Irish News for November 2010

Irish News, Nov 30, 2010
Cowen To Face Tough Dáil Debate
The Irish Republic's leader, Brian Cowen will be taking questions in the Dáil today on the monetary bailout, in what is expected to be a tough day for the Government. A number of issues have been ra...
Irish News, Nov 30, 2010
Dermot Ahern Steps Down From Dáil
The Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, has revealed he will not be seeking re-election to the Dáil in the next election. Citing a "painful" medical condition as reason for his decisio...
Irish News, Nov 30, 2010
Keep Hands Out of Pockets In Snow - HSE
The Department of Health and Children are warning pedestrians to be extra vigilant while out walking in the wintry conditions, offering advise such as keeping your hands out of your pockets. The Dep...
Irish News, Nov 30, 2010
Ryanair Surprised By 'Flight Tax Scrapping'
Budget flyer Ryanair has been taken by surprise at the news that the Irish Republic's Minister for Tourism is advocating scrapping the controversial €10 travel tax. Mary Hanafin told Fáilte Ireland'...
Irish News, Nov 30, 2010
McGuinness Backs SF In South Antrim
A senior republican has been praising party colleagues as they launched the South Antrim Sinn Fein Assembly and council election campaigns. Martin McGuinness - the Deputy First Minister at Stormont ...
Irish News, Nov 29, 2010
'Exceptional Cold' Will Continue Through Week
The "exceptionally cold weather" is expected to continue through the week, according to a weather warning issued by Met Eireann this morning. The Irish weather agency said night-time temperatures wo...
Irish News, Nov 29, 2010
State Assets Being Considered For Sale
Ireland's state assets are being considered for sale to raise cash, according to the Minister of Finance. The news comes as the Government released the details of the €85 billion rescue package from ...
Irish News, Nov 29, 2010
Assured Beef Supplies To Boost North's Trade?
The National Beef Association (NBA) expects dramatic changes on the world market to drag the domestic multiple retail companies most anxious to secure regular access to assured supplies of UK origin b...
Irish News, Nov 29, 2010
Garda Injured Chasing Mugger
A member of the Gardaí has been injured in a car chase in County Offaly after a women was mugged on early Sunday morning. The incident began at around 12.45am on November 28 when a female in her 50’...
Irish News, Nov 29, 2010
Man Arrested Over River Road Shooting
A man is this morning being held in connection with a shooting incident in the River Road area of Dublin. The arrest is the first to be made in the case, which occurred in July of this year. During t...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
Minimum Wage 'Forced By IMF'
Green Party leader John Gormley has revealed the cut in Ireland's minimum wage was demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Speaking in the Dáil today, Mr Gormley said during an exchange with Fin...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
Up To 5cm Snow To Fall
Met Eireann have released a weather warning as biting cold sets to engulf Ireland this winter. From today and through the weekend, snow showers will affect north Connacht, Donegal and eastern counti...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
New Speed Camera Truck Attacked
One of the new mobile speed camera vehicles has been attacked in Dundalk this morning. An investigation has been launched into the arson attack, which took place at 4.45am this morning on the Dundal...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
North's Police Fire Shot To Quell Trouble
The NI police have fire a shot to halt a Co Armagh fracas - with two men arrested at the scene. The circumstances behind the single shot being fired by a police officer during the disturbance in Port...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
'Boys' To Pass Ardoyne On Derry Road
A loyal order feeder parade by the Apprentice Boys will be allowed to pass the nationalist Ardoyne shops on the main Crumlin Road in Belfast next weekend. However, a contentious lodge, the ABOD Ligon...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
North's Farm Payments 'Eclipse UK'
With a series of meetings due to be held in the New Year for farmers in the North to discuss the coming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a senior European Union official has been outlin...
Irish News, Nov 26, 2010
Top Unions To Meet IMF and EU Delegation
Officials from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions are to meet with members of the EU and International Monetary Fund this morning to voice their opposition to the Government's austerity plan. Union o...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Four Year Plan Still A 'Failed Policy'
The Irish Government's highly controversial Four Year Plan has been met with hostility by the State's leading unions, who claim the plan is no more than the continuation of "failed policies". SIPTU G...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Finglas Shooting Victims Were 'Set Up'
Gardaí in North Dublin say they have reason to believe that the two men shot in a Finglas petrol station were "set up". The victims, Mark Noonan, 23, from O'Devaney Gardens and Glenn Murphy, 20, from...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Donegal By-Election Underway
Voting has begun in the Donegal South West by-election, despite criticism over the election's timing and relevance. Polling stations opened at 7am and remain open until 10pm tonight. The Dáil seat w...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Cuts For North's Job Seekers Opposed
There's trouble brewing at the Stormont Assembly with an Executive Minister telling MLAs that he intends to oppose a reduction in housing benefit for those people who are on job seeker's allowance. T...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Tyrone Arrest Over Fuel Laundering
A border fuel laundering plant capable of producing over nine million litres of illicit fuel a year, evading almost £6 million, has been dismantled by the UK's HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). A man fro...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Derry DPP Meeting Abandoned
A District Policing Partnership (DPP) meeting in the North had to be abandoned last night after a protest by dissident republicans. About 50 people blew horns and chanted slogans at the meeting in De...
Irish News, Nov 25, 2010
Irish President In Old School Return
The Irish Republic's President, Mary McAleese has been welcomed to her home town by the North's Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane. She was greeted by the Stormont Executive Minister as she helped t...
Irish News, Nov 24, 2010
Other News In Briefs
Off Licence Restriction Passed By Councillors Dublin city councillors have passed a motion restricting the number of off-licences as part of a new development plan. The motion to prohibit further exp...
Irish News, Nov 24, 2010
Cowen Holds Onto Job After Meeting
Brian Cowen has survived a meeting between his party's most influential members, despite mounting pressure for him to step down as leader. During the meeting of the Fianna Fail Parliamentary Party o...
Irish News, Nov 24, 2010
Irish Credit Downgraded By Agency
Ireland's difficulties seem to worsen by the hour as Standard & Poor's announce they are downgrading the State's international credit rating and placing its banks on "CreditWatch". The news comes jus...
Irish News, Nov 24, 2010
Description Of Dempsey Office Vandal Released
A description of the man who vandalised the office of Transport Minister Noel Dempsey earlier this week has been released by Gardaí. Gardaí investigating the attack on the Minster's constituency off...
Irish News, Nov 24, 2010
Ruane Rages Over Loughinisland Decision
A republican member of the Stormont Assembly has been outraged by news of 'no prosecution' against a policeman over alleged involvement in the 1994 Loughinisland Pub Massacre. South Down Sinn Fein A...
Irish News, Nov 23, 2010
Hanafin May 'Throw Hat In Ring' For Taoiseach
The Irish Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin said she would throw her "hat into the ring" if or when a leadership contest against Taoiseach Brian Cowen begins. Ms Hanafin was quic...