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Garda Adrian Donohoes wife to receive medal in his honour
The wife of Garda Adrian Donohoe will receive a special medal in his honour today.Detective Donohoe was shot dead during the robbery of a credit union in Co Louth in January.Caroline Donohoe, who is also a Garda, will attend the commemoration at Dublin Castle with her two young children today.The Justice Minister Alan Shatter will present the medal to Mr Donohoe's family today at the ...
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Ulster Bank intervenes in Dunne bankruptcy case
Ulster Bank has intervened in the US bankruptcy of Irish developer Sean Dunne. The bank has claimed that Mr Dunne filed for bankruptcy in the US to avoid the application of Irish law to an Irish citizen for debts and obligations accumulated in Ireland. It maintains that every piece of real property and all bank accounts, with the exception of one with only $15 in it, are located in Ireland. ...
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Eurovision saves best for last as Ireland to close contest
Eurovision Song Contest final. For the first time this year, the running order was determined by the local Swedish television producers rather than by the artists drawing lots. It seems clear they felt that Ireland's infectious, upbeat ...
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French rugby invasion brings weekend cheer for Dublin tourism industry
Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar hosted a reception at Farmleigh today for the grand-slam winning Irish Women's Rugby team. Pictured at the end of a photocall with the Minister are, from right: Siobhan Fleming, Munster; Alison Miller, Connacht; Fiona Coughlan (capt) Leinster; Ashleigh Baxter, Ulster.Photograph: DAVE MEEHANFRIDAY 17TH MAY ...
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Man jailed for five years for ‘vile’ sexual abuse of young child
Jailing O'Brien, Judge Tom O'Donnell said the offences involved the "cold, cunning, systematic, premeditated, grooming and exploitation" of a child for the 43-year-old's own sexual ...
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€1m in withheld household charge tax to be repaid
Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan: has urged those who have still not paid the household charge, to do so before July 1st. Photograph: Dylan ...
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Gillian Anderson is fired up in The Fall but Whicher is suspiciously dull The former X-Files star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in Belfast
By Bernice Harrison I can't be only one who locked up the house a little more securely on Sunday night after the tense first episode of The Fall (RT One, and BBC One, Monday). It was the sight of the murderer sliding silently in through the kitchen window of the ordinary suburban house before heading upstairs to prep for his murder that did it. He was pretty ordinary, too, for a serial ...
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Enda Kenny’s political reputation at stake in abortion legislation’s safe passage
Taoiseach Enda Kenny speaking aboout the proposed abortion legislation before a recent Cabinet meeting. He has staked his political reputation on getting the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill passed before the summer recess. Photographer: Dara Mac ...
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Importance of proper archival catalogue of 19th century papers cannot be overstated
Irish archives have been in the news lately. Two important new websites have been launched in the last two weeks, both of them deploying images of primary source material, both of them free to access. The first is the innovative Century Ireland (rte.ie/centuryireland), a fortnightly online "newspaper" that will take us through the decade of centenaries with contemporary news reports ...
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‘In Ireland you are two steps away from having nowhere to live with just the clothes you stand in’
Anthony Crowley after eating his breakfast at the Capuchin Day Centre, is how much shoe leather you wear out. "When people are homeless they walk round and round in circles," he says. "They've nowhere to go. You see fellas with their shoes completely worn ...
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The high price Ireland pays for too many wild deer
Overbrowsing: we have introduced new species of deer to our native red and naturalised fallow deer, such as the herd in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Photograph: David ...
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Jail term of up to 14 years for a woman who has an abortion in Ireland ‘bizarre’
Peter Boylan said in his submission to the Oireachtas hearings that it was "bizarre and contradictory" to propose a woman be sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting medical advice in this State and having a ...
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Men and the art of car-wheel maintenance
Indeed, on a website I occasionally check for advice - The Art of Manliness, it's called - there is a lively discussion of this subject, with strong opinions on such sub-topics as whether you should mount your car on breeze blocks during the operation. Some contributors raise quibbling objections, eg that the car may slip off and kill you. But for the more hardline men, this would be ...
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Family Day presents chance to show all families are perfect it there is love
Paula Lonergan , of Family Day, now in its third year. "It's an opportunity for people going through difficult times to say it doesn't matter if you are a two-parent, a one-parent or a same-sex family, all families are perfect if there's love and support . . . I hope that doesn't sound too ...
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Super Simon Coveney earns the plaudits for marathon talks on fishing deal
Spain's Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias Canete (left) talks Simon Coveney at the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council at the EU Council in Brussels on Monday. Photograph: Geert Vanden ...
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Spectre of suicide haunts proceedings and is set for return
Most but not all of the concerns expressed related to the inclusion in the Bill of the threat of suicide as a reason for allowing a woman to obtain a ...
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Laois and Offaly I take it all back
But what, exactly, is so special about the rocks of Laois and Offaly, apart from their presence in the author's geological bailiwick? Most of Offaly, like much of the midlands, is covered by Lower Carboniferous limestone, and the older red sandstone of the Slieve Bloom uplands, straddling the two counties, takes even more dramatic form down in Cork and Kerry. There is, of course, the ...
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Man on suicide watch in prision found hanged Coroners court hears
There will be no prosecution arising from an incident in which a man accused of murder hanged himself in his cell shortly after a court ...
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Council chief sought two medical personnel
Medical council president Prof Kieran Murphy: not all psychiatrists worked in centres registered by the Mental Health Commission. Photograph: Eric ...
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A spirited rearguard action
Fine Gael politicians have been targeted in a well-organised and highly-orchestrated exercise and a number of TDs have threatened to oppose the legislation. Labour Party politicians are solidly in support. Michel Martin is withholding judgement until he sees the final shape of the Bill while Sinn Fin will impose a supporting whip. As happened with legislation dealing with contraception, divorce ...
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Nobody can say risk of suicide will never occur Oireachtas health committee hears
Suicide risk will be included in abortion legislation because it would be impossible to say such a situation could never arise, the State's chief medical officer has ...
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Government likely to face pressure to modify draft abortion Bill
The Government is likely to come under increased pressure to modify proposed legislation for abortion in cases of a threat of suicide after the master of one of the State's biggest maternity hospitals expressed concerns about its ...
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Shatter defends disclosing Wallace Garda information
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has defended stating publicly that Independent TD Mick Wallace escaped penalty points despite accusations that he abused Garda information for political ...
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Voices at the hearings
Master of the Rotunda Hospital Dr Sam Coulter Smyth arrives for the public hearings on the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013 at Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth ...
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Tour Northern Ireland wont have team for World Cup
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- It turns out Northern Ireland won't have its own team for the World Cup. A press release issued by the International Federation of PGA Tours last week during The Players Championship said that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each would be considered separate countries when the World Cup is played in November at Royal Melbourne under a new format. It ...
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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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