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Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Sex Killer Pleads Guilty
A Czech national has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping and murdering a Longford mother last year. David Brozovsky (aged 22) with an address at Grian Ard, Ardnacassa, Longford rap...
Sex Killer Pleads Guilty
A Czech national has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping and murdering a Longford mother last year. David Brozovsky (aged 22) with an address at Grian Ard, Ardnacassa, Longford rap...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Court Appearance Follows Pipe Bomb Find
A young woman (22) will come before a court on charges connected with the discovery of explosives. When police raided her home, two pipe bombs, a shotgun, ammunition and drugs were discovered and the...
Court Appearance Follows Pipe Bomb Find
A young woman (22) will come before a court on charges connected with the discovery of explosives. When police raided her home, two pipe bombs, a shotgun, ammunition and drugs were discovered and the...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Blaze Hit Trawler Probed
Marine investigators are today examining a fishing trawler that caught fire off the Donegal coast. A tugboat accompanied the vessel to shore at Killybegs on Sunday afternoon after Irish naval firefig...
Blaze Hit Trawler Probed
Marine investigators are today examining a fishing trawler that caught fire off the Donegal coast. A tugboat accompanied the vessel to shore at Killybegs on Sunday afternoon after Irish naval firefig...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Seat Belts 'Save' Kids In School Bus Crash
All six children onboard a Co Donegal bus that crashed this morning were uninjured - thanks in large part to all of them wearing seat belts. The bus, under contract to Bus Éireann, was involved in a...
Seat Belts 'Save' Kids In School Bus Crash
All six children onboard a Co Donegal bus that crashed this morning were uninjured - thanks in large part to all of them wearing seat belts. The bus, under contract to Bus Éireann, was involved in a...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Case Against Garda 'Death Driver' Adjourned
Legal arguments today saw the adjournment of a case against a garda officer involved in an incident in which a 24-year-old man died. Garda Damien Carey was in Dublin District Court, charged with havi...
Case Against Garda 'Death Driver' Adjourned
Legal arguments today saw the adjournment of a case against a garda officer involved in an incident in which a 24-year-old man died. Garda Damien Carey was in Dublin District Court, charged with havi...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Bomb Alert Hoax Chaos
Thousands of people were forced to flee a bomb alert in Dublin that later proved to be an 'elaborate hoax'. Large numbers of people had to be evacuated from the centre of Dublin city at the weekend. ...
Bomb Alert Hoax Chaos
Thousands of people were forced to flee a bomb alert in Dublin that later proved to be an 'elaborate hoax'. Large numbers of people had to be evacuated from the centre of Dublin city at the weekend. ...
Irish News, Jan 21, 2008
Maternity Care Set For Boost
A private medical group has announced plans to build a new women's, children's and maternity hospital in south Dublin. The new hospital, if approved by the planning authorities, will have the capacit...
Maternity Care Set For Boost
A private medical group has announced plans to build a new women's, children's and maternity hospital in south Dublin. The new hospital, if approved by the planning authorities, will have the capacit...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Psychiatrist Critical As Stab Attack Man In Court
A 31-year-old man has appeared before Limerick District Court on Friday morning, charged in connection with the stabbing of two doctors at a psychiatric hospital in the city on Thursday. Anthony McMa...
Psychiatrist Critical As Stab Attack Man In Court
A 31-year-old man has appeared before Limerick District Court on Friday morning, charged in connection with the stabbing of two doctors at a psychiatric hospital in the city on Thursday. Anthony McMa...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Judge Brands Bar Glasses 'Lethal Weapons'
A Dublin judge has called on the management of nightclubs to take steps to prevent their customers leaving with "lethal weapons" such as bottles. Judge Katherine Delahunt made the comments as she jai...
Judge Brands Bar Glasses 'Lethal Weapons'
A Dublin judge has called on the management of nightclubs to take steps to prevent their customers leaving with "lethal weapons" such as bottles. Judge Katherine Delahunt made the comments as she jai...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Teen To Face Murder Charge
A young teenager charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy outside a fast food restaurant in County Clare has been sent forward for trial in Dublin. Michael Doherty died in hospital after being stabbe...
Teen To Face Murder Charge
A young teenager charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy outside a fast food restaurant in County Clare has been sent forward for trial in Dublin. Michael Doherty died in hospital after being stabbe...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
One Dead In Limerick Crash
A man has been killed in a road crash on the N20 Cork to Limerick Road in Banogue, Co. Limerick this morning. The single-vehicle crash happened around 6am on Friday morning. The man was driving a va...
One Dead In Limerick Crash
A man has been killed in a road crash on the N20 Cork to Limerick Road in Banogue, Co. Limerick this morning. The single-vehicle crash happened around 6am on Friday morning. The man was driving a va...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Man Remanded Over Dublin Heroin Seizure
A 35-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with the seizure of €6.5 million of heroin in Dublin earlier this week. Michael Byrne, 35, from Old Tower Crescent, Cl...
Man Remanded Over Dublin Heroin Seizure
A 35-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged in connection with the seizure of €6.5 million of heroin in Dublin earlier this week. Michael Byrne, 35, from Old Tower Crescent, Cl...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Roads Closed As Building Collapse Threat Probed
An area of Dublin has been sealed off today due to the threat of a three-storey building in the North Circular Road area collapsing. Dublin City Council was alerted earlier this morning to reported '...
Roads Closed As Building Collapse Threat Probed
An area of Dublin has been sealed off today due to the threat of a three-storey building in the North Circular Road area collapsing. Dublin City Council was alerted earlier this morning to reported '...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Roscrea Crash Victim Named
Gardaí have named the man who died in yesterday's crash in Roscrea, Co Tipperary as James Gibbons, 27, from Newtownrahan in Tullamore, Offaly. Mr Gibbons died after the truck he was driving collided ...
Roscrea Crash Victim Named
Gardaí have named the man who died in yesterday's crash in Roscrea, Co Tipperary as James Gibbons, 27, from Newtownrahan in Tullamore, Offaly. Mr Gibbons died after the truck he was driving collided ...
Irish News, Jan 18, 2008
Prices Drop On New Homes
Some of Ireland's most reputable builders are cutting the prices of their new homes in order to boost sales. Abbey's group's Kingscroft group has reportedly instructed agents to cut prices on all fiv...
Prices Drop On New Homes
Some of Ireland's most reputable builders are cutting the prices of their new homes in order to boost sales. Abbey's group's Kingscroft group has reportedly instructed agents to cut prices on all fiv...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Le Pen Will Urge 'Non' Vote
Ireland is to get a dose of European-style far-right politics with a visit by French right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. He is intent on warning Irish voters that the country risks becoming "a l...
Le Pen Will Urge 'Non' Vote
Ireland is to get a dose of European-style far-right politics with a visit by French right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. He is intent on warning Irish voters that the country risks becoming "a l...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Cutbacks Hit Nurse Morale
Ireland's largest trade union has claimed that morale among nurses is at an all-time low. SIPTU - which represents a minority of nurses in the Irish health system - has said that ongoing cutbacks by ...
Cutbacks Hit Nurse Morale
Ireland's largest trade union has claimed that morale among nurses is at an all-time low. SIPTU - which represents a minority of nurses in the Irish health system - has said that ongoing cutbacks by ...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Deadly Road Toll Rises
Road crashes have again claimed lives with news that two people died in separate road accidents in Co Kildare and Co Tipperary. A 51-year-old man died in hospital in the early hours of this morning a...
Deadly Road Toll Rises
Road crashes have again claimed lives with news that two people died in separate road accidents in Co Kildare and Co Tipperary. A 51-year-old man died in hospital in the early hours of this morning a...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Alleged Sex Boss Held
The gardaí in north Cork have arrested a man as part of an investigation into organised prostitution. The 51-year-old was detained by detectives from the Criminal Assets Bureau at around 7.30am on Th...
Alleged Sex Boss Held
The gardaí in north Cork have arrested a man as part of an investigation into organised prostitution. The 51-year-old was detained by detectives from the Criminal Assets Bureau at around 7.30am on Th...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Irish Inflation Down - But Only Marginally
There was a slight fall in Ireland's inflation rate last month. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) report the official rate for December was 4.7%, compared to 5% in November. The CSO s...
Irish Inflation Down - But Only Marginally
There was a slight fall in Ireland's inflation rate last month. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) report the official rate for December was 4.7%, compared to 5% in November. The CSO s...
Irish News, Jan 17, 2008
Construction Pessimism Reaches High
A survey by the FÁS/ESRI has found the level of pessimism in the construction industry has reached depressingly high levels. The survey by the Economic and Social Research Institute found the number...
Construction Pessimism Reaches High
A survey by the FÁS/ESRI has found the level of pessimism in the construction industry has reached depressingly high levels. The survey by the Economic and Social Research Institute found the number...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Troubled Psychiatrist Drowned 'Anorexic' Daughter
A depressed psychiatrist who drowned her teenage daughter in the bath to, she believed, save her from 'a hopeless life of anorexia' has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Lynn Gib...
Troubled Psychiatrist Drowned 'Anorexic' Daughter
A depressed psychiatrist who drowned her teenage daughter in the bath to, she believed, save her from 'a hopeless life of anorexia' has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Lynn Gib...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
O'Donoghue Released From Prison
Wayne O'Donoghue has been released from prison after serving three years for the manslaughter of his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan. The 23-year-old, from Middleton, Co Cork, had been sentenced...
O'Donoghue Released From Prison
Wayne O'Donoghue has been released from prison after serving three years for the manslaughter of his 11-year-old neighbour Robert Holohan. The 23-year-old, from Middleton, Co Cork, had been sentenced...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Arrests Follow Dublin Heroin Seizure
Two people have been arrested following the seizure of €6.5 million of heroin by gardaí in Dublin. More than 30kgs of the drug were found in a van, which was searched in the Palmerstown area on Tuesd...
Arrests Follow Dublin Heroin Seizure
Two people have been arrested following the seizure of €6.5 million of heroin by gardaí in Dublin. More than 30kgs of the drug were found in a van, which was searched in the Palmerstown area on Tuesd...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Nurses Back On Offensive Over Pay
The Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association are to return their pay claim back to the courts. The combined group originally abandoned a campaign of industrial action last yea...
Nurses Back On Offensive Over Pay
The Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association are to return their pay claim back to the courts. The combined group originally abandoned a campaign of industrial action last yea...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Increase In Overseas Visitors To Ireland
The number of people visiting Ireland from overseas has increased by more than 70,000 over the past year, the latest figures from the Central Statistic Office have revealed. There were 569,300 overse...
Increase In Overseas Visitors To Ireland
The number of people visiting Ireland from overseas has increased by more than 70,000 over the past year, the latest figures from the Central Statistic Office have revealed. There were 569,300 overse...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Troubled Limerick Estate For Demolition: President
The Irish President, Mary McAleese, is formally launching proposals for the demolition of every house in the troubled Limerick estate of Moyross. The move is part of a 'vision document' put forward b...
Troubled Limerick Estate For Demolition: President
The Irish President, Mary McAleese, is formally launching proposals for the demolition of every house in the troubled Limerick estate of Moyross. The move is part of a 'vision document' put forward b...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
Government Makes Waves In Renewable Energy Sector
Andrew Parish, CEO of Wavebob Ltd, Ireland’s leading wave-energy development company, has hailed the Ocean Energy Initiative launched by Irish Energy Minister Eamon Ryan as the Government's most progr...
Government Makes Waves In Renewable Energy Sector
Andrew Parish, CEO of Wavebob Ltd, Ireland’s leading wave-energy development company, has hailed the Ocean Energy Initiative launched by Irish Energy Minister Eamon Ryan as the Government's most progr...
Irish News, Jan 16, 2008
DRD Minister Welcomes Increase In Roads Budget
The NI Assembly's Roads Minister Conor Murphy has welcomed the additional funds for roads maintenance announced as part of the outcome of the December in-year monitoring round. Murphy said: "Up to £...
DRD Minister Welcomes Increase In Roads Budget
The NI Assembly's Roads Minister Conor Murphy has welcomed the additional funds for roads maintenance announced as part of the outcome of the December in-year monitoring round. Murphy said: "Up to £...
Irish News, Jan 15, 2008
Ahern Meets With South African President
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has met with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria this morning on the second day of his visit to the country. Mr Ahern also met with the Deputy President of the coun...
Ahern Meets With South African President
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has met with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria this morning on the second day of his visit to the country. Mr Ahern also met with the Deputy President of the coun...
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Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:This evening will be dry. The rest of the night will remain dry with variable amounts of cloud and some clear periods. Light southwesterly winds. Minimum temperature 10 °C.
