Irish News for March 2012 : Page 2

Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
Gardai Investigate Fatal Crash On N24
Two cars were involved in a head on collision on Monday night around 22:40 on the N24 near Bansha, Co. Tipperary. The drivers of both cars, a female in her 20s and a male also in his 20s, were both f...
Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
Jail Time For Brothers In Cash-In-Transit Conspiracy
Two brothers who admitted conspiracy to steal from a cash-in-transit van will face jail time, the presiding judge has said. 39-year-old Alan Bradley and his 33-year-old brother Wayne were part of a s...
Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
GAA Club In Land Dispute With Church
A GAA club in Kerry has appealed to its local Catholic diocese to reconsider its plan to sell land adjacent to the club. The diocese shocked the local community when it announced at weekend Masses in...
Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
Staff Hold Sit-In Protests At Game
Staff of two Game stores in Ireland have begun a sit-protest over the shop closures. Games has 14 shops in Ireland and 263 in Britain all of which closed yesterday when the company went into administ...
Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
Gardai Station To Be Given Over For Community use.
Local communities could be given use of closed gardai stations, it was confirmed yesterday. Announced as the first closed Garda station leased to a local community was formally handed over in north D...
Irish News, Mar 27, 2012
BMW Recall Cars Over Fault In Boot.
Approximately 1.3 million BMW cars are being recalled due to a potential problem with a battery cable cover in the boot. About 8,500 Irish drivers are thought to be affected by the recall of 5-serie...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Ministers Cause Confusion Over Payment Of Household Charge
Confusion has arisen over payment of the €100 household charge as two senior cabinet ministers contradicted each other. Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan last night flatly contradicted a statem...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Further FF Resignations Expected
After Bertie Aherns Saturday night resignation more are due to follow in the wake of the Mahon tribunal report. Facing expulsion from Fianna Fail Ahen and John Hannon resigned on Saturday night. The...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Clamping Laws Set For Reform
Clamping laws could be overhauled under new proposals from a Dail committee. Politician are considering a new proposal that if a motorist returns to their vehicle before the clamping process is finis...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Taoiseach On Trade Mission To China
Following last months visit to Dublin of China’s leader-in-waiting, taoiseach Enda Kenny has begun a four-day trade mission to the country. Mr Kenny will attend a series of events focusing on trade a...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Salmon Fishing ban Should Be 'Reconsidered' Says Report
A new report has called for the ban of salmon fishing to be reconsidered. Looking at the survival of Donegal’s offshore islands the report claims scientists agree that there is now a surplus of wild ...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Limerick Family Forced To Leave
The family of a man shot dead last year by gangland criminals left Ireland yesterday to escape the threat from criminals in Limerick city. Roy Collins was shot dead in his casino in April 2009, four ...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Two Thirds Of Drugs User In Study Died Of HIV
Research published today has shown almost two thirds of intravenous drug users have died in the 25 years since they enlisted in a unique medical study. Doctors identified eighty-two users of intraven...
Irish News, Mar 26, 2012
Irish Tailor Loses Out To UK Fashion Label For Euro 2012 Suits
The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed that for Euro 2012 the ‘Boys in Green’ will be wearing suits supplied by new UK fashion label Chess London. The Football Association of Ireland...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Two Arrested In Connection With Ciaran O'Connell Murder
A gardai investigation into the killing of Ciaran O’Connell has led to the arrest of two men, both in their early twenties. O’Connell died on Wednesday after being assaulted at a St Patrick’s Day par...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Mixture Of Drugs Found In Musicians Body After Crash
An inquest heard yesterday how 51-year-old Shawn Scott Jones was intoxicated on cocaine, cannabis and alcohol when he narrowly missed a pedestrian before fatally crashing his car into a wall. Origina...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Mahon Tribunal Recommends New Financial Restrictions
The Mahon tribunal has recommended that courts should be allowed to ban members of the Oireachtas who are convicted of bribery from holding public office and to remove their pension rights. In a seri...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Conciliation Services Invite Accepted By Vita Cortex Workers
Vita Cortex workers in Cork have accepted an invitation from the Director of Conciliation Services at the Labour Relations Commission to meet in the dispute over redundancy payments. Kevin Foley issu...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Australian Firms Hopes To Recruit Irish Bus Drivers
Ventura Bus Company, operator of the bus service for one of Australia’s largest cities, is to offer Irish bus drivers the opportunity to move and work for them. The transport company is planning a re...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Report Declares "Endemic Corrution" In Irish Politics
The final report published yesterday from the Mahon Tribunal declared that corruption affected every level of government from cabinet ministers to local councillors during two decades of political dom...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Man Who 'Saw Red' Jailed For Five Years
A "a fit of temper and thirst for vengeance" that drove a father-to-be to deliberately knock a cyclist off his bicycle and then drive over him has been sentenced to five years in jail. Dublin Circuit...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Man Dies In Venezuelan Hotel Room
An as yet unnamed man has died in a Venezuelan hotel room when the cocaine filled condoms he was carrying in his stomach burst. It is believed the man in his early 30’s had links to a Co Sligo-based ...
Irish News, Mar 23, 2012
Ivan Yates To Leave Newstalk
Newstalk presenter, Ivan Yates, is planning to leave the breakfast radio show in order to concentrate on sorting out his personal finances. The broadcaster, former bookmaker and ex-minister is believ...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Galway Brothel Operator Sentenced To Four Months
A Romanian woman has been sentenced to three months in prison for operating a brothel in Galway city. 34-year-old Monica Ciuciu pleaded guilty at Galway District Court yesterday to acting or assistin...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Family Charged Over Primary School Knife Chase
The three people arrested yesterday in connection to an attack at a primary school have been named as Conor Mahon, 21, his wife Rose Mahon, 22, and her sister Laura Molloy, 21. Conor Mahon has been c...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
NCA Class AIB Charges An 'Insult'
Following yesterdays announcement by AIB bank that customers would need to maintain a balance of €2,500 for one quarter to qualify for free banking the National Consumer Agency (NCA) has said they wil...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Bookings Up For Irish Family-Owned Hotels
New figures released today show that bookings in Irish family-owned hotels have increased in the first two months of this year. Irish Country Hotels, a collection of 26 family-owned hotels in Ireland...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Mahon Tribunal Reveals Corruption
A report into the Republic's planning process has found that Bertie Ahern is guilty of not properly recording financial transactions, however he will not be charged with corruption. It is understood ...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Prison Escapee Sentenced To Four Months
A prisoner who escaped from jail 8 months into an eight year sentence over the death of a Garda officer has been sentenced to 4 months. Martin McDermott escaped from the low-security prison in Blackl...
Irish News, Mar 22, 2012
Fine Gael TD Receive Death Threats Over A+E Closure U-Turn
Fine Gael TD Frank Feighan has told TV3 News he was frightened to return to his home after being threatened with a “bullet in the head”. The threat came after he voted in favour of closing the A&E de...