Irish News for February 2008 : Page 6

Irish News, Feb 7, 2008
Walsh Heads Anti-Trafficking Group
An important job in the increasingly international battle to counter human trafficking was filled today. Marion Walsh - a former private secretary to a number of ministers for justice - took up her n...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
'Forced Labour' Worker Awarded €116,000
A Dublin restaurant has been ordered to pay a migrant worker €116,000 compensation for breaches of employment law. The worker told the Labour Relations Commission the Pakistani man was forced to work...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
News Brief
White Bid For Presidency Senator Mary White today announced her bid for the Irish presidency in 2011. A member of Fianna Fáil since 1983, she will be seeking the nomination from the Fianna F...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Man Found Guilty Of Clonakilty Murder
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his estranged partner, Rose Patterson. Hadim Kedik was found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women, at the Central Criminal Cour...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Gardaí Probe 'Drink Drive Culture' Among Foreign Nationals.
Gay Byrne, chairman of the Road Safety Authority has revealed the group is working alongside gardaí to investigate claims of a drink driving culture among foreign nationals on Ireland's roads. Mr B...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Four Arrested Over €10m Cannabis Raid
Gardaí have arrested four men following the seizure of €10.5m worth of cannabis in Co Kildare, this morning. Five hundred kilos of the drug were found in a car on the Naas Road and another 1,000 kilo...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Drugs Traffickers Linked To Costa Del Sol Murder
Spanish police probing the murder of Irish drug dealer Patrick Doyle believe it may be linked to a massive cocaine seizure on the Costa Del Sol. The discovery of almost €8m of cocaine, found hidden i...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Environmental Initiatives Showcased In Dublin
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will unveil over fifty environmental protection research projects at a conference in Dublin today. Among the presentations by national and international exp...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
'Student Support Bill Imperfect' - USI
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has hailed yesterday’s publication of the Student Support Bill as a major step forward – but called for centralisation of the grants system. The Bill responds t...
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Irish News, Feb 6, 2008
Study On Merits Of Underground Power Lines
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan has announced plans to conduct an independent study on power line infrastructure in Ireland. The national study will address...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
News Brief
Charity Warns Cancer Is On Rise Ireland faces an impending rise in cancer cases as the population ages. The Irish Cancer Society has warned of a major increase in the incidence of the diseas...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Ryanair Ordered To Pay Damages To French President
A French court has today ordered Ryanair to pay damages to the French President and his wife. The low-cost airline was ordered to pay damages of €60,001 to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife,...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Fresh High Court Action Over Tara Ruins
A Limerick man has today launched a new high court action aimed at protecting the Lismullin national monument near the Hill of Tara, Co Meath. Gordon Lucas is seeking to enforce EU environmental imp...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Government Grant for Orange Order
The Government has announced grants worth €250,000 to help fund the Orange Order in four southern border counties. A company, Cadolemo Ltd, set up by Orange lodges in Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim and Don...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Roscommon Man Convicted Of Raping Babysitter
A 58-year-old man has been convicted of raping a babysitter more than two decades ago. The jury, who returned an 11-1 majority verdict on day five of the trail at the Central Criminal Court, found th...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Spanish Police Probe Irish Drug Dealer Shooting
Police in Spain are investigating the murder of a man, believed to be a prominent Irish drug dealer, on the Costa del Sol. Patrick Doyle, from Dublin's inner city, was shot dead after the car in whi...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Advisory Body To Improve Broadband
Communications Minister Eamon Ryan today announced a new advisory body set up to look at improving Ireland's broadband infrastructure. The International Advisory Forum on Next Generation Broadband Ne...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
Hotels Group Launch Court Challenge On Wages
The Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) is to launch a court challenge today against the fixing of a statutory minimum wage for hotel workers. The case is being taken by Co Clare hotelier Michael Vaughan a...
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Irish News, Feb 5, 2008
New Streamlined Grants Scheme For Students
A bill has been introduced that will streamline the student grant application scheme to provide a single statutory basis for all claims. Publishing the Student Support Bill 2008, Minister Hanafin sai...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Court Orders Gilligan Property To Be Seized
The High Court has ordered the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to take possession of a house and an equestrian centre at Jessbrook owned by convicted drug dealer John Gilligan and his family. Mr Justice...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Irish Man Captured By Pirates
Six people, including an Irish man, have been seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The Irish chief engineer was one of six men on board the Danish-owned Svitzer Korsakov, when it was captured ...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Archdiocese To Co-operate With Inquiry
Bishop of Dublin Dr Eamonn Walsh has said the Archdiocese will co-operate fully with the Commission of Inquiry into clerical child sex abuse. Commenting on reports of a dispute - emerging after lawye...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Surgeon And Wife Guilty Of Insurance Fraud
A Co Meath consultant surgeon and his wife have been found guilty of defrauding two insurance companies through false breast cancer claims. Dr Emad Massoud (aged 52) and his wife Gehan Massoud (aged ...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Latvian Advertised For Trouble
A Latvian man has been given an 18-month suspended sentence and fined €300 after advertising his illegally held pistols in a newspaper. Pavels Samosjuks, who is living in Swords, placed an advert to ...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Brother Charged With Fatal Portumna Stabbing
A 45-year-old Portuguese man has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of his brother in Co Galway yesterday. Laurentino Da Silva was arrested shortly after a row at a house on Dominick St...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Shannon Reconnected
Air France's new twice-daily City Jet service between Shannon and Paris began operating today, with the first departure at 9.39 this morning. Local business and tourism authorities hope the flights c...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Underperforming Teachers Face Sack After 90 Days
Confidential proposals drawn up by the Department of Education outlines plans to sack underperforming teachers if they fail to improve within 90 days. Dismissal would be the most extreme form of puni...
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Irish News, Feb 4, 2008
Weekend Road Carnage
The Road Safety Authority has called for road users to exercise extra caution on the roads following this weekend's road carnage. Seven people have died in three separate accidents on Irish roads si...
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Irish News, Feb 1, 2008
200,000 Contraband Cigarettes Seized In Cork
Gardai and customs officers seized 200,000 contraband cigarettes in Cork yesterday. The cigarettes were discovered in number of operations. 60,000 smuggled cigarettes were found during a search of ...
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Irish News, Feb 1, 2008
News Brief
Kiely Inquest Adjourned The inquest into the death of a 15-year-old who died after being struck with a baseball bat in Dublin has been further adjourned. Rebekah Kiely from Carpenterstown died from h...
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