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NUI Galway and charity to run postgraduate cardiology course
NUI Galway plans to provide postgraduate training in cardiovascular disease prevention in a community partnership with the heart and stroke charity Cro. The new master's course in preventive cardiology will be the first of its type in the State, according to NUIG, and one of only two of its kind in the world. The founder course in this area at ...
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Are senior church figures threatening or advising politicians
Fears around this were evoked during the 1960 US presidential campaign. It prompted JFK's address on September 12th, 1960, in which he said: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ...
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Catholic hierarchy still on a learning curve in dealing with abortion
The Roman Catholic hierarchy has formally stated its position on abortion by declaring definitively that the direct and intentional killing of the unborn is immoral. Yet, my dog-eared old Maynooth textbook tells me ...
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Charity has to return €130000 of fraudulent payments made through its website
A Co Kildare-based charity has had to return more than EUR130,000 in donations in recent weeks after its website was targeted as part of a credit card ...
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Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk abortion hearings told
Psychiatrists could be seen to be the "gatekeepers to abortion" if the provision allowing for terminations where a pregnant woman is suicidal is enacted, the Oireachtas health committee has ...
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‘Bring manufacturing back to Ireland’
By Vincent RyanBusiness Reporter Ireland may benefit from the increase in wages in China as a growing number of companies look to bring manufacturing back to their core markets.Hourly wages in China have increased by over 400% since 2001 and, coupled with the time difference and an average shipping time of six weeks, the attractiveness of manufacturing in the East may diminish for some sectors. ...
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Irish politics and German filmmaking Crystals new boutique access in Northern Europe
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Crystal Cruises is expanding its uber-exclusive collection of intimate "Boutique Adventures" during summer Northern Europe cruises with two new experiences in Belfast and Berlin. The shoreside outings - none of which are available on any other cruise line - offer intimate access to Northern Ireland's political leadership and Germany's Soho -- Soho House, ...
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Irish treasure to be returned from the UK
Treasure hunters using metal detectors are believed to have been behind the removal of nearly 900 artefacts from Ireland that have been recovered in the UK. Pictured are 28 medieval silver coins which were recovered by Norfolk Constabulary. Photograph: Ciara Wilkinson / National Museum of ...
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€18 million to be spent on Dublin City Council housing repairs
Dublin City Council receives about 50,000 requests each year from existing tenants seeking repairs to their homes. Photograph: Frank ...
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Feminism discussion opens 2013 writers festival
From left : Una Mullally, journaslist, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the civil liberties organisation, and Louise Lowe, theatre director and playwright, on the opening night of the Dublin Writers Festival, at Smock Alley Theatre. Photograph: Eric ...
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Cabinet to approve welfare scheme to allow lone parents re-enter workforce
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will bring a memo to Cabinet today on the Social Welfare Bill, which will be published later this week. Photograph: Eric ...
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Funeral of man found in farm pit in Co Tipperary
The daughter of a man who was murdered and left in a farm pit for almost two years yesterday prayed for justice for her father as he was finally given the dignity of a proper ...
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Missing woman probably died by drowning - Coroner
A woman who disappeared in December 2010 after withdrawing EUR60 from an ATM in Dublin and taking a taxi to Howth probably died by drowning, an inquest has ...
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New class of drug targets skin cancer
The first human use of the drug, known as DZ13, was conducted at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, but an Irish research clinician was principal investigator in the project. Details of the early phase one trial are published in the current edition of the ...
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Doctors differ patients fly and majority in Leinster House give abortion Bill a wide berth
Jerry Buttimer TD speaks to perinatal psychiatrists Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Joanne Fenton outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth ...
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Wheelchair user docked disability allowance
Frank Larkin missed signing on at his local post office in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, after cars were parked illegally in the disabled bay. Mr Larkin (41), who has spina bifida, drove around the town several times but could still not park. He managed to sign on to claim his money the following week. However, this week Mr Larkin, Long Lane, Letterkenny, received a letter from the disability ...
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Josef Pavelka ‘remembered with love’ says Ennis priest
Ennis priest Fr Ger Fitzgerald told mourners last night that Czech national Josef Pavelka (52) was among the poorest of the poor and "is remembered here with love". Fr Fitzgerald was speaking at a service at Ennis Cathedral following the removal of Mr Pavelka's body to the church where he spent much of his time while in ...
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Just a dozen nurses to start by June on HSE’s lower paid graduate programme
So far, only eight graduate nurses have been employed under the controversial two-year contracts on lower pay offered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) though, according to the Minister for ...
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Conflict studies institute launched
IICD ) as part of the peace process.The Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's will allow researchers and political activists from different parts of the world to connect.Mr Ahtisaari said: "In order to really understand the nature of conflicts, we need to invest in thorough, high-quality research and analysis. I'm pleased to witness this ...
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Nursing home used CCTV ‘as substitute for supervisory staff’
Mr Hawkes received a complaint in April last year in relation to the operation of CCTV cameras at a nursing home, which is not identified in the report. It emerged that two directors were monitoring the CCTV system live using ...
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New hip replacement therapy halves hospital time says surgeon
An innovative form of hip-replacement therapy, which cuts time in hospital in half, should be rolled out across the health service, an orthopaedic surgeon has ...
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Abortion Bill risks normalising suicide says leading psychiatrist
The Government's plans to legislate for abortion could have the unintended consequence of pushing more young men towards suicide, according to a leading ...
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Three charged over weekend disturbance in Killarney hotel
The Quality Hotel in Killarney, Co Kerry: At least two staff members received facial and other injuries and a number of garda called to deal with the disturbance also received injuries during an incident involving ...
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Still no clear answers as abortion debate goes on
Regardless of whether you are in favour of or against the planned abortion legislation, it is difficult not to be concerned by the divisions between the professionals on its contents. There was a clear divergence of opinion between the masters of the State's main maternity hospitals when the Oireachtas health committee began its hearings into the legislation last ...
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Cantillon Big hitters just keep on winning in legal sector
Given that most of Ireland's big law firms so assiduously guard even their most basic financial information, outsiders will gratefully seize on any means of gauging how they're faring. One of these is the number of practising certificates at each firm, which gives us a glimpse at the latest hiring trends in the ...
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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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