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Boston cardinal skips commencement over Irish PMs role
BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has skipped Boston College's commencement because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports of a bill in his country that would allow abortion. A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during Monday morning's graduation ceremony. They held signs with messages that included: ...
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Judge tells teen drug dealer Plant flowers or risk jail
A young offender, who was caught with EUR675 worth of cocaine, has been told he must spend the next six months planting flowers if he wants to avoid a sentence.The 16-year-old boy had pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children's Court to possession of cocaine for sale or supply to another. He was caught with the drugs at Sundrive Road, in south Dublin, on July 18 last.The teenager had five prior ...
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Celebritys file accessed 80 times on Garda database
A celebrity was looked up more than 80 times on the internal garda database, it has emerged.The Data Protection Commissioner revealed a second high-profile personality had their file accessed 50 times on the Pulse system, with the details of another three personalities and a GAA star also checked for non-official police business.Billy Hawkes said the celebrities - who were recorded as witnesses ...
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Irish bank deposits drop 1.4 percent in April
DUBLIN | Mon May 20, 2013 12:23pm EDT DUBLIN May 20 (Reuters) - Deposits held by Ireland's locally-owned banks fell 1.4 percent in April, data from the country's finance department showed on Monday. Deposits at Bank of Ireland, permanent tsb and Allied Irish Banks Group fell by 2.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to 153.4 billion euros, the largest monthly fall in almost two ...
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Pilkington out of Ireland squad
Norwich winger Anthony Pilkington has been withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad, the Football Association of Ireland has confirmed. Pilkington scored for the Canaries in their 3-2 win at Manchester City yesterday, but because of a knee injury will not be fit for the friendly against England at Wembley on May 29 and the game against Georgia in Dublin on June 2, in preparation for the ...
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Universal Pictures set to film Dracula in Belfast
A film version of Dracula is to be made in Belfast. The Universal Pictures horror shoot will last from August to November. Production will be based in Belfast but will be filmed across other locations, Stormont's First Minister and deputy First Minister's office said.It will cover the story of the man who became Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania.The movie stars Luke Evans from Fast ...
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Dracula to be filmed in N Ireland
Belfast but will be filmed across other locations, Stormont's First Minister and deputy First Minister's office said.It will cover the story of the man who became Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania.The movie ...
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Hogan Revenue will pursue unpaid Household Charge fees
Revenue Commissioners will be pursue people who have not paid the Household Charge, Environment Minister Phil Hogan has warned.Minister Hogan was speaking as the final deadline for registering for the Local Property Tax edges closer. He insisted that funds raised by the Household Charge and Property Tax will go to local councils to help form their yearly budgets. Some 24% of people still have ...
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Charity blames Irish culture of humiliation for high rate of male suicide
A suicide charity is warning that the "culture of humiliation" in Ireland is pushing young men to take their own lives.Ireland has the fourth highest rate of suicide amongst young males in the EU.Turn the Tide on Suicide is now calling for a Suicide Prevention Authority to reverse this trend. The charity lists a number of risk factors including alcohol abuse, life events and mental ...
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Shatter I didnt use private information on Wallace driving incident
Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he discovered during a Garda briefing that Independent TD Mick Wallace was stopped for using a mobile phone while driving.Standing by his decision to use the confidential details during a televised attack on his political opponent, Mr Shatter insisted he had not abused his power."There's no question of me using private information," he ...
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Video Man dies after flat fire in Belfast
One man is threatening to lift the veil of secrecy that surrounds Coca Cola's 'secret formula' as he claims to publish a copy of the original recipe in a new ...
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Looted artifacts recovered from UK to go on display
Treasure hunters using metal detectors are believed to have been behind the removal of nearly 900 artefacts, including a bronze age axe and medieval coins, from Ireland that have now been recovered in the ...
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Shatter stands over decision to reveal incident
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at a memorial service for garda killed in the line of duty at Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photograph: Niall ...
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Government firm on working hours increase in pay talks
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 ...
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FNC Speaker Irish Counterpart discuss visa waiver for UAE citizens
WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 -- Mohammed Ahmed Al-Murr, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC) met today with Sean Barrett, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament (Dail) at the Secretariat General of the FNC, and discussed exempting UAE citizens from current visa requirements. Al-Murr affirmed that since the relations between the UAE and Ireland have reached an ...
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ICMSA puts cost of farming crisis at €1bn
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association has said the estimated cost of the weather and fodder crisis on farming will reach €1bn. ICMSA President John Comer said the estimate was very conservative and that the eventual cost might be greater. He said the effect of the weather on farming in the past year categorically satisfied any definition of a natural disaster. As such, he said, ...
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Church child protection watchdog calls for review
The Catholic Church's independent child protection watchdog has said that services provided to both the victims and perpetrators of clerical sexual abuse need to be reviewed. Ian Elliott, the chief executive of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, said that standards agreed with Church leaders in 2009 were in need of overhaul. Speaking to ...
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Loughborough University to establish a Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design
May 20 2013 By Isaac Ashe Loughborough University is joining forces with the Royal Academy of Engineering to establish a Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design. It has been selected, along with three other universities across the UK, to take part in the initiative. The four centres will form a national network to demonstrate and exchange best practice in teaching and ...
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Low number of prosecutions in clerical child abuse cases noted by report
Fewer than one in 12 priests accused of child sex abuse has faced prosecution, according to latest annual report of the Catholic Church's child protection watchdog published ...
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Cannes Atlas Takes on Colm Meaney-starrer A Belfast Story
German sales group Atlas International, one of the true Cannes' survivors, has boarded a pack of high-profile genre titles for its Cannes slate, including Irish ...
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Breaches of data protection across state agencies
The Data Protection Commissioner has discovered significant, widespread breaches of data protection law during an audit of how information from the Department of Social Protection is shared with other government ...
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Shatter told about Wallace incident during garda briefing on penalty points
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 ...
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Robert Fisk Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility
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 - ...
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Hayes Government may settle for less than €300m target in pay talks
Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said that the Government may lower its savings target for public-sector wages from EUR300m this year to EUR250m."We're not going to be doctrinaire about this," he said. "What we want to see is the saving of a billion euro by 2015, and we're looking at alternative proposals in the context of those talks, which would obtain those ...
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Number of abuse allegations against Catholic church increasing
There has been a slight increase in the number of allegations of abuse being reported to the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland. The group says 242 new allegations of abuse were reported to the Board between April 1 last year and the end of March this year. That is five more than what was reported to the group the previous year. Most allegations ...
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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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