Irish News for March 2014 : Page 5

Irish News, Mar 10, 2014
€15m Fund Announced For Vacant Homes
A €15m fund to bring vacant local authority houses back into use has been launched by Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O'Sullivan, TD. Local authorities have been asked to submit their proposal...
Irish News, Mar 10, 2014
Call For An End To Job Uncertainty At Elverys
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Jobs Dara Calleary has called on NAMA to give serious consideration to the bid by Elverys management to take over the retail chain. There are currently six parties interes...
Irish News, Mar 10, 2014
Taoiseach To Meet PM In London
The Taoiseach will travel to Manchester this afternoon to attend a civic reception hosted by Manchester City Council and to officially open phase 1 of the new Irish World Heritage Centre. The Centre ...
Irish News, Mar 10, 2014
Woman's Body Found In Dublin
A woman's body has been discovered in a house in Dublin. The body was found at a property on Woodlawn Park Grove in Firhouse at approximately 1.30pm on Sunday. The woman was pronounced dead at the s...
Irish News, Mar 10, 2014
Man Attacked In Dublin
A man is being treated in hospital after being stabbed in Dublin on Sunday night. The 29-year-old man was taken to the Beaumount Hospital following the attack which happened on Glin Road, Coolock. H...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
DAA Seeks Injunction Against SIPTU
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has been granted leave by the High Court to seek an injunction against the union, SIPTU, from taking industrial action at Dublin and Cork airports next Friday. In a sta...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
Man Dies After Being Attacked In Dundalk
A man who was attacked in a pub in Dundalk last weekend has died. Laurence Michael McGeown, 60, was assaulted on Friday night. Mr McGeown died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. He had bee...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
Council Threatens To Pay Less For Clamping Services If Targets Are Not Met
Dublin Bay North Labour TD Sean Kenny, a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, has commented on news reports that Dublin City Council has threatened to pay less for their clamping services ...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
Union Requests Urgent Meeting With Bristol-Myers Squibb Management
SIPTU has requested an urgent meeting with the management of Bristol-Myers Squibb following an announcement that the pharmaceutical company is seeking 30 redundancies at its manufacturing plant in Swo...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
EPP Congress Illustrates Benefits Of Electing A Strong Team
Fine Gael Wicklow TD and Candidate for Ireland South, Simon Harris, has said that the EPP Congress, which is being held in Dublin, illustrates the benefit of electing a strong team of Fine Gael MEPs t...
Irish News, Mar 7, 2014
Scorecard Of Firms Involved In PPI Mis-Selling Should Be Published - McGrath
The Central Bank should immediately publish the scorecard of the 11 firms involved in the mis-selling of payment protection insurance policies (PPI), according to Fianna Fáil's Finance Spokesperson. ...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Man Dies In Road Accident In Co Wicklow
A man in his 20s has died in a road crash in County Wicklow. The accident, between a car and a tractor, happened at Kilpipe near Aughrim, just after 9.30am on Thursday morning. The driver of the tra...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Two Dead In Fire In Co Galway
A man and a woman have died in a fire in County Galway. The blaze occurred on Station Road in Gort in the early hours of Thursday morning. The man, 38, and the woman, 65, were the sole occupants in ...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Critical Shortage Of Midwives - INMO
The results of a midwifery staffing survey, carried out by the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO) and released today, confirms the health service has a critical shortage of midwives in all of...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Three Released Following Post Office Robbery
Three men arrested in connection of a post office robbery in Roscommon have been released without charge. Two masked men, one believed to be armed, entered the premises at around 9.30am on Tuesday in...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Minister Urges Submissions On Effectiveness Of Garda Oversight Laws
Dublin Bay North Labour T.D., Sean Kenny, and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, is encouraging members of the public to make submissions on the effectiveness of the ...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Ten Food Premises Forced To Close In February
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reported that ten Closure Orders and four Prohibition Orders were served on food businesses during the month of February for breaches of food safety leg...
Irish News, Mar 6, 2014
Number Of Foreign Nationals Working Drops
24.1% of foreign nationals assigned PPS numbers in 2007 were employed five years later in 2012. The figure comes from an annual analysis of the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Social Protect...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Man Dies In Road Crash In Co Sligo
A man has been killed in a road accident in County Sligo. The victims' 4x4 vehicle veered off the road at Corballa and hit an embankment in the early hours of this morning. He was pronounced dead at...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Two Males Arrested Following Armed Robbery
Two males have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a chemist in Dublin. Two men, believed to have been armed with handguns, entered the premises at approximately 8.30pm on Tuesday ni...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Man Arrested Under 'Operation Muster'
A man has been arrested in County Tipperary as part of an "ongoing investigation into organised crime" in the south-east. Gardai detained 12 people in Kilkenny, Waterford and Tipperary following raid...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Irish Heart Foundation Issues Wake-Up Call To 'Social Smokers'
On Ash Wednesday, Ireland's National No Smoking Day, 5th March, the Irish Heart Foundation has issued a wake-up call to 'social smokers' that they can triple their risk of heart disease if they contin...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Gardai Appeal For Help To Locate Missing Woman From Carlow
Gardai in Carlow are appealing for help in tracing a woman who has been missing since January. Bernie Motley, 49, was last seen at around 3.40pm on 31st January on Montgomery Street. Gardai are appe...
Irish News, Mar 5, 2014
Increase In New MRSA Strains In Non-Hospital Environment
Microbiologists from the Dental School in Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with the National MRSA Reference Laboratory and Alere Technologies in Germany, have identified significant increases ...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
Tánaiste Condemns 'Aggression' By Russian Forces In Ukraine
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore T.D., strongly condemned the aggression by Russian armed forces in Ukraine and warned that the EU would impose sanctions if Russi...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
Two Arrested Following Post Office Robbery
Two men have been arrested in connection with the robbery of a post office in Roscommon. Two masked men, one of whom is believed to have been armed, entered the post office in Strokestown at approxim...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
FF Bill To Protect IBRC Mortgage Holders To Be Pressed In The Dáil
A Fianna Fáil Bill to protect the IBRC mortgage holders whose mortgages are being sold is to be pressed in the Dáil tonight and tomorrow during private members' time. If enacted, the Protection of Re...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
IFA Calls For Minister To Act On Beef Crisis
Addressing a major protest of beef farmers outside the Department of Agriculture today, IFA President Eddie Downey said Minister Simon Coveney's Food Harvest 2020 plan is failing beef farmers, who fac...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
Man Attacked In Co Louth Pub
A man has been attacked in a pub in Dundalk. The victim, in his 60s, received serious head injuries following the assault at a bar on the Castletown Road last Friday night. He is currently in Our La...
Irish News, Mar 4, 2014
Council Abandons Plans To Build Poolbeg Incinerator
Brian Stanley TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on the Environment, has welcomed last night's decision by Dublin City Council to abandon plans to build a waste incinerator at Poolbeg. He also called on the...