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Irish News for June 2009
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Gangs Face Tougher Legislation
Sweeping legislation has been announced to tackle Ireland's gangs. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern published the Criminal Justice Amendment Act, which contains a host of increased powers giving Ga...
Gangs Face Tougher Legislation
Sweeping legislation has been announced to tackle Ireland's gangs. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern published the Criminal Justice Amendment Act, which contains a host of increased powers giving Ga...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Sister of Charity Nun Apologises To Victims
A nun has today apologised to children who were abused while under the care of the Sisters of Charity organisation. Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, who campaigns for social justice, is a member of the rel...
Sister of Charity Nun Apologises To Victims
A nun has today apologised to children who were abused while under the care of the Sisters of Charity organisation. Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, who campaigns for social justice, is a member of the rel...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Mentally Ill Man Given Life For Manslaughter
A man who killed a fellow inmate at Mountjoy prison while mentally ill has been sentenced to life. Stephen Egan, 25, of Belcamp Crescent, Coolock, Dublin, was jailed for the manslaughter of 20-year o...
Mentally Ill Man Given Life For Manslaughter
A man who killed a fellow inmate at Mountjoy prison while mentally ill has been sentenced to life. Stephen Egan, 25, of Belcamp Crescent, Coolock, Dublin, was jailed for the manslaughter of 20-year o...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Jail Population Far Below Euro Average
Ireland has one of the lowest rates of incarceration in Europe, new statistics have revealed. The figures released by European statistics company Eurostat show Ireland falls far below the European av...
Jail Population Far Below Euro Average
Ireland has one of the lowest rates of incarceration in Europe, new statistics have revealed. The figures released by European statistics company Eurostat show Ireland falls far below the European av...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Mortgage Value Dropping As Market Slows
News today that the value of outstanding mortgage loans fell by €18 million in May - as repayments accelerated ahead of the value of new lending - is being blamed on continuing low levels of activity ...
Mortgage Value Dropping As Market Slows
News today that the value of outstanding mortgage loans fell by €18 million in May - as repayments accelerated ahead of the value of new lending - is being blamed on continuing low levels of activity ...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Tesco To Extend Prices Cuts To Dublin Stores
The UK-based retail superstore Tesco has announced plans to slash prices at its Dublin stores over the next two weeks. The company has come under pressure to extend its price cuts throughout Ireland ...
Tesco To Extend Prices Cuts To Dublin Stores
The UK-based retail superstore Tesco has announced plans to slash prices at its Dublin stores over the next two weeks. The company has come under pressure to extend its price cuts throughout Ireland ...
Irish News, Jun 30, 2009
Proposed Sligo Road Schemes In Focus
It has emerged today that fresh concerns are being expresses over the proposed western by-pass of Sligo town. Ahead of a second public consultation, residents in the Strandhill Road Cumeen area have ...
Proposed Sligo Road Schemes In Focus
It has emerged today that fresh concerns are being expresses over the proposed western by-pass of Sligo town. Ahead of a second public consultation, residents in the Strandhill Road Cumeen area have ...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
€5bn Cuts To Come Next Year
An Irish economist is expected to deliver recommendations for €5 billion of the toughest spending cuts in the State's history tomorrow. Colm McCarthy will present the controversial plan to Finance M...
€5bn Cuts To Come Next Year
An Irish economist is expected to deliver recommendations for €5 billion of the toughest spending cuts in the State's history tomorrow. Colm McCarthy will present the controversial plan to Finance M...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
Opposition Call For Investigation Over Michael Shine
Labour and Fine Gael have today published a joint motion, calling for an investigation into the government's handling of disgraced Doctor, Michael Shine. Opposition parties are calling for a review o...
Opposition Call For Investigation Over Michael Shine
Labour and Fine Gael have today published a joint motion, calling for an investigation into the government's handling of disgraced Doctor, Michael Shine. Opposition parties are calling for a review o...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
Alternative Strategy To Tackle Cork Heroin Crisis
A taskforce tackling the growing use of the class-A drug, heroin, in Cork have put together a new strategy. The team have initiated a pilot community detox programme in a specific city area, which is...
Alternative Strategy To Tackle Cork Heroin Crisis
A taskforce tackling the growing use of the class-A drug, heroin, in Cork have put together a new strategy. The team have initiated a pilot community detox programme in a specific city area, which is...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
Economy Taskforce Appointed
The Taoiseach has appointed a special taskforce to turn around the economy. The taskforce has been set up to support the development of 'Smart Economy', pushing Ireland's credentials as a hub for in...
Economy Taskforce Appointed
The Taoiseach has appointed a special taskforce to turn around the economy. The taskforce has been set up to support the development of 'Smart Economy', pushing Ireland's credentials as a hub for in...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
Gardaí Scanners To Detect Road Tax Scammers
Gardaí have introduced a new technology in their fight against motorists driving without tax or insurance to aid detection. Specialist scanners will be installed in garda patrol cars which will autom...
Gardaí Scanners To Detect Road Tax Scammers
Gardaí have introduced a new technology in their fight against motorists driving without tax or insurance to aid detection. Specialist scanners will be installed in garda patrol cars which will autom...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
County GAA Player Dies In Weekend Road Carnage
A county footballer was one of five people killed on the roads in a slew of fatal collisions over the weekend. Ciaran Shannon, 37, from Annacurra in Co Wicklow, was on his way to Blessington to appea...
County GAA Player Dies In Weekend Road Carnage
A county footballer was one of five people killed on the roads in a slew of fatal collisions over the weekend. Ciaran Shannon, 37, from Annacurra in Co Wicklow, was on his way to Blessington to appea...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
EU Secretary To Visit Ireland
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will make an official visit to Ireland on July 7th and 8th, it has been announced Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said he was delighted Mr Ban was vis...
EU Secretary To Visit Ireland
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will make an official visit to Ireland on July 7th and 8th, it has been announced Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said he was delighted Mr Ban was vis...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
EC Funds Target Rising Sexually Acquired Infections
A surge in sexually transmitted infections around the border areas is to be tackled with new European Union funds. As news that the EU's INTERREG IVA programme for cross-border health and social care...
EC Funds Target Rising Sexually Acquired Infections
A surge in sexually transmitted infections around the border areas is to be tackled with new European Union funds. As news that the EU's INTERREG IVA programme for cross-border health and social care...
Irish News, Jun 29, 2009
Body Found In Blanchardstown
The body of a man has been discovered in Blanchardstown, Gardaí have revealed today. Officers in the area are investigating the circumstances surrounding the find, which is of the body of a man aged ...
Body Found In Blanchardstown
The body of a man has been discovered in Blanchardstown, Gardaí have revealed today. Officers in the area are investigating the circumstances surrounding the find, which is of the body of a man aged ...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Assault Death Accused Is Remanded
A 32-year-old man has been in Dublin District Court this morning (Friday) charged in connection with the death of a woman fatally assaulted last week. Tracey O'Brien, 31, with an address at North Cir...
Assault Death Accused Is Remanded
A 32-year-old man has been in Dublin District Court this morning (Friday) charged in connection with the death of a woman fatally assaulted last week. Tracey O'Brien, 31, with an address at North Cir...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Full Alert As Mayo Pipelaying Work Starts
A major security operation is underway today in Co Mayo as work on the contentious Corrib gas offshore pipeline enters its final stages. Tensions were heightened as the Solitaire, the world's largest...
Full Alert As Mayo Pipelaying Work Starts
A major security operation is underway today in Co Mayo as work on the contentious Corrib gas offshore pipeline enters its final stages. Tensions were heightened as the Solitaire, the world's largest...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Garda Road Death Case Reaches Court
The 18-year-old man charged with the manslaughter of a garda in Co Donegal in March after an incident involving a car has been bailed. Jamie McGrenaghan of Gortnacraw, Kerrykeel in Co Donegal was cha...
Garda Road Death Case Reaches Court
The 18-year-old man charged with the manslaughter of a garda in Co Donegal in March after an incident involving a car has been bailed. Jamie McGrenaghan of Gortnacraw, Kerrykeel in Co Donegal was cha...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Murder Accused Guilty Of Manslaughter
A jury has found two brothers who attacked a 30-year old man in Killarney two years ago not guilty of murder - but guilty of manslaughter. After a unanimous verdict, Shane and Gerard O'Riordan were r...
Murder Accused Guilty Of Manslaughter
A jury has found two brothers who attacked a 30-year old man in Killarney two years ago not guilty of murder - but guilty of manslaughter. After a unanimous verdict, Shane and Gerard O'Riordan were r...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Arrests Follow Drugs Bust
As part of an ongoing operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the Finglas area, Gardaí from the Blanchardstown and Finglas District Drugs Unit searched a house in the Lanesborough area of ...
Arrests Follow Drugs Bust
As part of an ongoing operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the Finglas area, Gardaí from the Blanchardstown and Finglas District Drugs Unit searched a house in the Lanesborough area of ...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Dublin Residents Paying Over The Odds
Living in the Irish capital is proving to be an increasingly bad deal financially. Although it is where most of the commercial and employment opportunities are accessible, people living in the Liffey...
Dublin Residents Paying Over The Odds
Living in the Irish capital is proving to be an increasingly bad deal financially. Although it is where most of the commercial and employment opportunities are accessible, people living in the Liffey...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
10 Jobs Lost As Irish Newspaper Closes Down
Ten journalists will lose their jobs following an announcement that Ireland's only Irish language newspaper, Foinse, has folded. Based in Connemara, Foinse is closing this weekend when its current co...
10 Jobs Lost As Irish Newspaper Closes Down
Ten journalists will lose their jobs following an announcement that Ireland's only Irish language newspaper, Foinse, has folded. Based in Connemara, Foinse is closing this weekend when its current co...
Irish News, Jun 26, 2009
Bord na Móna Workers Accept New Proposals
Workers at Bord na Móna have voted to accept new proposals from the company on pay and working conditions. More than 300 employees at four Bord na Móna sites in the midlands agreed to restructure pea...
Bord na Móna Workers Accept New Proposals
Workers at Bord na Móna have voted to accept new proposals from the company on pay and working conditions. More than 300 employees at four Bord na Móna sites in the midlands agreed to restructure pea...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
Boy And Girl Drown In Irish Rivers
A teenage girl and young boy have died in separate drowning accidents. In Co Down, ten-year-old Daniel Andre died in hospital after pulled from the River Bann. It is understood that he was in the ri...
Boy And Girl Drown In Irish Rivers
A teenage girl and young boy have died in separate drowning accidents. In Co Down, ten-year-old Daniel Andre died in hospital after pulled from the River Bann. It is understood that he was in the ri...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
Two Dead In Separate Tragic Traffic Collisions
Two people, including an 11-year-old boy have been killed in separate traffic collisions in the last 24 hours. In the first incident a young male cyclist, aged 11 years, was fatally injured when he ...
Two Dead In Separate Tragic Traffic Collisions
Two people, including an 11-year-old boy have been killed in separate traffic collisions in the last 24 hours. In the first incident a young male cyclist, aged 11 years, was fatally injured when he ...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
Unemployment Hits 10.2%
The number of people on the Dole has surged sharply reaching its highest rate in the past ten years, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office's. The National Household Surve...
Unemployment Hits 10.2%
The number of people on the Dole has surged sharply reaching its highest rate in the past ten years, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office's. The National Household Surve...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
Fifth Of Young People Can't Afford To Visit Doctor
A survey published today has revealed one in five young Irish people can't afford to pay for a doctor's appointment. The research published by the National Youth Council surveyed over 1,000 young peo...
Fifth Of Young People Can't Afford To Visit Doctor
A survey published today has revealed one in five young Irish people can't afford to pay for a doctor's appointment. The research published by the National Youth Council surveyed over 1,000 young peo...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
Man Missing From Home In Cabra
Fears are growing for the safety of a young man from Cabra in County Dublin who has been missing for over three weeks. Richard Walsh was last seen on the 3rd of June in Dun Laoghaire wearing a grey t...
Man Missing From Home In Cabra
Fears are growing for the safety of a young man from Cabra in County Dublin who has been missing for over three weeks. Richard Walsh was last seen on the 3rd of June in Dun Laoghaire wearing a grey t...
Irish News, Jun 25, 2009
No Firm Answers At Republican's Inquest
Police have yet to establish a motive for the murder of a Real IRA man almost four years ago, an inquest has heard today. Martin Conlon, who was abducted and killed in the Keady area in 2005, was a 3...
No Firm Answers At Republican's Inquest
Police have yet to establish a motive for the murder of a Real IRA man almost four years ago, an inquest has heard today. Martin Conlon, who was abducted and killed in the Keady area in 2005, was a 3...
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Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:A fine end to the day with some evening sunshine. It remains mainly dry overnight with a touch of frost or fog patches possible in places. However, cloud is expected to increase towards dawn with the odd light shower. Minimum temperature 2 °C.
