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Governor of Maryland to meet Taoiseach during Irish visit
Martin O'Malley: "There is among the Irish, by and large in America, a keen and heartfelt awareness that we are a nation of nations and we have all been strangers in a foreign land at one point." Photograph: David ...
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Independent chairman to be appointed to health insurance forum to reduce costs
Dr James Reilly: said the appointment would be made in order to oversee "a process of review" of a number of areas to give effect to "real cost reductions" in the private health insurance ...
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Crown says cancer patients denied treatment
Prof John Crown: said a patient battling malignant melanoma had been deemed appropriate for the drug, Ipilimumab, but the insurance company, GloHealth, had informed him that it would not cover its members for the ...
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Coveney says reforms on way for workers
Simon Coveney has told the Dil. He said this balance was being achieved by the Government, in terms of meeting job creation targets, but there was a long way to go. "We have a lot of reform to introduce in this and many other areas. "At the end of [our term in office] I hope we'll be judged as a Government that has reversed the fortunes of Ireland - an Ireland that was collapsing ...
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Three years for having sex with 14-year-old schoolgirl
Moore pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two charges of having sex with a child under the age of 17 in the Phoenix Park and a city centre B&B on March 2nd and 3rd, ...
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Lough Erne G8 plan could spell trouble for Ireland’s corporate tax regime
"For the Taoiseach it was an image to die for. There's nothing a leader likes more than proximity to more powerful leaders." US president Barack Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny take a walk at the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Fermanagh. Photograph: Laura Hutton/Photocall ...
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Exhausted deputies in need of energy boost from oysters
The exchanges conjured up images of exhausted parliamentarians doing a job few others wanted to do. No more backstabbing and jockeying for position at pre-election selection conventions. That will be the ...
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NGOs give G8 summit positions on Syria guarded welcome
Similarities were drawn between the reactions of the international community to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the ongoing crisis in Syria by Goal chief executive Barry Andrews after yesterday's G8 summit drew to a ...
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Judgment points to legal lacuna on forced marriages
John Mac Menamin in his judgment yesterday in the case of "R", a 16-year-old girl who was in State care for a time amid concerns that she had been forced by her conservative Muslim parents to marry a 29-year-old man she hardly knew. No consent In suggesting that new laws and procedures may be required to protect young people from forced marriage, the judge has identified a lacuna ...
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Irish Lawmakers Expected to Approve Limited Abortion
DUBLIN -- The Irish Parliament is expected to legalize limited abortion before its summer break after the publication of final government proposals that would allow terminations in cases when there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother, including the threat of ...
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Michelle Obama joins Bono for lunch in Ireland
Michelle Obama and Bono at Finnegan's Pub. While President Obama was asking Northern Irish youth to make a "permanent peace," First Lady Michelle Obama, with Malia and Sasha, headed out to Finnegan's Pub in Dalkey, where she met up with Bono and his family.The arrival of the celebrities caused quite a stir with the locals.Chef Paul Finnegan said the two groups were ...
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Vilification of State agencies is well off the mark
It has become fashionable in recent years to vilify state agencies on the basis of their allegedly inefficient use of scarce resources. Yet there is very limited evidence to suggest that such vilification is either deserved or wise. Agencies are an essential part of the fabric of government and are pivotal to the delivery of a wide range of public ...
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Abuse of women usually happens behind closed doors not in the full media glare
A Women's Aid protest outside Leinster House, drawing attention to the statistic that one in five women is affected by domestic violence. Photograph: Bryan ...
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ACT Brumbies 14 - British and Irish Lions 12 match report Tourists tamed in first defeat to local side for 17 years
It scarcely seems worth the effort for a representative team to fly halfway round the world for a rugby match and then fail to show up on the night, so Rory Best's confession along those lines after this bitterly disappointing defeat - the first Lions failure against provincial opponents in 16 years - was sorrowful in the extreme. Precisely how deeply events have pierced the soul of the ...
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Chairman steps down after distribution of pro-life leaflets in Dublin primary school
The Chairman of the Board of a South Dublin Primary school has resigned over distributing pro-life leaflets to young pupils.Eddie Shaw said he was stepping down with immediate effect from the Board of the Harold School in Glasthule with immediate effect.He has apologised unreservedly to teachers and ...
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Irelands refugee acceptance rate lower than European counterparts
Ireland is not accepting as many refugees as its European counterparts.That is the claim being made by the Irish Refugee Council who said that the latest European statistics on asylum show Ireland has the third lowest rate in the EU.According to their figures 10% of cases were granted status on their first try, with just 6.8% success on appeal. The total percentage of positive decisions was 8.3% ...
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SVINAKTIG GODT: Belfast er Nord-Irlands hovedstad og har spennende ...
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Fancy Hats and High Heels for Ireland’s Renowned Horse-Racing Festival
Let’s daydream a bit now for our Geo Quiz. Forget about work for a while and think vacation. Imagine a summer trip to a city in western Ireland. This city’s located on the River Corrib. Every summer, it hosts a horse racing festival, a tradition that goes back to 1869. Heck that’s a few years before horses first raced in the Kentucky Derby. So can you name the Irish ...
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Ireland U20s pipped by France at JWC
Ireland have lost 9-8 to hosts France in their fifth place play-off semi-final at the Junior World Cup. Number 8 Ryan Murphy crossed for a try in the first half while Rory Scannell also landed a penalty kick. However, three penalties from France scrum-half Baptiste Serin won it for the home side in La ...
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Ireland accepts less refugees than European counterparts
Ireland accepts less refugees than almost anywhere else in Europe.That is the claim being made by the Irish Refugee Council who said that the latest European statistics on asylum show Ireland has the third lowest rate in the EU.According to their figures 10% of cases were granted status on their first try, with just 6.8% success on appeal. The total percentage of positive decisions was 8.3% ...
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Two arrested after drugs seizure in Galway
Two men have been arrested in Galway after a major drugs seizure in the county.Herbal cannabis with an estimated street value of EUR400,000 was found during a search of a house in Tuam this afternoon.The men who are both in their 40s are being detained at Galway Garda Station where they can be held for up to seven days.The investigation involving members of the Garda National Drugs Unit, Revenue ...
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Obama Cameron Barroso Push EU-U.S. Merger at G8 Ireland Summit
President Barack Obama, in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, for the G8 Summit, joined European leaders in pushing the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a vast scheme for intertwining the economies and political structures of Europe and the United States. (See our detailed expos of the ...
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Two held over Tuam cannabis seizure
Two men have been arrested after drugs worth over €400,000 were seized in Co Galway. Officers from the Garda National Drugs Unit along with local gardaí searched a house in Tuam just after 5pm and found 20kg of cannabis herb. The men, aged 49 and 41, were arrested at the ...
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Shinzo Abe asks Stormont to continuously support Japanese companies in Northern Ireland
An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...
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Parliamentary assistant to Donegal TD claims unfair dismissal
Joan Blackbyrne is taking a case against the Donegal deputy and the Houses of the Oireachtas. Counsel for the Houses of the Oireachtas has claimed Ms Blackbyrne was an employee of Mr Pringle only. Ms Blackbyrne began work as parliamentary assistant to ...
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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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