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Irish News, Aug 17, 2011
Fuel Laundering Plant 'Decommissioned'
An illicit plant with the capacity to produce more than two million litres of fraudulent diesel a year and evade £1.3m in excise duty per annum has been uncovered by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in Co ...
Fuel Laundering Plant 'Decommissioned'
An illicit plant with the capacity to produce more than two million litres of fraudulent diesel a year and evade £1.3m in excise duty per annum has been uncovered by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in Co ...
Irish News, Aug 17, 2011
Derry Trains Curtailed
A complete refurbishment of the track between the up-and-coming border City Of Culture, Londonderry and the town of Coleraine - and onward to Belfast and Dublin - has been put back for at least five y...
Derry Trains Curtailed
A complete refurbishment of the track between the up-and-coming border City Of Culture, Londonderry and the town of Coleraine - and onward to Belfast and Dublin - has been put back for at least five y...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
RNLI Rescue Capsized Fastnet Yacht Crew
Twenty-one crew members have been plucked from a yacht that capsized off the Irish coast. The US-registered Rambler 100, which was taking part in the Fastnet Race, overturned nearly 16 miles from Bal...
RNLI Rescue Capsized Fastnet Yacht Crew
Twenty-one crew members have been plucked from a yacht that capsized off the Irish coast. The US-registered Rambler 100, which was taking part in the Fastnet Race, overturned nearly 16 miles from Bal...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
Man Charged Over Waterford Assault
A 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with a serious assault in Co. Waterford at the weekend. The incident happened in the centre of Dungarvan on Saturday. The man who was assaulted suffer...
Man Charged Over Waterford Assault
A 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with a serious assault in Co. Waterford at the weekend. The incident happened in the centre of Dungarvan on Saturday. The man who was assaulted suffer...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
MBNA Jobs At Risk
There are fears of the future of hundreds of jobs at the MBNA credit card company in Ireland. The firm's parent company, the Bank of America, has announced plans to exit its credit card business int...
MBNA Jobs At Risk
There are fears of the future of hundreds of jobs at the MBNA credit card company in Ireland. The firm's parent company, the Bank of America, has announced plans to exit its credit card business int...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
North's A&E Resources Back In Focus
With the 'temporary' closure of accident and emergency (A&E) facilities at Belfast City Hospital looming, the Stormont Health Minister Edwin Poots has again moved to assure stakeholders that his prima...
North's A&E Resources Back In Focus
With the 'temporary' closure of accident and emergency (A&E) facilities at Belfast City Hospital looming, the Stormont Health Minister Edwin Poots has again moved to assure stakeholders that his prima...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
Appeal Over Missing Man
Gardaí at Dundrum have an appeal for information about a missing man. Patrick Rochford, 69, who is from the Dundrum area, was last seen around 10pm on August 13 in the Kilmainham area of Dublin. He...
Appeal Over Missing Man
Gardaí at Dundrum have an appeal for information about a missing man. Patrick Rochford, 69, who is from the Dundrum area, was last seen around 10pm on August 13 in the Kilmainham area of Dublin. He...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
Daylight Belfast Mugging Shock
Belfast city centre's image has again been blighted by a violent incident with news today of a woman being mugged yesterday by two thieves. The PSNI said that she was approached by the two men at the...
Daylight Belfast Mugging Shock
Belfast city centre's image has again been blighted by a violent incident with news today of a woman being mugged yesterday by two thieves. The PSNI said that she was approached by the two men at the...
Irish News, Aug 16, 2011
Ryan Sheridan 'Rescues' Tennents Vital
Irish upbeat singer songwriter Ryan Sheridan has become the last minute announcement at the Tennents Vital gig after American new comers Foster The People pulled out this week. Ryan will join The Sc...
Ryan Sheridan 'Rescues' Tennents Vital
Irish upbeat singer songwriter Ryan Sheridan has become the last minute announcement at the Tennents Vital gig after American new comers Foster The People pulled out this week. Ryan will join The Sc...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
French Police To Visit Cork In Murder Probe
A team of French investigators will visit Cork next month in order to interview 30 witnesses as part of its inquiry into the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996. Ms Tosca...
French Police To Visit Cork In Murder Probe
A team of French investigators will visit Cork next month in order to interview 30 witnesses as part of its inquiry into the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996. Ms Tosca...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
Witnesses Sought After Temple Bar Assault
Gardaí in Dublin have appealed for witnesses to an assault in the city, which left a man critically injured, to come forward. The 26-year-old is believed to have been attacked by two men on Temple La...
Witnesses Sought After Temple Bar Assault
Gardaí in Dublin have appealed for witnesses to an assault in the city, which left a man critically injured, to come forward. The 26-year-old is believed to have been attacked by two men on Temple La...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
Remove North's Police Ombudsman: SF
A weekend newspaper report has put pressure on the NI Police Ombudsman's office after it outlined a number of criticisms over its performance. The draft Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) report, le...
Remove North's Police Ombudsman: SF
A weekend newspaper report has put pressure on the NI Police Ombudsman's office after it outlined a number of criticisms over its performance. The draft Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) report, le...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
Deadly Co Armagh Knife Attack Condemned
Three men are being questioned by the North's police about the murder of a 21-year-old man in Portadown on Sunday. Then victim was Marc Williamson, from the Richhill area of Co Armagh. He was stabbed...
Deadly Co Armagh Knife Attack Condemned
Three men are being questioned by the North's police about the murder of a 21-year-old man in Portadown on Sunday. Then victim was Marc Williamson, from the Richhill area of Co Armagh. He was stabbed...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
Derry Violence Flares After Peaceful March
The SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has said those responsible for serious trouble in the border city of Derry following the otherwise peaceful Apprentice Boys' march at the weekend are only disrupting t...
Derry Violence Flares After Peaceful March
The SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan has said those responsible for serious trouble in the border city of Derry following the otherwise peaceful Apprentice Boys' march at the weekend are only disrupting t...
Irish News, Aug 15, 2011
Overturned Bus Passengers Recovering
A double-decker bus overturned in Belfast on Sunday injuring around 30 people, including two children and a pregnant woman. Cutting equipment was used to free the badly injured driver from the bus an...
Overturned Bus Passengers Recovering
A double-decker bus overturned in Belfast on Sunday injuring around 30 people, including two children and a pregnant woman. Cutting equipment was used to free the badly injured driver from the bus an...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Tallaght Patient Died On Hospital Trolley
A man died while on a hospital trolley awaiting a doctor. Today, a verdict of death due to natural causes has been recorded after an inquest into the death of a patient at Tallaght Hospital Emergency...
Tallaght Patient Died On Hospital Trolley
A man died while on a hospital trolley awaiting a doctor. Today, a verdict of death due to natural causes has been recorded after an inquest into the death of a patient at Tallaght Hospital Emergency...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Fresh Appeal For Missing Teenager
Gardaí in Dublin have issued a fresh appeal for information about a teenage girl who has been missing since last month. Gugu Sibeko, 15, from Mulhuddart in Dublin has not been seen since July 17. She...
Fresh Appeal For Missing Teenager
Gardaí in Dublin have issued a fresh appeal for information about a teenage girl who has been missing since last month. Gugu Sibeko, 15, from Mulhuddart in Dublin has not been seen since July 17. She...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Stabbed Belfast Health Centre Worker 'Stable'
A 40-year-old woman who was stabbed more than 20 times in the Grove Wellbeing Centre on the York Road remains in a stable condition in hospital today. Staff and members of the public who were in the ...
Stabbed Belfast Health Centre Worker 'Stable'
A 40-year-old woman who was stabbed more than 20 times in the Grove Wellbeing Centre on the York Road remains in a stable condition in hospital today. Staff and members of the public who were in the ...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Red Tape Cut And Audit Threshold Raised
The number of businesses exempt from the requirement to hire external auditors to the maximum level permitted under EU law has been raised, a move that is expected to save Irish SMEs up to €5million p...
Red Tape Cut And Audit Threshold Raised
The number of businesses exempt from the requirement to hire external auditors to the maximum level permitted under EU law has been raised, a move that is expected to save Irish SMEs up to €5million p...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Derry Shooting Probed By North's Police
Derry police detectivs are appealing for information after an incident where shots were fired at a house in the Quarry Street area of the border city. It happened on the evening of Wednesday 10 Augus...
Derry Shooting Probed By North's Police
Derry police detectivs are appealing for information after an incident where shots were fired at a house in the Quarry Street area of the border city. It happened on the evening of Wednesday 10 Augus...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Fifth English Riot Victim Dies
A pensioner badly injured in the London riots earlier this week has now died taking the death toll to five in the violent disorder that continues to sweep across England. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68...
Fifth English Riot Victim Dies
A pensioner badly injured in the London riots earlier this week has now died taking the death toll to five in the violent disorder that continues to sweep across England. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68...
Irish News, Aug 12, 2011
Kelly's Eye Closes
A Belfast centenarian and life-long journalist has died. James Kelly, who was born in the Falls Road area in 1911, was regarded as a seminal figure within journalism in Northern Ireland and who virt...
Kelly's Eye Closes
A Belfast centenarian and life-long journalist has died. James Kelly, who was born in the Falls Road area in 1911, was regarded as a seminal figure within journalism in Northern Ireland and who virt...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
'Binned' Hospital Medical Records Found
Three investigations have now been launched into the discovery of private medical records of dozens of patients in a bin outside Roscommon County Hospital. The records are reported to have been found...
'Binned' Hospital Medical Records Found
Three investigations have now been launched into the discovery of private medical records of dozens of patients in a bin outside Roscommon County Hospital. The records are reported to have been found...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
Arrest Quickly Follows Belfast Stabbing
Police have moved fast and arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder in Co Down just over an hour after a woman was stabbed at a medical centre miles away, in north Belfast. The attack happene...
Arrest Quickly Follows Belfast Stabbing
Police have moved fast and arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder in Co Down just over an hour after a woman was stabbed at a medical centre miles away, in north Belfast. The attack happene...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
Man Released In Cork Arson Investigation
A man arrested in connection with an arson attack on the home of an elderly woman in Cork city last year has been released without charge. May O'Gorman, 87, was in her home in Murrough's Lane, off Bl...
Man Released In Cork Arson Investigation
A man arrested in connection with an arson attack on the home of an elderly woman in Cork city last year has been released without charge. May O'Gorman, 87, was in her home in Murrough's Lane, off Bl...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
Past Northern Murders In Focus
A new report has said that a young man shot dead by the British Army at the height of The Troubles in August 1971 was innocent. The PSNI's Historic Enquiries Team (HET) has said that the victim, Bill...
Past Northern Murders In Focus
A new report has said that a young man shot dead by the British Army at the height of The Troubles in August 1971 was innocent. The PSNI's Historic Enquiries Team (HET) has said that the victim, Bill...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
More Couples Seeking Marriage Counselling
A record number of couples are seeking marriage counselling services, the Catholic marriage care service, Accord, has revealed. The service revealed that 43,627 hours of counselling were provided to ...
More Couples Seeking Marriage Counselling
A record number of couples are seeking marriage counselling services, the Catholic marriage care service, Accord, has revealed. The service revealed that 43,627 hours of counselling were provided to ...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
Shot Man's Wounds 'Not Life Threatening'
A 35-year-old man has been shot twice in the leg inside a house in Twinbrook in Co Antrim on the outskirts of Belfast. A young girl and a woman were in the house in the Summerhill Drive area when the...
Shot Man's Wounds 'Not Life Threatening'
A 35-year-old man has been shot twice in the leg inside a house in Twinbrook in Co Antrim on the outskirts of Belfast. A young girl and a woman were in the house in the Summerhill Drive area when the...
Irish News, Aug 11, 2011
Alliance HQ Faces Strip-Search Protestors
Republicans have this morning staged a protest in support of prisoners at the Alliance Party headquarters in south Belfast. The Alliance Leader David Ford who is also the Justice Minister - and who w...
Alliance HQ Faces Strip-Search Protestors
Republicans have this morning staged a protest in support of prisoners at the Alliance Party headquarters in south Belfast. The Alliance Leader David Ford who is also the Justice Minister - and who w...
Irish News, Aug 10, 2011
Army Makes Safe Device In Dublin
An Irish Army bomb disposal team made safe an improved explosive device found in Finglas, Dublin last night. The device was found in Dunsink Lane around 11.25pm. The bomb disposal team was called by ...
Army Makes Safe Device In Dublin
An Irish Army bomb disposal team made safe an improved explosive device found in Finglas, Dublin last night. The device was found in Dunsink Lane around 11.25pm. The bomb disposal team was called by ...
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Ireland WeatherToday:A mostly cloudy day with outbreaks of rain, most persistent and occasionally heavy across southern and western counties this afternoon. Risk of low cloud and fog patches affecting the Down coast. Light winds. Maximum temperature 15 °C.Tonight:Continuing cloudy through the evening with further outbreaks of rain, the rain turning lighter and patchier from the south overnight. Winds remain light. Minimum temperature 8 °C.
