Irish minister denies imminent three-strikes rule

Irish minister denies imminent three-strikes rule: "

... have been busy drafting a statutory instrument that would obligate internet service providers there to take action against file-sharers, and that she planned to enact the new rules this week just before the Irish people vote in a general election. ...

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Leaders must prove talk is not cheap

By Hugh Farrelly Communication has become the buzzword around the Irish camp this week. Is it or is it not an issue? Sunday should help provide an answer but communication has always been central to aspirations of success on a rugby pitch. ...

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Lloyds' Irish Impairment Charge Rises to 4.3 Billion Pounds

Lloyds' Irish Impairment Charge Rises to 4.3 Billion Pounds: "By Joe Brennan - Fri Feb 25 07:43:16 GMT 2011 Lloyds Banking Group Plc said impairment charges on Irish loans rose by 1.3 billion pounds ($2.1 billion) to 4.3 billion pounds last year as commercial real-estate loans soured. Irish commercial property ...

Irish vote in poll dominated by economic woes

DUBLIN — Irish voters are set to oust their government Friday in elections dominated by the collapse of the economy and a widely hated bailout, which would make Dublin the first to fall victim to an EU debt crisis. Polls opened at 7:00 am (0700 GMT), ...

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Drumm paid just €10000 tax on €10m Anglo Irish income

Drumm paid just €10000 tax on €10m Anglo Irish income: "DAVID DRUMM earned more than €10 million during his period as chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank but paid less than €10000 in income tax. Documents filed in Boston as part of Mr Drumm's bankruptcy application there show he received income tax rebates ...

Irish bank transfers approved

Irish bank transfers approved: "By John Murray Brown in Dublin Ireland's bank restructuring took another step forward on Thursday with the government approving the transfer of deposits from Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, the nationalised institutions most ...

The Irish Times - Friday, February 25, 2011

The Irish Times - Friday, February 25, 2011: "WASHINGTON – A Virginia man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to help a Somali militant group and for threatening writers of the satirical South Park TV show for their depiction of the prophet Muhammad. A federal judge in Virginia ...

Irish vote in poll dominated by economic woes (AFP) | Stock Market ...

Irish vote in poll dominated by economic woes (AFP) | Stock Market ...: "AFP - Irish voters are set to oust their government Friday in elections dominated by the collapse of the economy and a widely hated bailout, which would make Dublin the first to fall victim to an EU debt crisis.

In gloomy times, Irish voters ripe for change - Yahoo! News

In gloomy times, Irish voters ripe for change - Yahoo! News: "Unemployment is above 13 percent, Irish taxpayers have reluctantly become bank owners, the value of the family home has plummeted and the nation is in hock ...

Irish voters head to polls amid economic turmoil

Irish voters head to polls amid economic turmoil: "By Paul Armstrong and Peter Taggart, CNN Irish opposition leader Enda Kenny of the Fine Gael party campaigns on the last day before polls open. (CNN) -- Irish voters went to polls Friday in the financially-troubled country's first general election ...

Nephew of notorious Dublin criminal handed 10 year sentence for manslaughter

A nephew of one of Dublin's most notorious criminals has been given a 10 year jail sentence for killing a Meath man and causing serious harm to another, over three years ago on St. Stephen's day. Derek "Del Boy" Hutch, Chapel Farm Avenue, ...

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Irish rescuer a hero in New Zealand earthquake

Irish rescuer a hero in New Zealand earthquake: "An Irish hurler was a hero of the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, which left at least 75 people dead and more than 300 trapped under debris. Donegal hurler Patrick McGowan, who is also the grandson of an Irish senator, pulled free a young ...

In gloomy times, Irish voters ripe for change

DUBLIN (AP) — Unemployment is above 13 percent, Irish taxpayers have reluctantly become bank owners, the value of the family home has plummeted and the nation is in hock to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. ...

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Health and homelessness: health snapshot study of people using ...

Health and homelessness: health snapshot study of people using ...: "The majority of people who are homeless experience more health problems than the general population. However, in Ireland at least, there is a lack of ...

Girlfriend heard shots outside house

Girlfriend heard shots outside house: "

Jenna Barry was giving evidence at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of a 24-year-old Dublin man charged with murdering the rugby player. Barry Doyle, with addresses at Portland Row, Dublin; and Hyde Road, Limerick, has pleaded not guilty to ...

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How the Irish Bubble Burst

How the Irish Bubble Burst: "Some 300000 new dwellings now stand empty in the Irish Republic, a number whose equivalent in the United States would be approximately 21 million. The madness that gripped the country can be gauged from a few examples. A 25-acre piece of land on the ...

Irish woman in NY dies of cold exposure

Irish woman in NY dies of cold exposure: "AN IRISH woman has died in New York from apparent exposure to the cold after she slept rough outside a church in Manhattan. The body of Grace Farrell (35), who had spent more than half her life in the US having moved there when she was 17, ...

Fine Gael most trusted to fix Irish economy: poll

By Fionnan Sheahan Fine Gael is winning the Irish general election on the back of being the most trusted party to manage the Republic's public finances and reduce the deficit, an Irish Independent/Millward Brown Lansdowne poll reveals. ...

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Owen wanted to be buried on home soil, says grieving family

Owen wanted to be buried on home soil, says grieving family: "By Louise Hogan and Shane Hickey THE Irish father of two who died in the New Zealand earthquake had made "express wishes" to be buried on home soil if anything happened to him. The family of Owen McKenna (40) yesterday described how they had been ...

Irish Remedy for Hard Times: Leaving

Irish Remedy for Hard Times: Leaving: "But many are choosing to vote in a traditional Irish fashion: with their feet. Tens of thousands are joining in a new wave of emigration, turning their backs on a country mired in economic malaise. Martin Lynch's family is one of many that are being ...

Oliver Muniz, son of Grace Farrell, cries for homeless mom killed by ...

"I want to keep my mother's ashes," he said, explaining that he plans to someday take her remains back to Ireland. He recalled a time before his mom fell prey to the streets. "In the summer, she always took me to the Carmine St. pool. ...

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One in six Europeans squeezed into overcrowded homes

One in six Europeans squeezed into overcrowded homes: ""Housing deprivation is one of the most extreme examples of poverty and social exclusion in society today," declares the document. "Although access to affordable accommodation is a fundamental need and right, guaranteeing this right still represents a ...

Feuding Irish Politicians Unite to Keep Viagra in EU Tax Fight

Feuding Irish Politicians Unite to Keep Viagra in EU Tax Fight: "24 (Bloomberg) -- One issue unites Irish politicians as they jostle ahead of tomorrow's election: standing up to Germany and France over a corporate tax rate all parties say is vital to reviving the country's battered economy. ...

Irish plane told to leave Tripoli

Irish plane told to leave Tripoli: "An Irish air force plane has been forced to leave the Libyan capital without evacuating any Irish citizens. The plane spent four hours at Tripoli airport on Wednesday night but was prevented by Libyan security officials from picking anyone up. ...

In gloomy times, Irish voters want change

In gloomy times, Irish voters want change: "Voters make their choices on Friday, with every poll pointing to a new government led by Fine Gael, until now the perennial runner-up in Irish elections. The big question is whether Fine Gael will need a coalition partner, most likely the Labour Party. ...

Cannabis should be legalized in Ireland To pull Our country out of ...

Cannabis should be legalized in Ireland To pull Our country out of ...: "Cannabis should be legalized in Ireland To pull Our country out of ression ... " Will your party commit to leagalising and taxing cannabis for personal use, ...

Suicides reveal tragedy behind Irish crisis

Suicides reveal tragedy behind Irish crisis: "More Irish people now commit suicide than are killed on the country's roads. Charities and organizations working to combat the problem say there is no doubt that the rise is linked to the economic meltdown that hit the country in 2008. ...

Dublin Archbishop says Irish Catholic Church is on the brink of collapse

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin says the Irish Catholic Church must resign itself to being a minority culture and believes it is on the brink of collapse. In a strikingly frank admission, he said he had failed to lead the church in the changes it ...

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Two Irish killed in New Zealand quake

Two Irish killed in New Zealand quake: "The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that two Irish people were among those who died in yesterday's New Zealand earthquake. The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that two Irish people were among those who died in yesterday's New ...

Ireland: A change too far

Ireland: A change too far: "The scale of Ireland's collective lost financial gamble is staggering. After years of rapid growth, during which a bloated construction industry accounted for a quarter of GDP and Irish banks sank nearly a third of their lending in construction ...

Danske warns markets will be sceptical of stress tests on Irish banks

By Laura Noonan THE markets will be "highly sceptical" if the latest round of stress tests claims to pinpoint the maximum cost of Ireland's banking collapse, National Irish Bank-owner Danske has warned. The comments in a Danske research note come a ...

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Ex-priest Patrick McCabe faces extradition order

Ex-priest Patrick McCabe faces extradition order: "He was living in an Alameda condominium when Irish police arrested him in July. At least three former parishioners in Northern California have sued the Santa Rosa Diocese, claiming McCabe molested them. Robert Beles, McCabe's attorney, said he would ...

Dublin woman tells of terror at being caught in quake chaos

Dublin woman tells of terror at being caught in quake chaos: "By Alan O'Keeffe and Conor Feehan A Dublin Mum has told of her terror at being caught in today's devastating quake in New Zealand. At least 65 people were killed in the disaster which left Christchurch in ruins. The death toll is expected to rise with ...

Ireland of broken dreams

Ireland of broken dreams: "

By Tony Barber and John Murray Brown Drive out to University College Dublin's edge-of-town site, past “for sale” signs jockeying for space with party political bunting, and a dramatic change in national fortunes is evident in even the leafier parts of ...

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Two brothers jailed for life over murder of father of six

Two brothers jailed for life over murder of father of six: "TWO DUBLIN brothers have been jailed for life after a Central Criminal Court jury found them guilty of murdering a father of six in front of his wife and children. Warren and Jeffrey Dumbrell, aged 36 and 30, had denied murdering Christopher Cawley ...

Catholic dominance of schools not 'tenable'

Catholic dominance of schools not 'tenable': "In a lengthy address to the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies at Magdalene College yesterday, he said: “I am the patron of about 93 per cent of all primary schools in the archdiocese of Dublin, while Catholics compose only about 85 per cent of the ...

Bishops condemn cutting minimum wage with 6-figure salaries elsewhere

Speaking at the launch, one of the document's authors, Fr Eoin Cassidy, said this was a time of political change in Ireland against the background of “justifiable anger and a breakdown of trust in key societal institutions”. From Crisis to Hope argues ...

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Six diagnosed with cancer after free mouth exams

Six diagnosed with cancer after free mouth exams: "FREE MOUTH examinations offered by Dublin and Cork dental hospitals last September found cancers in six people, organisers have said. The exams were part of an awareness day organised by mouth, head and neck cancer survivors along with Dublin Dental ...

Irish bishops say this week's election crucial for country's ...

Irish bishops say this week's election crucial for country's ...: "Five days before national elections, Ireland's bishops are urging voters and politicians to show “strong leadership rooted in justice, a concern for the common good and a commitment to defend the most vulnerable in our society,” as they ...

Macauley back in Dublin fold after breathing scare

Macauley back in Dublin fold after breathing scare: "By Colm Keys Dublin midfielder Michael Darragh Macauley had a minor procedure in hospital yesterday to alleviate a breathing problem that forced him out of Saturday night's victory over Cork under the lights of Croke Park. A piece of chicken lodged in ...

Bishops' body rejects minimum wage cut

Bishops' body rejects minimum wage cut: "

From Crisis to Hope: Working to Achieve the Common Good, was prepared by the Catholic Bishops' Council for Justice and Peace (CJP) and launched at the Capuchin day centre in Dublin. Described as “not a political manifesto” it was, however, ...

Irish Times

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Brother of Dublin South candidate killed in Libyan protests

Brother of Dublin South candidate killed in Libyan protests: "

Libyan-born Buhidma Hussein Hamed, 49, who is running as an independent candidate in Dublin South, has confirmed the death of his stepbrother – who was shot dead in clashes between demonstrators and government security forces over the weekend. ...

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Onetime aspiring artist dies homeless in the East Village after too many ...

BY Simone Weichselbaum and Bill Hutchinson A memorial for Grace Farrell, who died sleeping on carboard boxes on Ave B near 7th St. She came from Ireland half a life ago, a blue-eyed 17-year-old determined to make a splash in New York's art scene with ...

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Irish bishops condemn 'selfish' economic policies, support higher taxes

Irish bishops condemn 'selfish' economic policies, support higher taxes: "Bishop Raymond Field, a Dublin auxiliary who chairs the justice-and-peace committee, said: “Poverty and social exclusion, experienced by increasing numbers of people in Ireland today, North and South, represent gross violations of human dignity. ...

Department advises all Irish citizens to leave Libya

Department advises all Irish citizens to leave Libya: "THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs has advised all Irish citizens in Libya to leave, and is urging anyone considering travelling to the north African state to cancel their plans. Although communication links such as internet and telephone remain ...

Hundreds of repossessed homes in Ireland to be sold by auction

Hundreds of repossessed homes in Ireland to be sold by auction: "

And, in a sign of how wide the property crash is, the latest item to turn up in liquidation sales in Dublin is a job lot of 15 cranes, including a pair towering over Anglo Irish Bank's half-built headquarters in the city's docklands. ...

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Cardinal and Archbishop Wash the Feet of Abuse Victims

Cardinal and Archbishop Wash the Feet of Abuse Victims: "Irish Central reported today a dramatic scene in Dublin's St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, part of the Vatican's visitation (that is, investigation) by Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York of the troubled church in Ireland ...

Ireland faces task on bond payments

Ireland faces task on bond payments: "By John Murray Brown An incoming Irish government will have a “small window of opportunity” to persuade its European Union colleagues that bondholders should share some of Ireland's bank losses, because the bonds are rapidly being repaid. ...

Richard Bruton: The Irish election and the EU

Richard Bruton: The Irish election and the EU: "A controversial financial bailout worth 85bn euros by the IMF and EU last year has been unpopular in Ireland. According to many opinion polls the ruling Fianna Fail party, which many people blame for Ireland's financial woes, is staring at a heavy ...

Downgrading Irish 'an act of cultural vandalism'

Downgrading Irish 'an act of cultural vandalism': "IRISH LANGUAGE : THE IRISH language is one of the few aspects of identity that makes sure Irish people are not branded as “East Americans or the West British”, Minister for Arts Mary Hanafin has contended. Ms Hanafin accused Enda Kenny of an act of ...

Nepal and the UK enjoy strong and special bilateral relations

Nepal and the UK enjoy strong and special bilateral relations: "

... as climate change, drug trafficking, women's rights, deadly diseases and many other areas. ... Q: You are concurrently accredited to Ireland and Norway. ...

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Irish banks behind ECB borrowing surge | ForexLive

Irish banks behind ECB borrowing surge | ForexLive: "Jamie mentioned this over the weekend, but in case you missed it, there is a technical explanation behind the surge in the ECBs emergency borrowing facility.

At least 10 Irish in violence-torn Libyan city

At least 10 Irish in violence-torn Libyan city: "AT LEAST 10 Irish citizens, including six employees of a Dublin-based engineering firm, are in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where a brutal crackdown against anti-regime protesters left scores dead at the weekend. The six Irish nationals working for ...

Words of pain, contrition in O'Malley's Irish service

By Lisa Wangsness DUBLIN — Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin lay prostrate before a bare altar as the packed cathedral watched in silence. They listened as lectors read long sections of government reports ...

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Young mum feared she woud die as ex-boyfriend throttled her in ...

Cannabis addict Ireland later poured bleach over Rebecca's bed and settee. ... Mr Fitch said Ireland's cannabis addiction meant he was “unpredictable”, ...

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Forgiveness sought for 'sins' of clergy

Forgiveness sought for 'sins' of clergy: "

THE CATHOLIC Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston Seán O'Malley yesterday washed the feet of a representative number of victims of clerical child sex abuse in “an act of humble service” at Dublin's Pro-Cathedral. ...

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Dublin City Council: Royal Dublin Fusiliers Archive

The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association was established in 1996 to commemorate all Irish men and women who volunteered, served and died in the First World ...

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Repentence and renewal in Dublin

Repentence and renewal in Dublin: "In Ireland, a liturgy of Lament and Repentance for the sexual abuse of children by priests and religious was held Sunday in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral Dublin, within the framework of the Apostolic Visitation of the Archdiocese as mandated by Pope ...

Twice-released rapist attacks a third time, hours after being set free

Trevor Byrne, a 32-year-old man from Dublin, was under police surveillance after completing a 5-year sentence for attacking a woman in 2005, which happened just 36 hours after he had finished a 15-year sentence for an 18-year-old woman in November of ...

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Boston cardinal assessing abuse response in Dublin

BOSTON—Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley is in Ireland conducting a Vatican-commissioned assessment of the Archdiocese of Dublin's response to sexual abuse. The cardinal also is helping to preside over a service of repentance that was partly written by ...

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Drugs gang are a set of dopes

Drugs gang are a set of dopes: "A group of dopey drugs mules are at the centre of a haphazard plot to smuggle blocks of cannabis into Northern Ireland. David Redfern, 27, and his equally ...
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FG in row over union comments

FG in row over union comments: "Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is to contact the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, David Begg in a bid to resolve a row about comments on the party's website. Congress has asked that the line on the party's website and election ...

Voting underway in virtual Irish ballot

Voting underway in virtual Irish ballot: "

An estimated 3.1 million Irish passport-holders live abroad, while some 27700 Irish citizens left the State in the 12 months to April 2010. Voting is underway in a virtual Irish election designed to highlight the disenfranchisement of Irish emigrants. ...

Irish Times

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Irish nurse Anne-Marie O'Loughlin jailed for raping a mother-of-two in toilet ...

A YOUNG female Irish nurse has been jailed for 2½ years for raping a woman in the toilets of an inner-Brisbane city hotel more than two-years ago. Brisbane District Court judge David Reid said a "cavalier attitude'' and regular excessive consumption of ...

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Jailed women 'have been homeless, abused' | Irish Examiner

Jailed women 'have been homeless, abused' | Irish Examiner: "PRELIMINARY data of a study into homeless women and their experiences has found women who have been jailed have all experienced domestic violence at some ...

The Irish Property Boom and Bust — Mises Economics Blog

The Irish Property Boom and Bust — Mises Economics Blog: "In recognition of the spectacular losses, the entire Irish economy has almost dutifully collapsed. When you fly into Dublin you are traveling, for the first ...

Man jailed for life for murdering former girlfriend in Dublin

Man jailed for life for murdering former girlfriend in Dublin: "A MAN has been jailed for life for murdering his ex-girlfriend in Sandyford, Co Dublin after she began a relationship with another man. It took a Central Criminal Court jury of seven men and five women an hour and a quarter to find the 49 year old ...