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Govt passes Bill to allow for greater use of generic drugs
Health Minister James Reilly has welcomed the passing of new legislation which allows for greater use of generic drugs. The 'Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods Bill' will allow pharmacists to substitute medicines which have been marked as interchangeable by the Irish Medicines Board. Dr Reilly said it will substantially reduce medicine prices for both the State and ...
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Wallace How could penalty points incident reach Minister a year later
Mick Wallace has said he hopes the Standards in Public Office Commission will get to the bottom of the penalty points debacle.Last night, the Justice Minister Alan Shatter addressed the Dil in the wake of revelations he made that Deputy Wallace had evaded penalty points due to garda discretion.Minister Shatter said he was given the information about Mr Wallace by Garda Commissioner Martin ...
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Extra tickets for Donegal in Ballybofey
Donegal have been given 1,000 extra tickets for Sunday’s Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final with Tyrone in Ballybofey after the Red Hand failed to sell their full allocation. Tyrone had argued that their 5,750 tickets allocation would not be enough to satisfy demand but after returning 1,000 tickets, 40 Donegal clubs will now benefit. Tyrone PRO Eunan Lindsay originally ...
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Coroner says recession a factor in suicide rate
The coroner for Co Westmeath has said the economic crisis is one of the factors that have led to a sharp increase in the incidence of suicide in the county. Dr Wilfred Hoover said the recession was not the only issue. He said there had been an increase of over 400% in the number of people who had taken their own lives, as recorded in verdicts at his court, in the first three months of the ...
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Animal welfare laws pass through the Oireachtas
A Bill that provides for micro chipping of all dogs by 2015 has passed through the Oireachtas. The Animal Health and Welfare Bill will force all dog owners to have their dogs chipped, making the animals readily identifiable if welfare issues arise. The Bill also outlaws attending and recording dog fights, and the practice of docking or cutting dogs' tails for cosmetic reasons. New powers ...
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Irish PM Kenny defends tax regime
Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax ...
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Taoiseach defends taxation regime
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax ...
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Gun found in east Belfast dissident search
Dissident republicans are attempting to whip up tensions around the marching season in a bid to attract a new generation of recruits, a senior Orange Order figure has ...
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You Cant Blame Ireland for Apples Tax-Avoidance Either
Joe O'Malley and his sheep dog Floss check on his sheep grazing on the common land on Clare Island, County Mayo, Ireland September 23, 2009. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters) While being grilled in a Senate committee hearing ...
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Ireland branded tax haven ahead of EU summit on tax evasion
Ireland faced further questions over its corporate tax rate on Wednesday after US senators branded the country as a ‘tax haven’. Those remarks came during ...
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Kenny Ireland at forefront of fight for tax transparency
Tasoieach Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax havens.Ireland's low corporate tax rates have been identified in inquiries into how companies such as Google and Apple arrange their tax affairs to reduce liabilities to a minimum.But, ...
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Surveyor believes Tit Bonhomme skipper was in bed at time of crash
The Marine Surveyor who investigated the wreckage of the Tit Bonhomme says that it was likely that the skipper Michael Hayes was not at the helm at the time of the crash.The inquest into the deaths of the five crewmen is nearing the end of its second day.Marine Surveyor Owen O'Toole told the hearing today that the Tit Bonhomme took a sudden change in direction close to Adam Island minutes ...
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Business as usual at Tipperary hotel under provisional liquidation
The group that has been appointed as a provisional liquidator to a Co Tipperary hotel with 75 weddings on the books, including one tomorrow, has said it is "business as usual" at the hotel.PREM Group has been appointed to manage the Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf Resort, Limerick Junction, Co Tipperary, which has been placed into provisional liquidation. Jim Murphy, Managing Director, ...
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82 confirmed cases of ash dieback in Ireland
The Department of Agriculture has confirmed 82 cases of ash dieback disease in Ireland. All the cases are in trees that were imported from the Continent and none were found in native ash trees. Ash dieback or chalara fraxinea was first noticed in forestry in Poland in 1992. Since then it spread rapidly across Europe and is now found in 19 countries. The first confirmed case in Ireland was ...
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DUP hits out at Sinn Fein call for Hyde Park accused release
The DUP has criticised calls from Sinn Fein for the release of a man arrested over the deaths of four soldiers in London 31 years ago. John Downey was arrested at Gatwick Airport on Sunday and appeared in court on Wednesday charged with the murders of Roy John Bright, Dennis Richard Anthony Daly, Simon Andrew Tipper and Geoffrey Vernon Young.The men were members of the Royal Household Cavalry ...
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Riot of colour at Texaco kids’ art awards
Winners in this year's Texaco Children's Art Competition pictured with their artwork at the awards ceremony was held in CityWest today. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish ...
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Work on Grafton Street to start after June bank holiday
The work will take 18 months to complete. The street will stay open to pedestrians during this period but access for delivery vans will be ...
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Trawler changed course before collision inquest told
This week an inquest into the deaths of the five men heard evidence from marine surveyor, Eoghan O'Toole from the Dept of Transport that the Tit Bonhomme was on its correct setting for Union Hall up until it was about half a nautical mile from Glandore ...
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Ireland does not do special deals on tax - Kenny
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta listen to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels today. Photograph: REUTERS/Francois ...
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EU report reveals long-term and youth unemployment problem in Ireland
Ireland continues to have the second worst long-term unemployment figures in the European Union. New figures from EuroStat show that the rate of long-term unemployment in Ireland in 2012 was 61.7%. That is compared to the EU average of 44.6%, and only Slovakia with a figure of 67.3% is worse.Alicia O' Rourke of the EU said youth unemployment in Ireland continues to be an ongoing problem.She ...
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Taoiseach We do not do special deals on corporate tax
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he will be making clear at a European Council meeting today that Ireland is not a tax haven.Mr Kenny is attending a summit of EU leaders in Brussels where tax evasion and fraud are being discussed.The meeting comes after the Apple Chief Executive, Tim Cook, told the US Senate his company had negotiated a 2% tax rate with the Irish Government.However the ...
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Court finds pair guilty of murder of Brazilian man in Kerry
Two men have been found guilty of murdering a Brazilian man and dumping his body in a north Kerry bog.The body of Bruno Lemes De Sousa was discovered in Shronowen Bog outside Listowel on March 11, 2012.Twenty-year-old John Paul Cawley and 29-year-old Wenio Rodriguez Da Silva - both with an address at 2 Ardoughter Ballyduff - were accused of murdering 28-year-old Bruno Lemes De Sousa, between ...
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Gallagher Only right and proper that EU recognises Irish language
A Fianna Fil MEP is welcoming efforts to support the establishment of an Irish-language version of the official European Parliament website.Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher has said the President of the European Parliament's position will reverse what he said was "a matter of discrimination" against the Irish language.The Parliament's website is currently produced in 22 out ...
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Order prohibiting naming of ex-priest lifted
A former priest who faces 34 charges of child sex abuse has no right to anonymity in court proceedings, a District Court judge has ruled. Bill Carney, 62, is accused of the indecent assault of eight boys and two girls between 1969 and 1989. A court order was granted prohibiting the publication of his name. That order was lifted today at the District Court in Cloverhill after an application by ...
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11 groups say defects in abortion bill
Up to 11 organisations have said that there are defects in the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013. The groups who are in favour of legislating for the X Case have said that defects in the bill may contravene the A, B and C decision at the European Court of Human Rights. The organisations which include the National Women's Council , Action on X and the Irish Family Planning ...
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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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