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Cycleway for old rail way route between Glenbeigh and Renard in Co Kerry
The 26km route will run parallel to, but over, the Ring of Kerry roadway, offering spectacular views. The Department of Transport has allocated EUR50,000 towards the ...
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Drive to attract students undermines academic education says professor
Prof Richard Arum was speaking ahead of a keynote address he will give at the NUI Maynooth education forum today. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish ...
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Shatter novel prompts censorship reform
Alan Shatter 24 years ago when he was a backbencher has prompted him to transfer responsibility for censorship out of his department. A complaint to ...
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Fine Gael TD voices concern over Seanad abolition
Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell: "I would most certain ly urge caution until we have a clear and coherent overall vision of where we are going." Photograph: Eric ...
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Stand-off over turf cutting in Co Galway
A group of people have gathered at a roadway leading to a bog designated as a Special Area of Conservation in Co Galway tonight. They are concerned that machinery used to cut turf may be seized. Ardgraigue bog near Killimor is one of 53 bogs where a ban on turf cutting is in place. Earlier today, turf was cut on banks belonging to more than 50 local people. The process began at 5am and was ...
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Lesbian couples relationship plans put on hold by Northern Irelands gay adoption ban court hears
A lesbian woman seeking to raise a child with her partner has had their relationship plans put on hold by the ban on gay and unmarried couples adopting in Northern Ireland, the Court of Appeal heard ...
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Peter Mathews says Fine Gael gave committment to allow conscientious objection
Fine Gael TD said party signed up to international agreement last October as moral and ethics experts address TDs and Senators on conscientious objection to proposed abortion ...
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Time not right to sell Aer Lingus stake - Howlin
The Government does not think the time is right to sell its 25% stake in Aer Lingus, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said tonight. The Government said it would consider the sale of its remaining stake in the former State carrier two years ago. In its state asset sales plan in February last year it said it was determined to find a buyer once market conditions ...
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IMF says Ireland may exit bailout this year
Ireland has a good chance of exiting its bailout this year, the International Monetary Fund said this afternoon. It would benefit from more European support in cleaning up its indebted banks and the safety net of precautionary funding, the IMF said. In contrast to much of the eurozone, Ireland’s economy has expanded for much of the past two years, and the IMF kept its growth forecasts ...
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British Bankers Ireland Bound
commission was convened in the wake of Britain's LIBOR rate-rigging scandal and was mandated to examine British banking culture. The result is a 571-page report likely to play a role in ongoing banking reforms. Included is a proposal that banker bonuses be delayed ...
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Irish school chairman resigns after complaints about pro-life leaflet
The chairman of a primary school in Dublin has resigned after being caught up in a controversy over the distribution of flyers advertising a pro-life event. Eddie Shaw stepped down from his post at the Harold School, apologizing for the fact that some young students were sent home with leaflets promoting the "Vigil for Life" on June 8. Shaw said: "I want to repeat my unreserved ...
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Two arrested after €150k drugs seizure in Cork
Two men have been arrested following a drugs seizure in Co Cork.Garda stopped and searched a car close to an area known as Halfway in Ballinhassig outside of Cork city earlier today and recovered 25kg of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of EUR150,000.The two occupants of the car, a local man in his early 40's and a man in his 30's from Dublin, were arrested at the scene. ...
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Over 1000 attend special mass for murdered mother and daughter
Upwards of 1,000 people gathered in Killorglin this evening for a special mass to remember a murdered mother and daughter.27-year-old Jolanta Lubiene and her 8-year-old daughter Enrika were stabbed to death between 2 and 6pm last Saturday; their bodies were discovered at their home in Langford Downs, Killorglin on Sunday night at around ...
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Exclusive - Forest mulls bid for Irish drugmaker Elan sources
, the specialty drugmaker that counts investor Carl Icahn as a major shareholder, is among a handful of companies interested in bidding for Irish drugmaker Elan Corp ...
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Wind farm development process lacking transparency Martin says
Michel Martin: "There is an absence of a legislative framework to deal with the step change in technology and scale of development." Photograph: Alan ...
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EU asked for help in battle of fluoridation
Ms Pocock was representing her father the late Robert Pocock, a long-standing campaigner on the issue, who passed away unexpectedly less than two months ago. She told the committee residents of the Republic were the only residents of an EU state to be "mandatorily fluoridated by our ...
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Robinson and McGuinness see investment opportunities in Japan
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe joins First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness during a visit to the Titanic visitor centre in Belfast yesterday. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP ...
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Censorship moves to Arts after Shatter complaint
Responsibility for the Censorship of Publications Board is to be transferred from the Minister for Justice to the Minister for Arts. The change comes after a member of the public lodged a complaint about a novel by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. A Government spokesperson said the move was being made in part because it was more logical to have the Department of Arts in charge, and in part ...
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Two held over Togher drugs seizure
Two men have been arrested following the seizure of drugs worth over €150,000 in Co Cork. The men were detained and two cars seized when detectives intercepted them near the village of Five Mile. Around 25kg of cannabis resin was recovered. The men are being held at Togher Garda ...
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Uncle says ‘parole or no parole the man should never have been walking the streets’
The length of the sentence is in some way "just incidental in the sense that he [Bayley] was the man that he was; he should never have been let out. So it doesn't really matter what amount of time [he got] . . . parole or no parole, the man should never have been walking the ...
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Poor professional conduct finding against paediatrician ‘unproven’ court told
A finding of poor professional performance against a paediatrician over an incorrect "tongue-tie" procedure on a young child in his care was unproven, irrational and disproportionate, ...
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Daly says Govt and media slobbered over Obamas
Clare Daly has accused the Government and the media of "slobbering" over the Obama family during their two-day visit to Ireland this week. US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters visited Dublin and Wicklow while her husband attended the G8 summit in Co Fermanagh. Ms Daly told the Dáil that RTÉ had commissioned extra programmes to tell people what the family had ...
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In pictures Belfast roads re-opened following gas leak
Two Belfast city centre streets have re-opened following a gas leak earlier. Great Victoria Street and Dublin Road were shut and a number of buildings were evacuated during the gas leak which a spokeswoman for the PSNI said there had been in the area of the old Shaftesbury Hospital."Phoenix Gas has been informed and are attending," she said.At around 6pm on Wednesday, the PSNI said ...
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Three jailed for substantial Belfast cannabis operation
Three Chinese men who admitted involvement in a "substantial" operation to sell cannabis on a commercial scale have been jailed for a total of seven-and-a-half ...
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Assault victim speaks of anger at attacker being ‘rewarded’ by reality TV show
Ciara Kiernan (18), who with her sister Sabrina Archbold (25) received a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assault causing harm. Kiernan was taken to Paris as part of John Lonergan's Circus. Photograph: Collins ...
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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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