Irish News for August 2010 : Page 2

Irish News, Aug 23, 2010
Cross Border Power Inquiry Welcomed
There has been a warm welcome for the announcement of a public inquiry into a proposed cross-border electricity interconnector. Ulster Unionist MLA for Newry and Armagh, Danny Kennedy, said the annou...
Irish News, Aug 23, 2010
Galway New Builds Targeted By Thieves
Cheeky thieves are being sought by the police investigating criminal damage of more than €100,000 to vacant newly built homes in Galway. The incident occurred in mid August and saw 16 of the 18 vacan...
Irish News, Aug 23, 2010
Shock At Northern Teen's GAA Death
The Stormont Education Minister Caitríona Ruane has expressed her shock at the news of the sudden death of a young sportsman, named this morning as 16 year-old Patrick Dinsmore. The teenage GAA playe...
Irish News, Aug 23, 2010
'One Hundred Mornings' Wins Movie Award
An Irish-made film that enjoyed financial baking from the Irish Film Board (IFB) has been winning plaudits. Soon after the announcement of a US cinema release, Conor Horgan's One Hundred Mornings has...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
Father Guilty Of Raping Children
A Dublin court has found a father guilty of raping his two daughters and sexually abusing his son. The jury of eight men and four women at the Central Criminal Court, convicted the man, who cannot be...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
Man, 49, Injured In Sligo Assault
A man has been injured during an assault, after a dispute in County Sligo last night. Gardai in Sligo said they are investigating the "serious assault", which occurred at a walkway connecting Steven...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
Hotels Calls BoSI Closure 'Catastrophic'
The Irish Hotel Federation has said some 150 hotels may be under threat after a decision by Bank of Scotland to close its Irish operation. The bank, which announced its closure yesterday, currently p...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
Girls Outperform Boys In Leaving Cert
Irish girls have won the battle of the genders in the Leaving Certificate exams for another year. Data released today by the State Examinations Commission shows more girls passing than boys and also ...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
No Denial On Dissident Republican Talks
Not-so-secret talks may have been held between the UK Government and republican dissidents - or at least that's the interpretation being put on the latest development in a story first hinted at by a r...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
'Closed Session' Over NI Water Suspension
A dispute over a single controversial letter has emerged at the heart of a fast building 'scandal' surrounding the suspension of a top civil servant in the North. Now, the Committee for Regional Deve...
Irish News, Aug 20, 2010
Engineering Success At Bushmills
A 33-year engineer from Co Antrim, Allister Brown, has been chosen to represent Northern Ireland in the international finals of a prestigious Bushmills Irish Whiskey competition. The Lisburn man will...
Irish News, Aug 19, 2010
Cowen 'One Of World's Top Leaders'
Influential website, Newsweek, have identified the Irish Taoiseach as one of the top ten world leaders. Despite spending his tenure in two of the worst years in Ireland's recent economic history, the...
Irish News, Aug 19, 2010
Rasharkin Return Rerouted
NI's Parades Commission has down a swift 'about-turn' and accepted a revised application from a loyalist band for its parade through the Co Antrim village of Rasharkin on Friday evening. The virtual ...
Irish News, Aug 19, 2010
Fingleton Apologies 'Not Good Enough' Says Labour
Former Irish Nationwide chief Michael Fingleton has issued an unprecedented apology for his bank's role in the Irish banking crisis, but his lament has been rejected by a senior Labour TD. Speaking a...
Irish News, Aug 19, 2010
North Signs Up For Broadband Revolution
Consumers in the North are embracing the online world more than ever - according to new research from the UK's broadcast regulator, Ofcom. Despite full digital switchover not being due to take plac...
Irish News, Aug 19, 2010
Labour Call For Help Over Pakistan Floods
The Irish Labour party has called for more help to be given to the victims of Pakistan's floods. The United Nations said today more than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly thr...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Tighter Rules For Gov Jets: Fine Gael
Fine Gael have proposed a tougher set of standards for use of the Government jet after allegations of misuse surfaced this week. The Opposition's Transport Spokesman Simon Coveney said the new standa...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Sham Marriage Arrests Accelerate
A top Garda chief has revealed some 16 people have been arrested so far this year for involvement in bogus marriages. Chief Supt John O'Driscoll of the Garda National Immigration Bureau said there we...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Park Stab Teen 'On The Mend'
A teenager is recovering in hospital today after he being stabbed in a Dublin park in broad daylight. The 17-year-old was knifed in the back in Fairview Park at about 5.30pm yesterday. He was taken t...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Concern Over Maths Leaving Cert Results
This years Leaving Cert results are in, but for many math students, the day will be tainted as high failure rates in the subject have become the main talking point. Some 4,300 students failed the ma...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Developer Billed For Dublin Hospital Bid
A huge new medical facility in south Dublin could be open as early as 2013 - but there would be a 'cost'. As reported in brief on <A HREF= 'http://www.constructionireland.ie/construction_news.asp?new...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Top Man 'Suspended' In NI Water Probe
As news broke that the most senior civil servant in Stormont's Department for Regional Development (DRD) has been suspended pending an investigation into controversial events at NI Water (NIW), politi...
Irish News, Aug 18, 2010
Paris Prize For Millionth Dublin Cyclist
Dublin City Council has announced that the one millionth journey on a dublinbike has taken place since the project's launch last September. A statement from the Council this morning said that at 7.25...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
Three Killed In Cruiser Tragedy
Three men have died and one has been dramatically rescued after their cruiser fishing boat caught fire off the coast of County Cork yesterday evening. The 25-foot ship sank in the waters south of Rou...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
Irish Rail 'Aware Viaduct Fail Was Imminent'
An independent report into the collapse of a bridge on the main Belfast to Dublin railway line has claimed Irish Rail was aware the structure might fail, but did nothing. In August last year, the Mal...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
SDLP Leader Slammed For MI5 Comments
There has been an angry response to yesterday's call to give the North's police back its former lead role in intelligence gathering. Speaking after SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie claimed that MI5 shou...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
Defence Minister Remembers Loss Of Pilots
The Minister for Defence has today spoke of his "great sadness" at losing two Irish Air Corps pilots, as he releases his department's annual report. Tony Killeen TD, today welcomed the publication of...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
FG Warn Against Threat Of International Land Buyers
Opposition Party Fine Gael have warned that Ireland’s land is "not up for grabs" as international land buyers move in to buy up "large tracts" of Ireland's agricultural land. Fine Gael Agriculture S...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2010
PSNI Oversight Boss Quizzed On Land Deal
The man at the helm of the North's police oversight body has been at the receiving end of investigations this week. The Chairman of the NI Policing Board, Barry Gilligan, has gone voluntarily to a po...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
Police Appeal After Fatal Dublin Shooting
Detectives in Finglas have issued a description of a person they are looking for in relation to Saturday's fatal shooting incident at the junction of Barnamore Crescent and Saint Helena's Road, Fingla...