Irish News for October 2010

Irish News, Oct 29, 2010
Cannabis Worth €500k Seized In Wicklow
A cache of cannabis worth €500,000 has been seized in County Wicklow as part of an ongoing operation. Gardai from the Wicklow Division and Garda National Drugs Unit said this morning they have disco...
Irish News, Oct 29, 2010
Prosecutions Looming Against 'Subversive' Banks
Some of Ireland's top banking figures have been described as "subversives" while files against them are being prepared by Gardaí, the Dáil heard yesterday. During yesterday's second day of economic ...
Irish News, Oct 29, 2010
Adams Bids For Ballymurphy Inquiry
The Sinn Fein President has revealed what he claimed is new information on the British Army killings of 11 people in west Belfast's Ballymurphy in 1971. Calling for an investigation into the deaths t...
Irish News, Oct 29, 2010
DVD Company Ceases Trading
DVD rental company Chartbusters has confirmed it has ceased trading from today, Friday 19 October, with the loss of 87 jobs. It has closed all 16 stores and entered into voluntary liquidation. The a...
Irish News, Oct 29, 2010
Fresh Contractor Sought For Shannon Housing
Clare County Council confirmed its decision to terminate a contract with Paddy Burke Builders Limited for the completion of the Glaise na Rinne Affordable Housing Scheme in Shannon. The contract with...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
Back Bench Revolt Over Pension Cut
The Taoiseach could be facing a backbench revolt over a mooted cut to the sate pension, according to reports this morning. Brian Cowen yesterday said that "no vested interest", and "no section of ou...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
Mournes Helicopter Crash Injures Policemen
The Air Accident Investigation Branch has been informed after four police officers in the North were hurt today when a leased police helicopter involved in investigating a fatal weekend crash in the M...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
HSE Apologises Over Roscommon Case
The health executive has issued an "unreserved and unequivocal" apology to those involved in the Roscommon Child Care Case. The apology was directed at six children who were subject to "serious negl...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
Labour Launch Policy Blitz
The Labour party has decried their association with being a party without policy by launching a litany of ideas on how they'd tackle the economic crisis. Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, the party le...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
Ryanair Cuts German Flights By 30%
Budget airline Ryanair is to cut its flights to Germany by almost a third in response to the country's introduction of a flight tax. Under the coalition Government's new bill taxing air travel, Germ...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
Metro North Plan Approved
An Bord Pleanála have approved the Metro North rail link, expected to cost €3 billion. The new line will run from St Stephen's Green in the city centre to Swords in north Co Dublin and now faces fin...
Irish News, Oct 28, 2010
'No Significant Trouble' Overnight In North
The North's transport company, Translink has reiterated its earlier claim that the destruction of two buses during trouble in Rathcoole in Co Antrim over two consecutive nights has cost the company £4...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
We Are All In This Together – Taoiseach
In a candid address to the Dáil today, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said everyone will have a part to play in the forthcoming budgetary hardships, saying "we really are all in this together". Speaking t...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
Man Shot In Dublin At Weekend Dies
A man who was seriously injured following a shooting incident in Dublin on Sunday, has died in hospital. Robert Ryle, 30, from Ballyfermot Dublin was pronounced dead this morning at Tallaght General...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
€15bn Cut Will Affect Living Standards
The Taoiseach has admitted the Government's unprecedented €15 billion cut in spending over the next four years will affect living standards. Brian Cowen made the admission this morning after a two d...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
Two Teens Killed In Separate Collisions
Two teenagers have been fatally injured during two separate road collisions in Westmeath and County Cork. In the most recent incident, an 18-year-old male passenger of a car was killed after the car...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
PSNI Man Removed From Duty Over Cell Death
The death of a Northern man in police custody last year in Londonderry continues to be controversial with news that a police officer has been suspended over the death by suicide of republican John Bra...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
Rentals 'Sub-Standard', Says Donohue
Information obtained by Fine Gael Senator Paschal Donohoe indicates that of, the 19,800 rental properties inspected in 2009, a staggering 4,306 failed to meet minimum legal standards. Despite this, on...
Irish News, Oct 27, 2010
Damage From North's Rioting Tops £400K
It has been claimed this morning that the cost of replacing a bus taken from a female bus driver in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim and burned by rioters will be as much as £200,000. The woman was shaken but...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Belfast Murder Tried In Dublin Court
The case of a murdered Belfast taxi driver was today being tried in a Dublin Court under a rarely used cross-border anti-terrorist law. Gerard Mackin, 28, from the Whiterock area in west Belfast, has...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Man Killed In Ennis Crash
A man aged in his 40s has been fatally injured when his motorcycle was in collision with a motorcar in County Clare. Gardai in the area said they are appealing for witnesses into the fatal road traff...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Ireland 14th Least Corrupt Country
Ireland has finished in the top twenty countries least hampered by corruption in a survey published today. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International, placed Irela...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Bus Torched As Co Antrim Goes On Rampage
Vehicles have been high-jacked and a bus and a car burnt out during disorder in Co Antrim's Newtownabbey last night. In a repeat of incidents earlier this month in Carrickfergus where police drug rai...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Women Rescued From Human Traffickers In Dublin
Two women have been rescued by Gardaí during an operation tackling human trafficking in the Capital. As part of the operation, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau, working in co-ope...
Irish News, Oct 26, 2010
Man Arrested Over Wexford Hit And Run
A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with a hit and run incident that caused the death of a young Wexford student. Gardai investigating the fatal road traffic collision, which took place...
Irish News, Oct 25, 2010
Cabinet Meets To Discuss Budget
The scale of the Government's budget cuts is to be hammered out during today's cabinet meeting. Today's meeting is the first of two pre-Budget sessions where Ministers will begin to set out a 4-year...
Irish News, Oct 25, 2010
Four Dead During Weekend Car Carnage
Four people have been killed in separate road crashes over the Bank Holiday weekend. In County Wexford, a 20-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run incident on the Main Street in Gorey shortly af...
Irish News, Oct 25, 2010
Hunt On For Missing Teen Girl
A search has been launched into the disappearance of a teenage girl who has gone missing in Kilkenny. Faith Duggan, who is 14-years-old, went missing from her home in Pearse Street in Kilkenny City ...
Irish News, Oct 25, 2010
Northern MLAs Quarrel Over Cuts
As MLAs who want the impact of the UK's Spending Review lessened for the North were warned they are "living in cloud-cuckoo land", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has branded £4bn of NI cutbacks "unac...
Irish News, Oct 25, 2010
Man Shot In Ronanstown
A man is recovering in hospital after being shot in the Ronanstown area of Dublin on Sunday night. The 30-year-old man had just got out of a car onto the driveway of a house on Foxdene Park, Clondal...