Robert Fisk Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility

The Independent - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the mainland in a month's time to teach the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ...

LGI in hunt for O2 Ireland paper says

TeleGeography - Monday 20th May, 2013

US-based Liberty Global Inc (LGI) is rumoured to be mounting a bid to take control of Irish mobile network operator O2 Ireland, owned by Telefonica of Spain, the Sunday Independent reports. To that end, the paper claims that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is involved in the process, while Telefonica's advisors are thought to include Citi ...

Ross ranks Bank of Ireland among best bets

RTE - Monday 20th May, 2013

US billionaire Wilbur Ross has said he ranks his investment in Bank of Ireland as one of the best he has made. The septugenarian took a 9.9% stake in the bank two years ago alongside a consortium of other US and Canadian investors. In total the group bought just under 35% of Bank of Ireland, keeping it out of public ownership. Asked in a Bloomberg TV interview what his "best bet" ...

Everything is very far from rosy in the garden

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Chelsea Flower Show, which is the World Cup of gardening, starts today. Bloom, the Irish garden festival, runs over five days around the June bank ...

Wallace confirms gardai spotted him using phone while driving

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...

Wallace confirms Shatter claim that Gardai showed penalty point discretion

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...

Personal data about welfare claimants used inappropriately says data commissioner

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes highlighted the need for additional resources for his office when he published his annual report for 2012 at Government Buildings today. File photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish ...

Two men arrested in Kerins murder case

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Two men were arrested by garda this morning in connection with the murder of former detective John Kerins at his Cavan home last ...

Convert to the concept of human rights law now its champion

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

He used to see it as a bourgeois tool for thwarting radical change, and once opposed the very idea of a Human Rights Act. "When I came to England, which is where I have worked all my professional life, I saw an extreme negative judiciary, reactionary and, among other things, anti-Irish," Prof Gearty ...

Cardinal boycotts Boston College commencement because Irish leader there abortion is issue

Canada.com - Monday 20th May, 2013

BOSTON - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is speaking at commencement ceremonies at Boston College on Monday, so Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Sean O'Malley is staying away. O'Malley objects to Kenny's support for legislation in his country that would permit abortion in Ireland. The leader of the Boston Archdiocese traditionally gives the benediction at Boston ...

KBC Bank Ireland to launch debit card

RTE - Monday 20th May, 2013

KBC Bank Ireland is to launch debit card services to its Irish customers later this year. It is joining up with MasterCard for the new service. The debit card will be accepted at over 33 million retail locations around the world, on the internet and at two million ATMs - wherever MasterCard is ...

Key talks on public service pay deal to resume

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission Kieran Mulvey: to brief Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin today on progress in the pay talks. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish ...

Irish funds steam ahead with yet another month of positive returns

European Pensions - Monday 20th May, 2013

Irish pension funds are continuing on their upbeat paths with the sixth consecutive month producing a positive performance, with an average 2.8 per cent return, says Rubicon Investment Consulting. The best performing fund was Irish Life Investment Managers, at 3.9 per cent, and Aviva Investors, although bottom of the table, still managed to return a positive 2.0 per cent for August. ...

Irish government releases hotly-anticipated report recommending Pensions Board merger

European Pensions - Monday 20th May, 2013

Merges between the Pensions Board and the Financial Regulator, and the Pensions Ombudsman and the Financial Services Ombudsman, have been recommended in the Irish government’s ...

Irish funds continue to record positive results

European Pensions - Monday 20th May, 2013

Irish pension managed funds have succeeded in another consecutive month of positive returns, according to both Hewitt Associates and Rubicon. ...

Rihanna blows her top over Northern Ireland T-shirt

Belfast Telegraph - Monday 20th May, 2013

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 26 September 2011 -International singer Rihanna pictutred this afternoon at a field near Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland where she was recording a video for one of her new songs.Mandatory credit:Picture by Stephen Hamilton/ ...

Locals asked to pay for road maintenance

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Local communities are to be asked to contribute up to half the cost of repairs to their roads, as part of a State-wide scheme being promoted by the ...

Suicide in pregnancy a real risk committee is told

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Fine Gael Jerry Buttimer, chairman of the Oireachtas health committee, which is today holding its second day of hearings on the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish ...

Oireachtas committee to continue abortion hearings

Irish Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Fine Gael Jerry Buttimer, chairman of the Oireachtas health committee, which is today holding its second day of hearings on the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish ...

Taoiseach to pick up honorary doctorate in Boston

Irish Examiner - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Taoiseach is to receive an honorary doctorate today from Boston College.Enda Kenny will also deliver the commencement address to 3,000 students graduating from the college this semester.Commencement addresses are usually attended by the Archbishop of Boston, in keeping with the college's Catholic roots, but Cardinal Sean O'Malley is boycotting the event.He says he is avoiding the ...

Irish funds back in the black

European Pensions - Monday 20th May, 2013

At last some positive news for Irish Pension funds, with Hewitt’s monthly Managed Fund Index reporting that the month of April 2009 returned 8.7 per cent. The global human resources services company released the monitor, which is an indicator of Irish Pension Managed Fund performance, which shows a continuing increase in returns, with March figures standing at 2.6 per cent. ...

Ireland granted further pension protection

European Pensions - Monday 20th May, 2013

Ireland’s defined benefit (DB) pension scheme members will gain further support with news that a new Pensions Insolvency Payment Scheme (PIPS) is to be introduced in the Social and Welfare and Pensions Bill 2009. Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin T.D., announced that the new development will assist employees and former employees of companies where the employer ...