Irish News for February 2011 : Page 4

Irish News, Feb 11, 2011
QUB Students 'Rage Against RIR'
As the body of Royal Irish Ranger David Dalzell was flown home from Afghanistan this week, Sinn Fein has 'reacted with fury' to a Royal Irish Regiment recruitment stall being set up outside Queens Uni...
Irish News, Feb 11, 2011
Waterford Seniors' Home Opens
Some of Waterford's poorest residents have been handed a boost with the Little Sisters of the Poor - who have been caring for senior citizens since 1868 - celebrating their new St. Joseph's complex, c...
Irish News, Feb 11, 2011
Sandyford Retirement Village On Way
A large scale building project for a retirement village proposed for the foot of the Dublin mountains near Sandyford may be closer to development after a local authority meeting. Councillors in Dún L...
Irish News, Feb 11, 2011
Winter Hits North's Property Rentals
Anxiety over falling house prices, job security and obtaining an affordable mortgage continued to prop up rental values in Belfast in 2010. However, a new report also revealed that after the hefty 7%...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Six Die As Belfast Flight Crashes In Cork
A Manx-2 jet from George Best Belfast City Airport has crashed on landing in Cork in a tragedy that was reported just before 10am on Thursday. There were ten passengers and two crew members on board ...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
London, Belfast, Dublin And Cork Unite In Sympathy Over Crash
Messages of sympathy for the families of those killed and injured after a Manx2 commuter flight with 10 passengers and two crew on board crashed on the runway at Cork this morning have continued to fl...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Police Hunt Black BMW In Robbery Probe
The Irish Republic's police are looking for a car that is suspected of being used in an early morning robbery today. Gardaí at Ballinasloe, Co Galway are appealing for information regarding a black B...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Ó Cuív Denies Galway Military Downgrading
The Galway area will not loose large numbers from its Army base - despite rumours to the contrary. Minister for Defence, Éamon Ó Cuív has denied having any knowledge of plans to downgrade the army ba...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Viable Device Found In Belfast Mail Office
A device has been found during a security alert at the Royal Mail sorting office in Belfast's Tomb Street that police said was a "viable device". It has been removed for examination. The find was ma...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Longford's St Mel's To Rise Again
A chapel that was originally ruined by fire on Christmas Day 2009 is now set to rise from the ashes over the next five years as part of a multi-million euro project. The Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacn...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Larne Councillor Joins Alliance Party
Northern Ireland's 'middle-ground' Alliance Party has won a further recruit with news that an independent councillor in Co Antrim has joined. Michael Lynch is a councillor for the Larne Town area an...
Irish News, Feb 10, 2011
Drugs Bust Recovers Weapon
One man is in custody following a number of searches in the Inchicore area of Dublin 8 last night. Two houses were searched during a Gardaí operation and a quantity of cocaine and a firearm and ammun...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Queen's Visit To Be 'Sprung On Ireland'
This spring could see the first ever visit by The Queen to the Republic of Ireland. Discussions to set a date for the first visit by a British monarch are underway, with the Irish Times saying that a...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Ireland's Low Corporation Tax 'To Stay'
The Republic's Taoiseach has moved to assure representatives of US multinationals in Ireland and leading Irish businesspeople that the much-valued 12.5% rate of corporation tax will not change. As ...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Afghanistan Veteran On Rape Charge
A bomb-blasted former soldier has appeared in court in Belfast charged with rape and false imprisonment. Gerald Verner, 23, of Forthriver Park, who was deafened by a bomb in Afghanistan, is also accu...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Coast Guard Flies Into Paramedic Status
Medical standards provided by the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter Service have reached full Paramedic Level. The Transport Minister Pat Carey has confirmed that the standard has been upgraded from Emer...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Submissions Sought On Human Rights
Members of the public and interested organisations are being asked to highlight issues of concern regarding Ireland's human rights record. Ireland's Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht...
Irish News, Feb 9, 2011
Irish Made Movie Tops Helsinki Awards
An Irish funded comedy movie has picked up four prizes at the Jussi Awards in Helsinki. Directed by Dome Karukoskj, the film - Lapland Odyssey, which will screen in the upcoming Jameson Dublin Intern...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Gilmore And Martin Prepare To Face Off
The first live televised debate of the election campaign is being hosted by TV3 today, as Micheál Martin and Eamon Gilmore go head to head at 8pm this evening. Enda Kenny is still refusing to capitul...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Three Due In Court Over Drug Seizure
Three men arrested on Monday over drug trafficking offenses are due to appear in front of a Dublin court tomorrow. The men were arrested in Dublin in connection with the discovery of drugs in the Dub...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
PSNI Refute 'Community Policing Vacuum'
The North's police have rebuffed a claim of 'inertia in the delivery of effective, community-based police services' and hit back at an assertion that a policing vacuum is being filled by paramilitary ...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Irish Woman Killed During South African Robbery
An Irish woman has died after being attacked during a burglary in South Africa last week. Cecily Clark, originally from Shankill, Co Dublin, was killed and her husband was injured by a robber in thei...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Over 13,000 Had Energy Cut Off In 2010
Some 13,000 households had their electricity cut off last year representing a 30% rise on the previous year. Energy companies are to introduce a new wave of pay-as-you-use meters in thousands of hom...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
U-Turn Heralds Northern Tuition Fee Hike
Tuition fees for university students in the North are to rise - despite an earlier report that said they should be frozen - and has quickly led to accusations of 'elitism' from a senior figure in a ma...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Titanic Project Relived In North
One of the greatest engineering marvels to come from north of the border - The Titanic - will live again in Belfast with news that the City Council is to hold two months of events to mark the 100th an...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
Naas Fire Still Burning
Despite incessant attempts by a number of fire crews to contain it, the Kerdiffstown dump fire it still burning, three weeks on. Fire crews from four counties continued their fight against the landf...
Irish News, Feb 8, 2011
North's Vehicle Agency Gets Fixed Fine Role
The Stormont Minister responsible for vehicle licensing has introduced fixed penalties for transport offences - with his staff writing the tickets - rather than just the PSNI. Yesterday, the DUP Mini...
Irish News, Feb 7, 2011
Three Die In Irish Car Crashes
A man in his 50s has died in a car crash in Co Londonderry while two men have been killed in separate car crashes in Counties Louth and Cork over the weekend. The NI accident happened at Duncastle Ro...
Irish News, Feb 7, 2011
Gary Moore Dies On Holiday
The 40-year-long career of legendary Belfast blues guitarist Gary Moore ended last night, as he died in his sleep while on holiday. Robert William Gary Moore, 58, grew up off the Upper Newtownards R...
Irish News, Feb 7, 2011
North's Policing 'Left To The Paramilitaries'
Despite a concerted effort being made by the North's police force, 'inertia in the delivery of effective, community-based police services' has been blasted as having created a policing vacuum that is ...