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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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LGI in hunt for O2 Ireland paper says
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 ...
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Ross ranks Bank of Ireland among best bets
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" ...
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Everything is very far from rosy in the garden
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 ...
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Wallace confirms gardai spotted him using phone while driving
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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Wallace confirms Shatter claim that Gardai showed penalty point discretion
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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Personal data about welfare claimants used inappropriately says data commissioner
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 ...
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Two men arrested in Kerins murder case
Two men were arrested by garda this morning in connection with the murder of former detective John Kerins at his Cavan home last ...
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Convert to the concept of human rights law now its champion
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 ...
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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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