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Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
SF Opposes Ritchie Calls For Police Primacy
Sinn Fein have condemned a nationalist call for the North's police to again run secret anti-terror operations. The party's policing spokesman was commenting in the wake of the SDLP leader Margaret Ri...
SF Opposes Ritchie Calls For Police Primacy
Sinn Fein have condemned a nationalist call for the North's police to again run secret anti-terror operations. The party's policing spokesman was commenting in the wake of the SDLP leader Margaret Ri...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
Bono's Daughter On Screen
Cameras start rolling this week on Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English feature, This Must Be The Place, which is shooting on location in Dublin for the next three weeks. The film star...
Bono's Daughter On Screen
Cameras start rolling this week on Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English feature, This Must Be The Place, which is shooting on location in Dublin for the next three weeks. The film star...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
Children Hit By Blast As Alerts Continue
There has been a bomb attack and a series of security alerts across the North over the weekend. The PSNI have condemned a no-warning bomb in Lurgan yesterday, which injured three children. A senior ...
Children Hit By Blast As Alerts Continue
There has been a bomb attack and a series of security alerts across the North over the weekend. The PSNI have condemned a no-warning bomb in Lurgan yesterday, which injured three children. A senior ...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
Omagh Bomb Families Press For Inquiry
Twelve years after the North's worst terrorist atrocity, the families bereaved in the IRA's Omagh bombing have revealed they are to raise their calls for a public inquiry in talks with the new Westmin...
Omagh Bomb Families Press For Inquiry
Twelve years after the North's worst terrorist atrocity, the families bereaved in the IRA's Omagh bombing have revealed they are to raise their calls for a public inquiry in talks with the new Westmin...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2010
Sisk Wins Co Dublin Warehouse Job
A contractor for a €6 million Co Dublin warehouse extension has been appointed. John Sisk and Son Ltd is the contractor appointed for the works involved with the construction of a 3,082 square metres...
Sisk Wins Co Dublin Warehouse Job
A contractor for a €6 million Co Dublin warehouse extension has been appointed. John Sisk and Son Ltd is the contractor appointed for the works involved with the construction of a 3,082 square metres...
Irish News, Aug 13, 2010
Dublin Drugs Bust Successful
Cocaine has been seized today as part of an ongoing operation targeting organised criminality in Dublin. Gardaí recovered the drugs with an estimated street value of €400,000 when members from the Or...
Dublin Drugs Bust Successful
Cocaine has been seized today as part of an ongoing operation targeting organised criminality in Dublin. Gardaí recovered the drugs with an estimated street value of €400,000 when members from the Or...
Irish News, Aug 13, 2010
Banks' Stop On Repossessions 'Not Automatic'
Last year's agreement by the main banks for a one-year moratorium on house repossessions will not automatically be renewed - instead it will be revised. Under proposed changes to its statutory code, ...
Banks' Stop On Repossessions 'Not Automatic'
Last year's agreement by the main banks for a one-year moratorium on house repossessions will not automatically be renewed - instead it will be revised. Under proposed changes to its statutory code, ...
Irish News, Aug 13, 2010
Prison Deal Halts Derry Protest
A so-called 'dirty protest' being staged by dissident republican prisoners at Co Antrim's Maghaberry prison has ended after three weeks of talks. At the same time, supporters of the dissident republi...
Prison Deal Halts Derry Protest
A so-called 'dirty protest' being staged by dissident republican prisoners at Co Antrim's Maghaberry prison has ended after three weeks of talks. At the same time, supporters of the dissident republi...
Irish News, Aug 13, 2010
Arson Likely In Belfast Club Blaze
Arson is suspected to be the cause of an early morning fire at a building in west Belfast. Five fire appliances attended the premises in Summerhill Road, Twinbrook after the alert to the blaze at 3.4...
Arson Likely In Belfast Club Blaze
Arson is suspected to be the cause of an early morning fire at a building in west Belfast. Five fire appliances attended the premises in Summerhill Road, Twinbrook after the alert to the blaze at 3.4...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2010
Mental Health Care 'In Crisis'
The Irish Republic's care of mental health patients has come in for fresh criticism as it emerged today that riot police are regularly drafted in to deal with an upsurge of violence in psychiatric hos...
Mental Health Care 'In Crisis'
The Irish Republic's care of mental health patients has come in for fresh criticism as it emerged today that riot police are regularly drafted in to deal with an upsurge of violence in psychiatric hos...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2010
Pharma Firm Set For €3.5 million Expansion
There's to be a large-scale redevelopment of a Cork pharmaceutical plant. Around €3.5 million is to be spent on a process building and store on a two-storey Wexport Ltd premises, at Little Island, Co...
Pharma Firm Set For €3.5 million Expansion
There's to be a large-scale redevelopment of a Cork pharmaceutical plant. Around €3.5 million is to be spent on a process building and store on a two-storey Wexport Ltd premises, at Little Island, Co...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2010
Rapist's Freedom Can's Be Halted: Ahern
A rapist is to go free shortly despite calls to revoke remission of the sentence of the sex offender. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has again stressed that he is not in a position to stop the rel...
Rapist's Freedom Can's Be Halted: Ahern
A rapist is to go free shortly despite calls to revoke remission of the sentence of the sex offender. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has again stressed that he is not in a position to stop the rel...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2010
Proposed House Price Database 'Confusing'
There is confusion today as to how a new Irish database to monitor market trends and house prices is to be established. Legislation announced yesterday hasn't fully outlined how data will be collecte...
Proposed House Price Database 'Confusing'
There is confusion today as to how a new Irish database to monitor market trends and house prices is to be established. Legislation announced yesterday hasn't fully outlined how data will be collecte...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2010
Man Guilty Of 'North' Transsexual's Murder
A man has been found guilty of killing a London transsexual sex worker who had family links to Belfast. Leon Fyle, 21, of Laleham Road, Lewisham, was found guilty of the murder of Destiny Lauren at h...
Man Guilty Of 'North' Transsexual's Murder
A man has been found guilty of killing a London transsexual sex worker who had family links to Belfast. Leon Fyle, 21, of Laleham Road, Lewisham, was found guilty of the murder of Destiny Lauren at h...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2010
North's Policing Board Boss 'Quizzed'
A property developer who is current Chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board is to be questioned by PSNI detectives called in by the NI Housing Executive to investigate a company called Big Pic...
North's Policing Board Boss 'Quizzed'
A property developer who is current Chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board is to be questioned by PSNI detectives called in by the NI Housing Executive to investigate a company called Big Pic...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2010
€190 Million Promised For Tourism
Around €190 million will be invested in upgrading and developing tourist facilities around various locations in the Irish Republic to kick-start the struggling sector. However, while the building tra...
€190 Million Promised For Tourism
Around €190 million will be invested in upgrading and developing tourist facilities around various locations in the Irish Republic to kick-start the struggling sector. However, while the building tra...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2010
Callely Handed Two Week Deadline
The under-fire Senator, Ivor Callely, has been given 14 days to explain his controversial expense claims by two separate Government committees. The Seanad Committee on Members' Interests and a Fiann...
Callely Handed Two Week Deadline
The under-fire Senator, Ivor Callely, has been given 14 days to explain his controversial expense claims by two separate Government committees. The Seanad Committee on Members' Interests and a Fiann...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2010
AIB Pay Staff Green Fees Despite Mortgage Hike
It has emerged the Anglo Irish Bank is to raise its variable mortgage rate despite offering to pay employees’ golf club fees and leisure club memberships worth millions of euro per year. In recent m...
AIB Pay Staff Green Fees Despite Mortgage Hike
It has emerged the Anglo Irish Bank is to raise its variable mortgage rate despite offering to pay employees’ golf club fees and leisure club memberships worth millions of euro per year. In recent m...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2010
Lucky Escape In Latest NI Bomb Bid
The intended target for what is thought to be the third attempted car bomb attack on security-related personnel in the past seven days is today lucky to be alive. A device was found in the Sweep Road...
Lucky Escape In Latest NI Bomb Bid
The intended target for what is thought to be the third attempted car bomb attack on security-related personnel in the past seven days is today lucky to be alive. A device was found in the Sweep Road...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2010
'Free To Air Sports' Face Gov Review
The Republic of Ireland's Minister for Communications has appointed an panel of consultants to review whether the current list of 'free to air' sports events should remain available only to freely air...
'Free To Air Sports' Face Gov Review
The Republic of Ireland's Minister for Communications has appointed an panel of consultants to review whether the current list of 'free to air' sports events should remain available only to freely air...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2010
Co Derry Gets Gas Appliance Warning
A gas safety warning has been issued following last week's double carbon monoxide poisoning tragedies. The Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) investigation into the deaths of two Newtownabbey teenag...
Co Derry Gets Gas Appliance Warning
A gas safety warning has been issued following last week's double carbon monoxide poisoning tragedies. The Health and Safety Executive (HSENI) investigation into the deaths of two Newtownabbey teenag...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Taoiseach Tells Callely 'Consider Position'
The Taoiseach has called on Senator Ivor Callely to "consider his position" over the ongoing expenses scandal he has become embroiled in. The call comes despite the release of a long awaited stateme...
Taoiseach Tells Callely 'Consider Position'
The Taoiseach has called on Senator Ivor Callely to "consider his position" over the ongoing expenses scandal he has become embroiled in. The call comes despite the release of a long awaited stateme...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Five Held Over Dissident Activity
A total of five arrests have been made as part of an operation investigating dissident activities in County Louth. Gardaí have revealed that as part of their ongoing investigation into the activities...
Five Held Over Dissident Activity
A total of five arrests have been made as part of an operation investigating dissident activities in County Louth. Gardaí have revealed that as part of their ongoing investigation into the activities...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Post Mortem For Sligo Assault Victim
A post mortem examination will be carried out today on the body of a 60-year-old man who died in hospital after being assaulted in Sligo town. Cyril Moran was assaulted at his home at River Road in t...
Post Mortem For Sligo Assault Victim
A post mortem examination will be carried out today on the body of a 60-year-old man who died in hospital after being assaulted in Sligo town. Cyril Moran was assaulted at his home at River Road in t...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Mallow Hospital Probed Over Care Concerns
A health watchdog has announced today it is to investigate Mallow hospital over allegations of poor care and safety concerns. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) announced today it is...
Mallow Hospital Probed Over Care Concerns
A health watchdog has announced today it is to investigate Mallow hospital over allegations of poor care and safety concerns. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) announced today it is...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
North-Born Police Mentor Dies In Afghanistan
A man from Co Tyrone - believed to be in his early 50s - has been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Foreign Office has confirmed that Ken McGonigle from Co Tyrone was working as...
North-Born Police Mentor Dies In Afghanistan
A man from Co Tyrone - believed to be in his early 50s - has been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Foreign Office has confirmed that Ken McGonigle from Co Tyrone was working as...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Stab Death Probed In Co Derry
A man in his early twenties has been detained close to the scene of a murder in Co Londonderry. It is understood he has been taken to Limavady PSNI station for questioning after the victim was stabbe...
Stab Death Probed In Co Derry
A man in his early twenties has been detained close to the scene of a murder in Co Londonderry. It is understood he has been taken to Limavady PSNI station for questioning after the victim was stabbe...
Irish News, Aug 9, 2010
Trinity Drama School Building 'Takes Off'
A new Dublin academy for the dramatic arts being funded by Ryanair's founder has this month moved a stage closer. After plans were approved in April, the work has now gone to the tendering stage with...
Trinity Drama School Building 'Takes Off'
A new Dublin academy for the dramatic arts being funded by Ryanair's founder has this month moved a stage closer. After plans were approved in April, the work has now gone to the tendering stage with...
Irish News, Aug 6, 2010
Watchdog Circles As Calley Pressure Mounts
Pressure is mounting on the embattled Ivor Callely as the Seanad watchdogs fast track their investigation into the growing list of fraud allegations against the Senator. This morning, the members’ in...
Watchdog Circles As Calley Pressure Mounts
Pressure is mounting on the embattled Ivor Callely as the Seanad watchdogs fast track their investigation into the growing list of fraud allegations against the Senator. This morning, the members’ in...
Irish News, Aug 6, 2010
Government 'Gets Rail' Over Meath Line
The much-anticipated Navan rail line will be built and open for business in 2016, despite a massive cutback in the Irish Government's spending. The Daíl Transport Minister has confirmed that the line...
Government 'Gets Rail' Over Meath Line
The much-anticipated Navan rail line will be built and open for business in 2016, despite a massive cutback in the Irish Government's spending. The Daíl Transport Minister has confirmed that the line...
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Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:Quite cloudy across all counties at first but a few late sunny spells most likely towards Down and Antrim. Clearer skes becoming more widespread later this evening and overnight. Minimum temperature 5 °C.
