule: July 28 – Aug 5
Capacity: 30,000
Fact: Wimbledon has been inhabited since the Iron Age.
Post games: na/a
Test event: Jun 20-Jul 3, 2011: Tennis, The Championships
Transport: Wimbledon (London Underground, National Rail, Tramlink), Southfields (London Underground), South Wimbledon (London Underground)
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
South Africa's warm-up at Kent is washed out - BBC News
South Africa batted for just 90 minutes against Kent before rain washed out the middle day of their final warm-up match before the first Test against England.
Chasing a target of 210, the tourists moved from 31-1 to 108-2 in 22 overs following a delayed start.
Following Alviro Petersen's dismissal, Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis were unbeaten before a storm broke.
But South Africa's assistant coach Russell Domingo said he was "not worried" by the lack of preparation.
England v South Africa Tests
19-23 July: First Test, The Oval
2-6 August: Second Test, Headingley
16-20 August: Third Test, Lord's
"We had such a good week of preparation in Switzerland - the guys were almost saying 'we're mentally ready to play already'," he said.
"They're fired up to go and do this."
Petersen was trapped lbw by Simon Cook, adding to Graeme Smith's wicket on the opening day.
South Africa face England in the first Test at the Oval next Thursday without injured pair bowler Marchant de Lange and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Kent primary pupils to be taught in school halls while extra classrooms are built - Kent News
School children
By Marijke Cox, Reporter
Saturday, July 14, 2012
9:00 AM
Kent County Council trying to tackle shortage of primary school places
Hundreds of pupils will be taught in mobile classrooms or school halls in the autumn term due to potential delays in building new primary provision.
It comes amid the crisis surrounding the lack of primary school places where more than 10,000 extra places will be needed in Kent over the next few years.
An emergency £5.4m programme is being implemented by Kent County Council to deliver additional provision at 18 schools across the county, through extensions and high-quality mobile classrooms.
But high demand for the September intake, combined with possible building delays, means some schools may have to use existing space, such as halls, until permanent provision is made.
Mobile classrooms – some of which will be kept permanently – will also be used.
Cabinet member for education at KCC Cllr Mike Whiting said the council would be expanding provision at schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.
“We are determined as a county council that everyone who needs a place in reception year in September, 2012, will get one and where possible parents shall have one of their three preferences,” he said.
“This will be by ensuring that relevant classrooms and adequate classroom space is available in September.
“They aren’t all temporary; some will be permanent and adaptations of existing buildings.”
Deputy cabinet member for education Cllr Gary Cooke stressed the county was “not going back to mobile city” and that provision would be good quality.
But leader of the Labour Group at KCC Cllr Leslie Christie said it was nonsense that a decision over September places was being made so late.
“That cannot be good planning,” he said.
“Something has led to this, whether it’s poor forecasting in the past or whether it’s unique numbers that appeared this year.”
He also stressed his concern over the impact additional provision could have on neighbouring schools which could end up with a surplus of places.
But director of education Patrick Leeson said it was important that good quality education was expanded.
Commenting on the late decision over provision he said: “This decision is not one we would normally be taking in July.
“In publishing our draft education commissioning plan we will have a more systematic approach to planning ahead and making enough provision for parents to have the school of their choice.
“We can be better at being systematic and planning ahead and our commissioning plan will help us to do that on a more regular basis, but there will always be last-minute decisions about some schools having to expand.”
Earlier this year, KCC admitted to needing thousands of additional primary school places and the need to expand schools.
Education chiefs were accused of failing to plan ahead.
In its draft commissioning plan for education, the authority vows to increase places as well as the percentage of parents securing their preferred schools.
Source: www.kentnews.co.uk
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