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Irish News, Oct 19, 2012
Majority In Favour Of Means Tested Child Benefit
A substantial seven out of 10 members of the public support means testing for child benefit payments, a new opinion poll shows. But the same poll also shows strong opposition to the introduction of t...
Majority In Favour Of Means Tested Child Benefit
A substantial seven out of 10 members of the public support means testing for child benefit payments, a new opinion poll shows. But the same poll also shows strong opposition to the introduction of t...
Irish News, Oct 19, 2012
Burnt Out Car Matches That Of Missing Irish Woman
Police in Wales searching for a missing Offaly vet have cordoned off a burned-out car found close to her home. 37-year-old Catherine Gowing has been missing since Monday when she failed to arrive at ...
Burnt Out Car Matches That Of Missing Irish Woman
Police in Wales searching for a missing Offaly vet have cordoned off a burned-out car found close to her home. 37-year-old Catherine Gowing has been missing since Monday when she failed to arrive at ...
Irish News, Oct 19, 2012
Quinns Due Back At The High Court In Dublin
Sean Quinn, his son Sean Jnr and nephew Peter Darragh are due back at the High Court in Dublin today. The three men face a further hearing regarding the decision in July that they breached a court or...
Quinns Due Back At The High Court In Dublin
Sean Quinn, his son Sean Jnr and nephew Peter Darragh are due back at the High Court in Dublin today. The three men face a further hearing regarding the decision in July that they breached a court or...
Irish News, Oct 19, 2012
Burton Announces Incentives For Employers
The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has urged employers to grow their businesses by taking people off the Live Register, saying there would be financial and tax incentives to do so. Ms Bur...
Burton Announces Incentives For Employers
The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has urged employers to grow their businesses by taking people off the Live Register, saying there would be financial and tax incentives to do so. Ms Bur...
Irish News, Oct 19, 2012
New Rules From Next Summer For New Drivers
From next summer learners and newly qualified drivers will be put off the road if they clock up just six penalty points. One of a number of new rules regarding new drivers the government has decided ...
New Rules From Next Summer For New Drivers
From next summer learners and newly qualified drivers will be put off the road if they clock up just six penalty points. One of a number of new rules regarding new drivers the government has decided ...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Two Arrested In Connection With Alan Ryan Shooting
Garda investigating the murder of senior Real IRA member Alan Ryan in Dublin last month have arrested two men. The men aged in their late 20s and 30s were arrested today (Thursday) and are being held...
Two Arrested In Connection With Alan Ryan Shooting
Garda investigating the murder of senior Real IRA member Alan Ryan in Dublin last month have arrested two men. The men aged in their late 20s and 30s were arrested today (Thursday) and are being held...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Suspended Sentence For Child Porn Convicted
A former carer who had been a corporal in the Defence Forces has been given a suspended jail sentence for possession of child pornography. 63-year-old Peter McEvoy, with an address in Drogheda, Co Lo...
Suspended Sentence For Child Porn Convicted
A former carer who had been a corporal in the Defence Forces has been given a suspended jail sentence for possession of child pornography. 63-year-old Peter McEvoy, with an address in Drogheda, Co Lo...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Sex Attacker Avoids Jail By Paying Compensation
A 29-year-old man who committed a violent sexual attack on a teenager he met in a chip shop has avoided jail on condition he pay €15,000 to the girl. Graham Griffiths told gardaí he felt he was “unde...
Sex Attacker Avoids Jail By Paying Compensation
A 29-year-old man who committed a violent sexual attack on a teenager he met in a chip shop has avoided jail on condition he pay €15,000 to the girl. Graham Griffiths told gardaí he felt he was “unde...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Garda Appeal For Help In Shooting Investigation
Gardaí investigating the murder of a 30-year-old man in Co Tipperary on Wednesday morning have appealed to the public for assistance as they try to trace a car used in the shooting. Shane Rossiter, f...
Garda Appeal For Help In Shooting Investigation
Gardaí investigating the murder of a 30-year-old man in Co Tipperary on Wednesday morning have appealed to the public for assistance as they try to trace a car used in the shooting. Shane Rossiter, f...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Ireland's First Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Protest In Belfast
Ireland’s first ever private abortion clinic opened in Belfast at 13.00 on Thursday, in the midst of almost 200 protesters. A spokeswoman for Marie Stopes said that the clinic, which provides abortio...
Ireland's First Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Protest In Belfast
Ireland’s first ever private abortion clinic opened in Belfast at 13.00 on Thursday, in the midst of almost 200 protesters. A spokeswoman for Marie Stopes said that the clinic, which provides abortio...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Poll Finds Fianna Fáil Making A Comeback
According to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll, Fianna Fáil has bounced back to become the second-biggest party in the State for the first time in more than two years,. Since its disastrous gene...
Poll Finds Fianna Fáil Making A Comeback
According to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll, Fianna Fáil has bounced back to become the second-biggest party in the State for the first time in more than two years,. Since its disastrous gene...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Solicitor Struck Off For Raiding Dead Clients Bank Account
A Kilkenny solicitor, who took more than €500,000 from the account of a dead client, has been struck off the roll of solicitors. At a hearing this morning, a Law Society Disciplinary Tribunal found P...
Solicitor Struck Off For Raiding Dead Clients Bank Account
A Kilkenny solicitor, who took more than €500,000 from the account of a dead client, has been struck off the roll of solicitors. At a hearing this morning, a Law Society Disciplinary Tribunal found P...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Arrest Made In €60,000 Cannabis Seizure
A man was being questioned by Gardaí in Cork last night following the seizure of drugs worth a suspected €60,000 in a house near Blarney, Co Cork. The man, understood to be in his early 30s, was arre...
Arrest Made In €60,000 Cannabis Seizure
A man was being questioned by Gardaí in Cork last night following the seizure of drugs worth a suspected €60,000 in a house near Blarney, Co Cork. The man, understood to be in his early 30s, was arre...
Irish News, Oct 18, 2012
Census Analysis Shows 400% Increase In Non-Religious
In the 20 years from 1991 2011 there has been a 400% increase in the number of people with no religion. 277,237 of the population (6%) now describe themselves as atheists or agnostics, according to t...
Census Analysis Shows 400% Increase In Non-Religious
In the 20 years from 1991 2011 there has been a 400% increase in the number of people with no religion. 277,237 of the population (6%) now describe themselves as atheists or agnostics, according to t...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Child Benefit Proposals Under Review
Comprehensive suggestions surrounding the issue of child benefit, including the introduction of a Scandinavian-style childcare system, will be considered by the government, Minister for Social Protect...
Child Benefit Proposals Under Review
Comprehensive suggestions surrounding the issue of child benefit, including the introduction of a Scandinavian-style childcare system, will be considered by the government, Minister for Social Protect...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Man Killed In Tipperary Shooting
A man has been murdered in a gun attack at a house in Co Tipperary. The attack happened around 06.45 on Wednesday morning when a gunman, and at least one other man, called to a house in the village o...
Man Killed In Tipperary Shooting
A man has been murdered in a gun attack at a house in Co Tipperary. The attack happened around 06.45 on Wednesday morning when a gunman, and at least one other man, called to a house in the village o...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Three Arrested In Connection with €100,000 Theft
Gardaí have arrested three people in connection with the theft of more than €100,000 in Co Cork at the weekend. Thieves broke into a house in the Kanturk area sometime between 14.00 on Sunday and 10....
Three Arrested In Connection with €100,000 Theft
Gardaí have arrested three people in connection with the theft of more than €100,000 in Co Cork at the weekend. Thieves broke into a house in the Kanturk area sometime between 14.00 on Sunday and 10....
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
6-Year-Old Disabled Boy Brings Court Against HSE
A severely disabled child with cerebral palsy has brought a High Court action over the circumstances of his birth at a Cork hospital. 6-year-old Gill Russell, Aghada, Co Cork, is confined to a wheelc...
6-Year-Old Disabled Boy Brings Court Against HSE
A severely disabled child with cerebral palsy has brought a High Court action over the circumstances of his birth at a Cork hospital. 6-year-old Gill Russell, Aghada, Co Cork, is confined to a wheelc...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Court Rules Hospital Can Transfuse Jehovah's Witness
The High Court has ordered that a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in need of urgent surgical treatment can receive certain blood transfusion products despite objections, on religious grounds, from h...
Court Rules Hospital Can Transfuse Jehovah's Witness
The High Court has ordered that a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in need of urgent surgical treatment can receive certain blood transfusion products despite objections, on religious grounds, from h...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Out-Of-Work Actor Pleads Guilty To Shop Lifting
An actor has pleaded guilty to stealing groceries saying that he did it because telling his three children that there was no bread and milk “was a step too far”. 57-year-old Joe Purcell of Donomore P...
Out-Of-Work Actor Pleads Guilty To Shop Lifting
An actor has pleaded guilty to stealing groceries saying that he did it because telling his three children that there was no bread and milk “was a step too far”. 57-year-old Joe Purcell of Donomore P...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Household Charge Letters Sent To Households Who Paid
Household charge warning letters seeking payment of €127 including a penalty for late payment have been sent to homeowners who have already paid the charge, the Local Government Management Agency has ...
Household Charge Letters Sent To Households Who Paid
Household charge warning letters seeking payment of €127 including a penalty for late payment have been sent to homeowners who have already paid the charge, the Local Government Management Agency has ...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Hotel Wins Water Injunctions Against Council
The tenants of a hotel in Co Wexford have secured a High Court injunction preventing Wexford County Council from turning off their water supply over a disputed debt of €140,000. Rusticford Ltd, which...
Hotel Wins Water Injunctions Against Council
The tenants of a hotel in Co Wexford have secured a High Court injunction preventing Wexford County Council from turning off their water supply over a disputed debt of €140,000. Rusticford Ltd, which...
Irish News, Oct 17, 2012
Sean Quinn's Son Loses Contempt Of Court Appeal
Sean Quinn Jnr has lost an appeal against his conviction and prison sentence for contempt of court. The son of Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn was jailed in July following a decision that he had bre...
Sean Quinn's Son Loses Contempt Of Court Appeal
Sean Quinn Jnr has lost an appeal against his conviction and prison sentence for contempt of court. The son of Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn was jailed in July following a decision that he had bre...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
Serious Flooding Warnings Issued
Serious tidal flooding warnings have been issued in Dublin amid predictions of heavy rain and strong winds. City officials have closed floodgates along the River Dodder in the Sandymount and Ringsend...
Serious Flooding Warnings Issued
Serious tidal flooding warnings have been issued in Dublin amid predictions of heavy rain and strong winds. City officials have closed floodgates along the River Dodder in the Sandymount and Ringsend...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
Taxpayers Funding Lucrative 'Golden Handshake' Payouts
Lump sum payments of more than €400,000 plus annual pensions of up to €125,000 a year are being paid to retiring hospital consultants, it is revealed today. The lucrative pensions and golden handshak...
Taxpayers Funding Lucrative 'Golden Handshake' Payouts
Lump sum payments of more than €400,000 plus annual pensions of up to €125,000 a year are being paid to retiring hospital consultants, it is revealed today. The lucrative pensions and golden handshak...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
€400,000 Spent On Travel By Welfare Staff
Over €400,000 of taxpayers money has been spent sending social welfare officials between Dublin and eight decentralised offices, the Irish Independent has reported. 620 Department of Social Welfare o...
€400,000 Spent On Travel By Welfare Staff
Over €400,000 of taxpayers money has been spent sending social welfare officials between Dublin and eight decentralised offices, the Irish Independent has reported. 620 Department of Social Welfare o...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
Online Referral System Could Cut GP Referrals By 20%
A new internet referral system, which allows GPs to put questions to a consultant about a patient through an electronic form, has the potential to cut unnecessary referrals by family doctors. The ref...
Online Referral System Could Cut GP Referrals By 20%
A new internet referral system, which allows GPs to put questions to a consultant about a patient through an electronic form, has the potential to cut unnecessary referrals by family doctors. The ref...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
Bankers Compared To 'Teenagers'
One of the countries most senior financial regulation officials has compared the bankers to the likes of troublesome teenagers. A director at the Central Bank, Fiona Muldoon told a conference of lea...
Bankers Compared To 'Teenagers'
One of the countries most senior financial regulation officials has compared the bankers to the likes of troublesome teenagers. A director at the Central Bank, Fiona Muldoon told a conference of lea...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
Stock To Be Destroyed in Abercrombie & Fitch Legal Case
US retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch has taken a small Irish shop to court for selling its clothes without permission, just days before it opens its flagship Irish store. Limerick District Court heard...
Stock To Be Destroyed in Abercrombie & Fitch Legal Case
US retail giant Abercrombie & Fitch has taken a small Irish shop to court for selling its clothes without permission, just days before it opens its flagship Irish store. Limerick District Court heard...
Irish News, Oct 16, 2012
€3m Additional Investment Announced For Garda Vehicles
Seán Kenny, the Dublin Bay North Labour TD, and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, today welcomed the announcement of a €3m additional investment in the Garda fleet. "I warmly welcome the...
€3m Additional Investment Announced For Garda Vehicles
Seán Kenny, the Dublin Bay North Labour TD, and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, today welcomed the announcement of a €3m additional investment in the Garda fleet. "I warmly welcome the...
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Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:Frequent, often heavy showers of rain, sleet and snow will affect most parts this evening and overnight, but are likely to be most frequent across the northeast. Minimum temperature -1 °C.
