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Seanad Harte calls for urgent cross-Border initiative against diesel laundering
Mr Harte said he knew of a case in Donegal where the garage owner was convicted but the garage continued to operate and everyone knew where the diesel was being ...
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Big cuts in top public service pensions
Brendan Howlin: told the Dil the legislation will provide a facility for unions to conclude collective agreements with their public service employers. Photograph: Gareth Chaney ...
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Disclosure of minor traffic occurrence involving Wallace highly improper says leading academic
Ireland's leading legal authority on policing has contended the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner acted highly improperly in "playing politics" with the minor traffic "ticking-off" of Independent ...
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Snore app can provide wake-up call for sleep apnoea
Prof Kevin McGuigan at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is developing a phone and laptop app that can record and analyse your sleep sounds and predict whether you have a form of snoring called sleep ...
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Strike fears grow as teachers reject pay proposals
ASTI general secretary Pat King said key reasons behind the emphatic rejection of Croke Park II by teachers remained part of the Haddington Road ...
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Haddington Road agreement will save €1 billion by 2015 Howlin says
Minister says Government’s objective was to maintain Croke Park II deal’s productivity elements and achieve targeted savings in pay and ...
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Creches suspend staff over conduct
The Giraffe Childcare and Early learning Centre, Belarmine, near Stepaside, Dublin. It said "clear evidence of inappropriate conduct in caring for young children by a particular staff member, who has already been suspended" had been uncovered and filmed during an investigation by an undercover ...
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Siptu urges members to accept revised Croke Park deal
Impact general secretary Shay Cody said revised deal contained improved proposals, including ring-fenced flexitime and work-sharing arrangements. Photograph: Dylan ...
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Stolen cables cost Eircom €600000
Criminal gangs, some using cherry-pickers and other heavy machinery, stole more than 37,000m of telephone cable from Eircom's live network last year, costing the company nearly EUR600,000 to ...
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Shatter’s disclosure about Wallace rebounds on Minister with a vengeance
Alan Shatter decided to disclose an obscure occurrence involving Independent TD Mick Wallace and a garda, he should have known it would give his political opponents carte blanche to trawl the files to dig up any historical embarrassment of his ...
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Robinson and McGuinness stoutly defend the value of foreign investment trips
Mr Robinson suggested at a briefing for journalists at Stormont Castle yesterday that some of the coverage attempted "to demean Northern Ireland's political leaders by asking them to take a tent and go into a park . . ." Credibility "You take away your own credibility by suggesting that the leaders of a country should go economy class and go into two-star hotels," he ...
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Kenny identifies accord with troika as essential during trip to Athens
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras and Taoiseach Enda Kenny during a meeting in Athens on Thursday. Photograph: Yorgos ...
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Scientists identify the mystery killer behind Irelands potato famine
Starving people searching for potatoes in a stubble field during the Great Famine (1845-1852) which was caused by the failure of the Irish potato crop and British government ...
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Pakistan Ireland tie in Dublin
Pakistan and Ireland played out a thrilling tie in the first one-day international at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, Dublin on Thursday.A knock of 84 from Asad Shafiq and Mohammed Afeez's 122 not out set the tone for the tourists, as they posted 266 in an innings reduced to 47 overs by rain.The weather interruption left Ireland needing 276 to win by virtue of the Duckworth-Lewis method, ...
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New faces for Kerry and Tipperary
Young defender Fionn Fitzgerald will make his first Championship start for Kerry when his side take on Tipperary in the Munster GAA Football Championship on Sunday. The Dr Crokes clubman has been rewarded for some impressive displays in the league and is the only new face in a familiar looking Kingdom side. Manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice has named a side which contain 12 members of the team ...
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Staff brought from Spain to Dublin plant are not replacing strikers company says
Staff brought from Spain to a waste-water treatment plant in Co Dublin, where a Siptu strike is under way, have not been brought in to replace strikers, management at the plant said ...
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Call for more restorative justice plans
A restorative programme to help develop conflict resolution skills in west Tallaght in Dublin should be rolled out to all schools in Ireland, former governor of Mountjoy ...
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McGuinness wants deal on parades flags and the past to be in place before Christmas
Martin McGuinness said they want a blueprint to deal with parades, flags and the past by Christmas and they want somebody of the status of former US ...
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With G8 leaders on the way Northern Ireland ramps up security
Amid a perceived triple threat of left-wing protestors, Islamist terrorists, and dissident republican paramilitaries, Northern Ireland is doubling its police force and preparing drones for the ...
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Judge wants Gallagher tape handed over
He faces two charges arising out of an incident on May 13th and May 14th this year. One charge is a threat to kill his brother Donal Gallagher while the second charge is harassing this brother over a period of time spanning both ...
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Two women arrested after cannabis grow house discovered in Monaghan
Garda discovered a grow house during the search of a business unit on the outskirts of Castleblayney as part of a planned operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the Monaghan ...
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McGahern’s works characterised by ‘revolutionary disillusionment’
Revolutionary disillusionment is a theme which recurs in much of John McGahern's work and clearly reflected his father's experience both as a Volunteer and in his later life in the Free State, ...
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Teaching unions reject revised proposals to cut public sector pay
The country's largest union, Siptu, has urged its members in the public service to accept revised proposals on reducing the public service pay bill, but the two main teaching unions have said they will be rejecting the ...
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Ireland draw exciting opener
Ireland fell agonisingly short of a first-ever win over a Test-playing national in Dublin as the opening RSA Insurance one-day international against Pakistan ended in a tie.Kevin O'Brien swept the final ball from Saeed Ajmal for four to level the scores after Paul Stirling's second century in as many games against Pakistan had set the platform for a historic success.O'Brien ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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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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