Catholic elementary school has leading UK gay lobby group educate students ...

Catholic elementary school has leading UK gay lobby group educate students ...:

LONDON – A Catholic elementary school in Wimbledon is under criticism for inviting Stonewall, the UK's most powerful homosexual lobbying group, to train its teachers how to deal with “homophobic bullying.” Sarah Crouch ...

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44 suicidal patients a week attend local A&Es

44 suicidal patients a week attend local A&Es: Among the worrying facts revealed was the fact that the local health trust area had the highest number of attempted hangings in Northern Ireland, and the second highest number of patients struggling with suicidal thoughts. Forty-three of the cases ...

Teachers fear new special needs plans will be red-tape nightmare

Teachers fear new special needs plans will be red-tape nightmare: Early Childhood Ireland also welcomed the recommendations but chief operations officer Teresa Heeney said that "waiting to identify and support children with special educational needs at primary school is too late". Irish Independent. Download our Free ...

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Needs of children trumped by politics and economics

Needs of children trumped by politics and economics:

Unlike in Ireland, where every party in a child welfare case arrives “lawyered-up”, in the Netherlands in cases that may involve taking a child into care, often neither the State nor the parents have legal representation. This is because “compulsory ...

Irish Times

Japanese govt links acts of bullying to criminal charges - AsiaOne.com

Japanese govt links acts of bullying to criminal charges - AsiaOne.com:

The education ministry has compiled a list of bullying acts that should be reported promptly to police, and has communicated this list to prefectures and boards of education of large cities through an official notification. After a bullied second-year ...

AsiaOne

Tech aid will keep eye on horses' health

Tech aid will keep eye on horses' health: AN innovation driven Irish company which has already introduced cows to cloud computing is now set to transform the health monitoring of racehorses with world-class technology. Alanya, based at the Rubicon Centre in the Cork Institute of Technology ...

Community Relations Week 2013 offers 'hope' during challenging period

Community Relations Week 2013 offers 'hope' during challenging period:

More than 180 events aimed at improving relations between different communities are to take place across Northern Ireland over the course of this week. Thousands are due to attend workshops, exhibitions, seminars, sporting activities and musical ...

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New insolvency regime: a windfall or a headache for professionals?

New insolvency regime: a windfall or a headache for professionals?

What's certain, according to Lorcan O'Connor, director of the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI), is that “if we don't get the practitioner bit right the system won't work”. His agency is due to start registering the first PIPs from next June, and ...

Nanotechnology conference comes to Dublin

Nanotechnology conference comes to Dublin: The sixth annual nanotechnology conference, EuroNanoForum 2013, will bring together nanotechnology experts and decisions in Dublin, Ireland, this June. EuroNanoForum 2013, the largest nanotechnology conference in Europe, will this year focus on the ...

Community Relations Week 2013 offers 'hope' during challenging period

Community Relations Week 2013 offers 'hope' during challenging period:

More than 180 events aimed at improving relations between different communities are to take place across Northern Ireland over the course of this week. Thousands are due to attend workshops, exhibitions, seminars, sporting activities and musical ...

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Unemployment may have peaked - report

Unemployment may have peaked - report:

STEADYING employment across the island of Ireland suggests that unemployment north and south may have peaked according to cross border business agency InterTradeIreland. Its latest quarterly Business Monitor today reports a 'stabilisation' with 85 per ...

Belfast Newsletter

Suicide in pregnancy a real risk, committee is told

Suicide in pregnancy a real risk, committee is told: Suicide in pregnancy was a real risk and did happen, president of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Dr Anthony McCarthy has told the Oireachtas health committee. “This is always a tragedy, at least two lives are lost, and many others are hugely ...

Two thirds of treatment centre's clients stay drug-free | Irish Examiner

Two thirds of treatment centre's clients stay drug-free | Irish Examiner: Drug addicts seeking help at one treatment centre are mostly in their 30s and more than half are from outside the capital, it was revealed at a celebration to mark ...

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Further hearings on abortion reform

Further hearings on abortion reform:

The Bill, if passed, would legislate for the 1992 X case judgment from Ireland's Supreme Court , which found abortion is legal if there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother, including the threat of suicide. The case was taken by a ...

Irish Independent

Ireland's prime minister lays flowers at bombing memorial

Ireland's prime minister lays flowers at bombing memorial

Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny, in town to give a commencement speech at Boston College Monday, visited the Boston Marathon bombing memorial site in Copley Square with Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on Sunday to pay his respects.

Fundraiser held to raise awareness about bullying

Fundraiser held to raise awareness about bullying: LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - A fundraiser at the Lafayette Theater is raising money in an effort to stop bullying. The event is part of Rise to Shine, an organization that raises awareness about bullying in our schools. The event included a silent auction ...

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Alliance welcome fall in crime rate

Alliance welcome fall in crime rate:

Statistics released by the PSNI showed a recorded decrease in crime in D and H Districts. H District, which includes Larne, showed the largest decrease in Northern Ireland of 9.8 per cent. The statistics also showed an increase in crime detection and ...

Larne Times

Shared future only way ahead: Appeal for a calm summer as Community ...

Shared future only way ahead: Appeal for a calm summer as Community ...

This year's series of events organised across Northern Ireland takes place on the back of a turbulent number of months for community relations after the Union flag row and last year's difficult parading season. Ms Irwin said the tension sparked by the ...

All eyes will be on Dublin skies for air spectacular

All eyes will be on Dublin skies for air spectacular:

Over 30 aircraft will fly through the city of Dublin as part of the Gathering Ireland 2013. They will set off from Dublin Airport, before flying to Dublin Port and up along the River Liffey, as far as the Customs House. The sustained flypast through ...

Dublin People

National Government's inaction on poverty fails Pacific kids - Green Party

National Government's inaction on poverty fails Pacific kids - Green Party

The National Government's head in the sand approach to poverty means Pacific children are being denied the same opportunities to thrive as others, the Green Party said today. The Salvation Army's first State of the Nation report on Pasifika people in ...

Elderly group living in fear of crime spree

Elderly group living in fear of crime spree: Residents of the Swansea retirement village, Moewaka Shepherd, Dianne Hook, Nicky Te Aho, Pam Ireland and Ron Benson are angry and upset after a number of their cars were broken into over the weekend. Paul Taylor. A group of elderly Flaxmere ...

Cancer battle won't stop David McClarty MLA

Cancer battle won't stop David McClarty MLA: One of Northern Ireland's most respected MLAs has spoken of his determination to beat cancer and continue representing his constituents. East Londonderry Assemblyman David McClarty admits his initial treatment for lymphoma – a form of the disease that ...

Northern Ireland police and community leaders pledge cooperation following ...

Northern Ireland police and community leaders pledge cooperation following ...: Two days of wide-ranging discussions were held in Cardiff involving senior Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers, politicians and representatives from loyalist and republican communities. Delegates agreed to keep lines of communication ...

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NI talks aim to rule out violence

NI talks aim to rule out violence: ... produced a commitment to non-violence, it was revealed. Two days of wide-ranging discussions were held in Cardiff involving senior Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers, politicians and representatives from loyalist and republican ...

Cardiff talks: 'Dialogue and non-violence essential'

Cardiff talks: 'Dialogue and non-violence essential':

Police, republicans, loyalists and politicians have agreed, following discussions, to resolve differences through dialogue and non-violent means. In a statement issued after two days of talks in Cardiff, the delegates agreed to keep lines of ...

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