Irish News for August 2010 : Page 4

Irish News, Aug 6, 2010
'Eradicate Threat' Call After Police Bombing
Republican terrorism from their dissident faction has to be tackled with a campaign aimed at "eradicating the threat". That's according to the Ulster Unionist spokesperson on policing matters, the ML...
Irish News, Aug 6, 2010
Dublin Childrens' Hospital Gains Approval
Paediatric care is in for a major boost with news that a long-awaited planning application for a new national children's hospital for Dublin are about to be submitted. The proposal is for the facilit...
Irish News, Aug 5, 2010
Feuding Limerick Gang Cash And Property Seized
Cash, Computers and documents belonging to members of a feuding gang have been seized in a number of raids yesterday. Gardaí revealed this morning that a search operation was conducted in Counties D...
Irish News, Aug 5, 2010
West Belfast Families Flee Alert
The latest in a long-running series of security alerts blamed on republican dissidents has led to about 100 families being forced to leave their homes last night. It happened after a suspicious car w...
Irish News, Aug 5, 2010
Castlerock Gas Tragedy Probe Renewed
Health and Safety inspectors returned to the seaside village of Castlerock in Co Londonderry this morning to resume their investigation into the deaths of two young men from Co Antrim who were found d...
Irish News, Aug 5, 2010
DART Tunnel Operations To Create Jobs
As many as 7,000 jobs are expected to follow news that four major international consortia have entered the pre-qualification phase in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement process for Irish...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
Govt Letting Callely 'Off The Hook'
Opposition party Fine Gael have accused the Government of letting Senator Ivor Callely 'off the hook' over accusations of expenses fraud. Fine Gael's upperhouse spokesman on Justice, Senator Eugene ...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
Mortgage Rise 'Unacceptable'
The two main Opposition parties have cricised Ireland's banks over their introduction of an increase in their variable mortage rate. This morning, Fine Gael Housing Spokesperson Terence Flanagan Ban...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
North Hit By Seaside Bomb Outrage
An undercar booby trap bomb has been found in the driveway of a soldier's home in Bangor, Co Down this morning. The device fell off the vehicle on Wednesday morning and was found by the officer and ...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
Radio Nova Back On The Airwaves
For the fist time in 15 years, Dublin radios will again be able to tune into the legendary station, Radio Nova. During the early 1980s, Radio Nova attracted almost 40% share of audiences, operating ...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
Castlerock Gas Tragedy Probed
People in a Co Londonderry seaside resort are struggling to come to terms with a double tragedy overnight after two teenagers were found dead in a holiday flat. Carbon monoxide was suspected after th...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
Unions To Meet HSE Management Over Cuts
Unions representing health workers are to meet again with Health Service Executive management this afternoon to discuss the effect of cuts on services. IMPACT, SIPTU and the Irish Nurses and Midwives...
Irish News, Aug 4, 2010
O'Keeffe Calls For Student's Support
The Minister for Enterprise has today urged the Union of Students of Ireland to get behind Government efforts to protect and create jobs. He was responding to a protest by the student group yesterday...
Irish News, Aug 3, 2010
Poll Reveals 'Hunger' For General Election
An opinion poll in the Irish Sun newspaper has revealed that a majority of voters want a general election before the end of the year. A majority of 59% said they wanted the Government to call a gener...
Irish News, Aug 3, 2010
Bid To Cut Church's Influence On Schools
A new report from the Republic's Department of Education has signalled a reduction in the amount of Irish schools to be under the direct patronage of the Church. The Tánaiste and Minister for Educat...
Irish News, Aug 3, 2010
Derry Barracks Blasted Overnight
A bomb blast has devastated the area round a Londonderry police station. The PSNI said two men, one armed with a gun, hijacked a taxi driver shortly before 3am this morning and that the bomb was load...
Irish News, Aug 3, 2010
USI 'Mutiny' Over Unemployment
A student representative body has staged a shipboard demonstration to highlight Ireland's high levels of unemployment among graduates due to the current recession. The Union of Students in Ireland (U...
Irish News, Aug 3, 2010
Armagh-born Gurkha Officer Buried
Lieutenant Neal Turkington - a Co Armagh soldier killed in Afghanistan - is to be buried in the local Kernan Cemetery shortly following a Portadown church service. The town came to a standstill this ...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
Three Die On Mayo and Waterford Roads
Three women have been killed in two separate road crashes in Mayo and Waterford over the weekend. In the latest incident, which took place shortly before noon on Saturday, a Polish woman and her teen...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
O'Rourke To Return With Silver Medal
Sprint hurdler Derval O'Rourke will arrive home from Barcelona later today with her European silver medal. The Cork born O'Rourke, 29, finished second in the 100m hurdles on Saturday night to win he...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
Remains 'Missing Dublin Man'
Gardaí forensic teams are to carry out DNA tests on a remains found in County Wicklow that are though to be that of a missing Dublin man. Paul Byrne, 21, was last seen in Kilmartin Green in Tallaght ...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
Adams Meets Loyalist Parades Group
There's to be a 'groundbreaking' cross community meeting over parades in the North today. Gerry Adams is to meet the North and West Belfast Parades Forum along with Gerry Kelly, the North Belfast Sin...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
Snooker Legend Laid To Rest
Twice world champion, Belfast-born Alex Higgins' funeral is taking place at St Anne's Cathedral Belfast today. He had been suffering from throat cancer for many years and died last weekend at his hom...
Irish News, Aug 2, 2010
Fermanagh Firm Builds Irish Fire Station
A border construction project is proving to be a blazing success for a Co Fermanagh firm that has just been appointed as the main contractor for a €3.7 million two-storey fire station in Monaghan Town...