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Gardai investigating death of man on bicycle
A man in his 80s has been killed in a road traffic accident in Co. Kildare. The man was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a car on the Dublin Road at Clane on Sunday afternoon. The driver of the car, reportedly in his twenties, attended Naas Garda Station for questioning but left the station on Sunday night without any charges being laid. A post-mortem is expected to be carried out on ...
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Kenny in U.S. promoting Ireland relations
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...
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Kevin OBrien says no specific plans against Pak spinner Saeed Ajmal
Irish all-rounder Kevin O'Brien, whose team will face Pakistan in the upcoming two ODI series at home, has said that Saeed Ajmal is a "tricky customer" as well as "one of the best spinners in the world", but have admitted that they have no specific plans on how to tackle Ajmal in the upcoming matches. The 29 year-old, who was also part of the side that knocked Pakistan out of the 2007 World Cup ...
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US drugmaker Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal
WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...
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Cancer facilities for the young still a scandal
Owen Smith , and others, for better facilities. A decade after I was there, another teenager in my position had to go through all the same obstacles in getting cancer treatment in this ...
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A strategy to stop suicide
More people die by suicide every year than are killed in road traffic incidents. But the quality of services provided to help vulnerable people are dreadfully inadequate and successive governments have failed to prioritise medical and social care. What is particularly disturbing is the high number of young men who take their own lives and the role that mental health issues, along with alcohol ...
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UPDATE 3-The Irish loophole behind Apples low tax bill
Tue May 21, 2013 9:19pm EDT By Tom Bergin LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. A U.S. Senate investigation revealed Tuesday that Apple, maker of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, channelled profits into ...
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Even Before Apple Tax Breaks Irelands Policy Had Its Critics
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Ireland Defends Tax Laws to Critics at Home and Abroad
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Almost 1m pay local property tax
The Revenue Commissioners are encouraging those who have yet to pay to file as soon as possible by logging on to revenue.ie, where their property ID number and PIN will be ...
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Government to tackle hospital waiting lists with €18m ‘intervention’ teams
The Department of Health yesterday announced plans for expert groups to carry out "interventions" in five hospitals around the country after figures were published showing significant leaps in patients' waiting times since the beginning of the ...
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Former Labour TD to stand in for press secretary
Ms Madden, a former 98fm and Newstalk journalist, was appointed deputy government press secretary on the nomination of Labour in April 2011, having previously worked for the party in a media advisory ...
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Banks’ pay savings proposals examined
He said it was not possible at this stage to reveal precise details of the savings, from 6 to 10 per cent, bar what had been put in the public ...
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The paradox of a running legend
If doctors ever get to dissect Jim McNamara's heart, they may discover that, like that of many great athletes, it's unusually large. But it would be no surprise if they also find a mysterious black stripe running across it, ...
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Revised proposals more than ‘tweaks’ to rejected deal
The revised Croke Park II proposals do not just represent a "tweaking" of the deal rejected last month. Neither are they a whole new blueprint for reducing the State's paybill drawn up on a blank sheet of ...
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Coillte harvesting rights protest walks planned
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett during a protest earlier this year against the sale of Coillte harvesting rights. He said it was clear that people cared about the sale of the country's natural resources. Photograph: Brenda ...
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Research reveals possible new way to diagnose autism early
Research attempted to make a link between a particular autistic behaviour - unusual gaze pattern - and the way that a child's brain develops in the first few years of its ...
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Abortion hearings show proposals need to be redrafted
Following the divergences in opinion among obstetricians and psychiatrists over the first two days of the hearings, it was hardly surprising that the lawyers, too, aired wide disagreements at the Oireachtas health ...
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Government will examine penalties for illegal terminations says White
Alex White, the minister of State at the Department of Health, says the Government will look at Section 19 of the proposed Bill. Photograph: Alan ...
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Shatter has shown contempt for democratic norms says FF
Mr Kenny said Alan Shatter made available information that was relevant in the case being made by Mr Wallace relating to discretion being used or not being used relating to penalty points. "During the debate I understand that Deputy Wallace could not recall that the incident had occurred," Mr Kenny added. "He clarified that fact the following ...
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CIE deficit would be €45m without assets sale and State help
The Cabinet yesterday discussed the troubled financial situation at the State transport company after Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar presented the report. Photograph: Dan ...
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Shatter’s qualified apology seen as acceptance he might have overstepped mark
Alan Shatter appeared to have drawn a line under the political row surrounding his disclosure of confidential information about Independent TD Mick Wallace last night when he made a highly qualified apology to ...
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Punishment for abortion in new Bill goes ‘significantly’ further than current law
Call for an extension of the right to conscientious objection in the Bill to include trainee doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others involved in assisting in an ...
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Peace studies centre opens at Queen’s
Former president of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari (centre) with Prof Hastings Donnan and Prof Tony Gallagher at the launch of the Institute for Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University Belfast yesterday. Photograph: Stephen ...
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Trawler tragedy survivor tells of boat’s last moments as skipper handed out life jackets
Michael Hayes, skipper of the trawler Tit Bonhomme. Mr Hayes (52) from Helvick Head, Co Waterford, and four of his five crew, all died when the trawler sank last year. Photograph: Niall Duffy/Marine ...
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Dublin and Cork are finally linked by motorway
The National Transport authority recently announced to Dublin news media that upgrades to the final stretch of motorway between Cork and Dublin will be opened in 2010, brining to completion a massive infrastructure investment.
The massive upgrade of 250 kilometers of motorway and highway between Dublin and Cork is almost complete, linking the capital with the second largest city in the country. Read more
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