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Cycleway for old rail way route between Glenbeigh and Renard in Co Kerry
The 26km route will run parallel to, but over, the Ring of Kerry roadway, offering spectacular views. The Department of Transport has allocated EUR50,000 towards the ...
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Drive to attract students undermines academic education says professor
Prof Richard Arum was speaking ahead of a keynote address he will give at the NUI Maynooth education forum today. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish ...
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Shatter novel prompts censorship reform
Alan Shatter 24 years ago when he was a backbencher has prompted him to transfer responsibility for censorship out of his department. A complaint to ...
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Fine Gael TD voices concern over Seanad abolition
Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell: "I would most certain ly urge caution until we have a clear and coherent overall vision of where we are going." Photograph: Eric ...
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Lesbian couples relationship plans put on hold by Northern Irelands gay adoption ban court hears
A lesbian woman seeking to raise a child with her partner has had their relationship plans put on hold by the ban on gay and unmarried couples adopting in Northern Ireland, the Court of Appeal heard ...
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Peter Mathews says Fine Gael gave committment to allow conscientious objection
Fine Gael TD said party signed up to international agreement last October as moral and ethics experts address TDs and Senators on conscientious objection to proposed abortion ...
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Time not right to sell Aer Lingus stake - Howlin
The Government does not think the time is right to sell its 25% stake in Aer Lingus, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said tonight. The Government said it would consider the sale of its remaining stake in the former State carrier two years ago. In its state asset sales plan in February last year it said it was determined to find a buyer once market conditions ...
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IMF says Ireland may exit bailout this year
Ireland has a good chance of exiting its bailout this year, the International Monetary Fund said this afternoon. It would benefit from more European support in cleaning up its indebted banks and the safety net of precautionary funding, the IMF said. In contrast to much of the eurozone, Ireland’s economy has expanded for much of the past two years, and the IMF kept its growth forecasts ...
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Irish school chairman resigns after complaints about pro-life leaflet
The chairman of a primary school in Dublin has resigned after being caught up in a controversy over the distribution of flyers advertising a pro-life event. Eddie Shaw stepped down from his post at the Harold School, apologizing for the fact that some young students were sent home with leaflets promoting the "Vigil for Life" on June 8. Shaw said: "I want to repeat my unreserved ...
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Exclusive - Forest mulls bid for Irish drugmaker Elan sources
, the specialty drugmaker that counts investor Carl Icahn as a major shareholder, is among a handful of companies interested in bidding for Irish drugmaker Elan Corp ...
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Two held over €150000 drugs seizure in Cork
They found 25 kilos of cannabis resin with a street value of EUR150,000 while in a follow up search of a house in the area, they found cannabis plants with a street value of ...
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Wind farm development process lacking transparency Martin says
Michel Martin: "There is an absence of a legislative framework to deal with the step change in technology and scale of development." Photograph: Alan ...
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EU asked for help in battle of fluoridation
Ms Pocock was representing her father the late Robert Pocock, a long-standing campaigner on the issue, who passed away unexpectedly less than two months ago. She told the committee residents of the Republic were the only residents of an EU state to be "mandatorily fluoridated by our ...
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Robinson and McGuinness see investment opportunities in Japan
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe joins First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness during a visit to the Titanic visitor centre in Belfast yesterday. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP ...
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Uncle says ‘parole or no parole the man should never have been walking the streets’
The length of the sentence is in some way "just incidental in the sense that he [Bayley] was the man that he was; he should never have been let out. So it doesn't really matter what amount of time [he got] . . . parole or no parole, the man should never have been walking the ...
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Poor professional conduct finding against paediatrician ‘unproven’ court told
A finding of poor professional performance against a paediatrician over an incorrect "tongue-tie" procedure on a young child in his care was unproven, irrational and disproportionate, ...
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Assault victim speaks of anger at attacker being ‘rewarded’ by reality TV show
Ciara Kiernan (18), who with her sister Sabrina Archbold (25) received a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to assault causing harm. Kiernan was taken to Paris as part of John Lonergan's Circus. Photograph: Collins ...
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Mother’s language is biggest single factor in primary absenteeism
Despite langauge spoken in the home being the biggest single factor assocaitied with poor school attendance among nine- year-olds, having an immigrant mother had a positive impact on ...
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Internet giants seek stay on order removing defamatory video
Today, Pauline Walley SC, for the student, said the defendants were continuing to treat her client as just one of the other billion internet users and not someone whom the court had found was clearly defamed. The defendants were operating in a parallel universe whereby they will only take down the material where they consider it to be unacceptable, she ...
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Alleged Irish-American mob boss ex-enforcer grilled about varying stories about gang killings
FILE - This undated file photo shown during court proceedings in the Miami Courthouse, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 shows John Martorano, who was questioned about his plea agreement in exchange for testifying against former FBI agent John Connolly. Connolly was accused of helping the Boston mob murder Miami gambling executive John Callahan in 1982. Martorano testified for a second day during the ...
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IMF praises Spain Ireland reforms but warns of risks
By Julien Toyer and Sam CageMADRID/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Spain and Ireland have made strong progress in fixing their economies but recovery will hinge on their capacity to clean up ailing lenders, create jobs and maintain investor confidence, the IMF said on Wednesday.Both countries were forced to seek international financial support after a decade-long boom fuelled by cheap credit ended abruptly ...
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Government shelves plan to sell Coillte harvesting rights
Peter Bacon found the sale would incur costs of EUR1.3 billion in profit flow and pension liabilities. In addition, Coillte would still be required to maintain forest ...
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Anti-abortion group seeks free vote for Fine Gael TDs
Fine Gael politicians are concerned over supporting the parliamentary party during the vote on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, according to the Pro Life ...
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Two men accused of Daniel McAnaspie murder blame each other for killing
The trial of two Dublin men accused of the murder of teenager Daniel McAnaspie, who was in the care of the State at the time of his death three years ago, has heard that each accused blames the other for killing ...
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English the long short and curly
Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language . One of the more fascinating details in which concerns the Old Testament, and a story about Abraham trying to find his son a ...
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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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