Irish News for February 2013

Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
High Court Order Removal Or Road Laid Without Permission
The director of a waste management company and his wife have been ordered to remove a 1.6km road built from waste material, without planning permission, in a Special Area of Conservation. At the High...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
24-Year-Old Jailed For Burglaries At Homes Of Elderly
A man has been convicted over the burglaries at them homes of two elderly people, including the mayor of Ballinasloe. 24-year-old Niall Lynch, of Aonach, Ballinasloe, pleaded guilty before Galway Cir...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Child Porn Convicted Appeals Dismissal Decision
The Garda Commissioner’s decision to dismiss a Garda HQ employee after he admitted possession of child pornography has been reserved by the High Court. In 2010 Anthony Purdy admitted before Dublin Di...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Two Cork Men Jailed Over Two Attacks On Women
Two men have been jailed for a total of 19 years for a sexual assault on one woman and the robbery of another on the same night in Cork city. Colin O’Sullivan, 20, of Highfield Crescent, Kanturk, and...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Banker's Bonuses Capped In New EU Deal
Bankers' bonuses could be capped as early as next year, following an Irish-brokered EU deal. Welcoming the deal Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said he was proud the breakthrough had been made du...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Gort-To-Tuam Motorway Gets The Go-Ahead
The construction of the €550 million Gort-to-Tuam motorway in Co Galway, which has been given final clearance by Government, is expected to create hundreds of jobs. The National Roads Authority (NRA)...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Two Arrested In ATM Fraud Investigation
Two men have been arrested in connection with ATM fraud following a garda investigation in Co Kildare. The investigation concerned incidents of suspected ATM skimming, where hidden or obscured device...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
Two Hoax Devices Recovered In Limerick
Two hoax devices have been recovered during a search of a residence in Limerick on Wednesday night. Two suspect devices were found during the search of a residence on Maiden Street, Newcastle West, s...
Irish News, Feb 28, 2013
HSE To Publish Details Of Regional Plans
Details of regional spending and savings in four of the Health Service Executive’s main service areas are due to be published. The HSE areas are Dublin Mid-Leinster, Dublin North East, South and West...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Three Arrested In Connection With Christopher Warren Death
Garda investigating the death of a man in Dublin in December have arrested three men. Christopher Warren (36) was shot near Phibsboro and died after being dumped at St James’s Hospital on the evening...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
EU Block Ryanair In Third Attempt To Buy Aer Lingus
Ryanair’s third attempt to buy Aer Lingues has again been blocked by European Union antitrust regulators. Following the Eu executive vetoing the airlines first attempt in 2009, the regulator have aga...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Ulster Bank Admit Mortgage Error
Ulster Bank has issued an apology after 1,000 customers were put on the incorrect mortgage. Mortgage customers had been given the option to pay only the interest and not the capitol on their loans fo...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Unemployment Falls For First Time Since 2008
The number of people in employment rose by 1,200 in 2012, the first increase since 2008. The Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) Quarterly National Household Survey for the fourth quarter of 2012 revea...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Govt Stop Mobility Allowance With Immediate Effect
Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant schemes will stop with immediate effect, the government have announced. The decision follows recent reports from the Ombudsman, which said by the ...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
AHCPS Urge No Vote On Croke Park Ballot
Union members are being urged to vote no in the ballot on new Croke Park Agreement proposals. The Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants is to recommend a no vote on the proposals, a decisio...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Supreme Court Hears Argument For Suicide Law
It would be possible to design legislation to allow the terminally ill to end their lives with assistance, without a risk to others, the Supreme Court has been told. Lawyers for 59-year-old Marie Fle...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
Seized Designer Clothes To Be Destroyed
Designer clothing seized from a small Irish store is to be destroyed after the retailer was found to be selling it without permission. On 13 June last year, more than 800 items of Abercrombie & Fitch...
Irish News, Feb 27, 2013
46 Confirmed Cases Of Ash Dieback
There are now 46 confirmed cases of ash dieback in the country, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed. 26 cases have been found in forestry plantations in Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Galway, Kildare,...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
15 Year Sentence For Rapist Who Attacked Lost Hen Party Woman
A man has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping and beating a young woman out on a hen party in Galway city in June last year. 25-year-old Louis Sheils “befriended” the woman when she became ...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Pair Found Shot Dead In Carlow Identified
Garda have identified, but will not yet name, a man and woman found shot dead in a B&B in Carlow town yesterday. The names are being withheld until after a post mortem examination is carried out. It...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Right-To-Die Campaigner Takes Challenge To Supreme Court
A severely disabled woman in the final stages of multiple sclerosis, who lost her landmark High Court challenge to the absolute ban on assisted suicide last month, will take her challenge to the Supre...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Man Admits Manslaughter Of Journalist
A 21-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of journalist Eugene Moloney last year. Gary Burch of Kennington Close, Templeogue, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to ...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Woman Given Suspended Sentence For Neglecting Children
A woman has been sentenced to four years for the “unnatural crime” of neglecting her own children. However, at Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Carroll Moran yesterday suspended the jail term for seven yea...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Garda Uncover Cannabis Growhouse
A man detained in connection with a €40,000 cannabis seizure in Co Cork has been released without charge. The drugs where uncovered when garda discovered a grow house in a rented cottage in Tower aro...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Almost 500 Flats Found In Breach of Regulations
Housing inspectors conducting a sweep of flats in Dublin have found the vast majority to be in breach of regulations. 589 flats on the North Circular Road were visited and warning letters were issued...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
EPA Launches App To Report Environmental Pollution
The Environmental Protaction Agency has launched a new iPhone App, See it? Say it!, to help people to report environmental pollution in their towns and villages. The new App makes it easy for people ...
Irish News, Feb 26, 2013
Dublin Hotel Evacuated Following Blaze
Guests at Bewley’s Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, were evacuated on Monday night after a fire broke out in the laundry room area. Four fire engines attended attended the scene on Simmonscourt Road and...
Irish News, Feb 25, 2013
€300m Research And Development Fund Announced
A new €300m research and development package funded by the Exchequer, the academic sector and private industry has been announced by the government. The largest ever state/industry co-funded research...
Irish News, Feb 25, 2013
New National Pay Deal Agreement Reached
An agreement has been reached at the Labour Relations Commission over a new national pay deal. Under the proposals for a new public service pay deal, government employees with earnings over €185,000 ...
Irish News, Feb 25, 2013
37 Year Minimum Term For Offaly Vet Murderer
Clive Sharp has been jailed for life, with a minimum sentence of 37 years, for the murder of Offaly vet Catherine Gowing. A court heard how Ms Gowing had been tied up and raped before being murdered ...