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Organ campaigner Joe Brolly urges law change
Shane Finnegan, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Joe Brolly and First Minister Peter Robinson at the start of the Life Cycle Challenge in Belfast today. Photograph: PA ...
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Wallace accuses Shatter of trying to discredit him
Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace: 'unaware' of incident referred to by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish ...
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Waterford sports coach freed in abuse inquiry
Garda are to prepare a file for the DPP after this morning releasing without charge a sports coach arrested for questioning about the sexual abuse of 30 boys ...
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Thats That A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
is his chronicle of life as the second-eldest in a family of six children in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, during the modern-day "Troubles": parochial rivalries, British rule, IRA bombings, and an almost weekly death toll, during which Broderick and his friends were trying to grow up. "First of all, when you think about growing up in basically the middle of a war, you sort of, ...
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Diesel laundering operation uncovered in west Dublin
Officers discovered a laundering operation capable of washing over 2.5m litres of agricultural diesel a year , with a potential loss to the Exchequer of about EUR1.75 million per ...
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NI drug smuggler sentenced to 14 years by Greek court
A Co Tyrone truck driver has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for drug smuggling after being arrested in Greece following a Europe-wide police operation that included ...
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Explosive device removed by Northern Ireland police investigating attempted murders
What is believed to be a bomb found by police investigating the attempt to murder three officers in West Belfast has been taken away, police ...
Ireland Digest
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Is Ireland living beyond its means?
Ireland is highly developed and has experienced rapid and constant economic growth in the last few decades, with many calling the country the Celtic Tiger. But recent events in the world economy and the financial situation of Europe may mean changes are afoot for the Tiger.
Ireland is one of the most developed countries in the world and has a high tax high government service economic model, it has for the last few decades substantially reduced the socio-economic inequalities in the economy and had a Gini coefficient score of 30.1 in 2000 while The Economist says we have the best quality of life in the world. This has come at a cost though, government deficits are running at over 10% of GDP, public debt accounts for over 40% of all revenue generated in the economy and the Irish population has a debt level, in relation to disposable income, that is the highest in the developed world – our personal debt in 190% more than our disposable income. All this begs the question, are we living within our means or is Ireland’s economic model unsustainable? Read more
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