| The Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Paterson, confirmed the date for the report's release in a statement at Westminster. Nelson, 40, was killed when a bomb exploded underneath her car as she left her home in Lurgan, County Armagh, in March 1999. ... |  The Guardian |
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Monday 9 May 2011
Rosemary Nelson inquiry to publish findings on 23 May
Rosemary Nelson inquiry to publish findings on 23 May: "
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One collapse doesn't ruin a summer
One collapse doesn't ruin a summer: "And with the start of every summer comes an uncomfortable reminder for Dublin's long-suffering supporters and players of their growing exile in the All-Ireland wilderness. After the League final setback, it was also depressingly familiar that people ...
Dublin Ladies notes
Dublin Ladies notes: "Congratulations to the Dublin senior panel and their management team on winning the Bord Gáis Energy NFL div 2 title on Saturday with a 3-15 to 2-09 win over Meath. Sinead Goldrick picked up the Player of the Match award for her fantastic performance ...
Ageing study highlights health concerns
Ageing study highlights health concerns: "The report by Trinity College Dublin also highlights the large voluntary contribution the over-50s make to society and childcare. The study - Fifty Plus in Ireland 2011: First Results from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing - is the most ...
Belfast Experts Tackling Baby Blindness, UK
Belfast Experts Tackling Baby Blindness, UK: "Two teams of experts in Belfast are working to help stop the suffering of thousands of babies1 affected by a condition which causes blindness, thanks to funding from Sussex-based children's charity Action Medical Research. ...
Sinn Fein holds power base
Sinn Fein holds power base: "By Sarah Stack Gerry Adams may have quit frontline politics in Northern Ireland but his Midas touch lives on in west Belfast. There were no surprises in Sinn Fein's hub in the republican quarter of the city, taking back five of the six seats in their ...
Ecstasy use drops as impurity increases
Ecstasy use drops as impurity increases: "Professor Farrell says although the use of synthetic drugs is small, their popularity needs to be monitored. "What we have seen internationally is we've seen more use of other drugs like in the UK and in Ireland," he said. "We've seen some of the use ...
Dublin street sealed off over device
Dublin street sealed off over device: "Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a suspicious package on Talbot Street in Dublin city centre. The army bomb disposal team have been notified and are on their way to the scene. Surrounding streets have been sealed off and Connolly Train Station ...
Dublin Church of Ireland Archbishop enthroned
Dublin Church of Ireland Archbishop enthroned: "The new Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough was enthroned today. The ceremony to install Archbishop Michael Jackson took place at Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin. The President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin were in ...
State visits involve 10000 gardaí and military
State visits involve 10000 gardaí and military: "Teams of gardaí and troops have been combing sewerage systems for any devices in Dublin and other areas outside the capital including Kildare, Tipperary and Cork that will be visited by the Queen and President Obama. On April 21st a device was thrown ...
Revaluation of Dublin city businesses could lower rates
Revaluation of Dublin city businesses could lower rates: "THE COMMERCIAL value of every business paying rates in Dublin city is to be recalculated for the first time in 100 years by the Valuation Office. The process of assessing how much each of the 25000 businesses in the capital should pay in rates to ...
Marches to legalise cannabis held
Marches to legalise cannabis held: "Large numbers of participants turned out from an alliance of groups including Cork Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Legalise Cannabis Ireland and the De Criminalise Illegal Drugs group. Participants in the fifth annual Legalise Cannabis marches have ...
Dublin street party to mark Europe Day
Dublin street party to mark Europe Day: "EU EMBASSIES will bring traditional food and drink from their home countries to a special Europe Day “street party” in Dublin today. The party will be centred in the European Commission and Parliament offices on the corner of Dawson Street and ...
Economic interdependence at heart of UK-Ireland bond
Economic interdependence at heart of UK-Ireland bond: "
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| MY GRANDFATHER Noel Collins was born in Dublin two years after the last official visit by a British monarch to Ireland, and were he still with us today, the near century of his life, he would have witnessed the complete transformation of relations ... |  Irish Times |
Irish Consumers Gloomier In April -- KBC/ESRI Index
Irish Consumers Gloomier In April -- KBC/ESRI Index
DUBLIN -(Dow Jones)- Irish consumer sentiment weakened slightly in April, the first drop this year, according to a monthly index by KBC Bank and the think tank Economic and Social Research Institute. Amid the country's prolonged debt crisis, ...
Irish government sees opportunity from Greek crisis - Yahoo! News
Irish government sees opportunity from Greek crisis - Yahoo! News: "Ireland's government is watching to see what concessions it can win on its EU- IMF bailout if Greece is given a new deal to resolve its worsening debt crisis ...
Irish Muslims react to bin Laden death
Irish Muslims react to bin Laden death: "That man did more harm to our religion than anyone else,” he told the Irish Independent. "He hijacked the name of Islam for more than two decades and used it as a banner for all of his atrocities and crimes. Dr al-Saleh, who is considered one of the ...
VQ Day in June
VQ Day in June: "National events are being planned in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, as well as regional events held by schools, colleges, learning providers and employers up and down the UK. Vocational qualifications have never been more important to ...
Army sent to north Belfast alert
Army sent to north Belfast alert: "In Ballymena, a controlled explosion was carried out on a car at the centre of a security alert in the Co Antrim town on Sunday morning. Army explosive experts were sent to the scene on the Crebilly Road, in the Ballykeel area. ...
Europe pressured to revise Irish and Greek bailouts
Europe pressured to revise Irish and Greek bailouts: "
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| By Andrew Torchia and Carmel Crimmins DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union is under pressure to renegotiate its financial bailouts of Ireland and Greece after an Irish minister said any concessions given to Athens should mean better terms for ... |  Reuters |
EU Commission hopes for Irish interest-rate cut in weeks
EU Commission hopes for Irish interest-rate cut in weeks: ""We hope for an agreement on an interest rate reduction in the coming weeks that can support Irish debt sustainability," said a spokesman for Olli Rehn, the EU commissioner in charge of economic and monetary affairs. "The Commission is clearly in ...
Two injured in Dublin road crash - RTÉ News
Two injured in Dublin road crash - RTÉ News: "Two men have been injured in a crash in Dublin. ... An exhibition is being held to celebrate Trinity College Dublin's School of Medicine's 300th birthday ...
Rally demands action on suicide
Rally demands action on suicide: "A local charity is holding a rally on Monday to encourage the government to do more to prevent the growing rate of suicides in Northern Ireland. Philip McTaggart, of suicide prevention charity PIPS said mental health issues are everyone's ...
Mass rally for suicide prevention
Mass rally for suicide prevention: "
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| The PIPS Programme suicide prevention organisation said around 10 people in Belfast had taken their lives since Easter. It is organising a mass rally in the city on Monday night. The organisation said the problem needed "a government departmental ... |  BBC News |
Suspected drug drivers to be put through series of roadside tests
Suspected drug drivers to be put through series of roadside tests
Prof Cusack said the training involved a range of legal and practical issues relating to the first ever roadside drugs driving test in Ireland. He said gardai would be given specific instructions to ensure that there was a standardised approach to the ...
Friday 6 May 2011
Submission to the Government's Jobs Initiative « European Anti ...
Submission to the Government's Jobs Initiative « European Anti ...: "2010 Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion ... The EAPN Ireland Europe 2020 Working Group has made a submission to the Government's Jobs ...
Voting apathy may have hit urban areas
Voting apathy may have hit urban areas: "In North and West Belfast some polling booths reported turnouts as low as 30%. Wet weather may have discouraged voters, but the lacklustre campaign in which no single major issue emerged probably also played a part. If these predictions are borne out ...
Northern Ireland awaits Stormont election results
Northern Ireland awaits Stormont election results: "
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| Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Counting for assembly elections to the Stormont parliament will begin on Friday morning, with more than 1200 election workers counting votes from Northern Ireland and the final tally for local government elections reached by ... |  The Guardian |
Northern Ireland voters asked to back powersharing
Northern Ireland voters asked to back powersharing
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Ballot counting under way in Northern Ireland will determine the shape of Northern Ireland's next power-sharing government — and whether a Protestant or Catholic wins the top job. First winners from Thursday's ...
Council of Europe highlights drug-related violence in Irish ...
Council of Europe highlights drug-related violence in Irish ...: "Connolly, Johnny (2011) Council of Europe highlights drug-related violence in Irish prisons. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 37, Spring 2011 . p. 27. ...
Prison union warns of 'tinder box' situation
Prison union warns of 'tinder box' situation: "Overcrowding, drug use and poor management of prison officer's hours have led to a "tinder box" situation in Irish prisons where criminals band together in gangs and violence is commonplace, according to the Prison Officers Association. ...
Irish-German relations 'excellent'
Irish-German relations 'excellent': "
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| Opening a conference on contemporary German-Irish cultural relations, Mr Quinn noted the German-Irish Chamber of Industry had recently marked 30 years of existence, and over that time had created a "multitude" of business partnerships and investment ... |  Irish Times |
Pension industry warns of stealth tax
Pension industry warns of stealth tax: "THE IRISH pension industry has warned that the Government is planning to impose a stealth tax on private pensions to fund the jobs initiative which is to be announced next week. The Irish Association of Pension Funds said it had been briefed by ...
Local elections: Ronan Kerr family urge people to vote
Local elections: Ronan Kerr family urge people to vote: "
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| Murdered policeman Ronan Kerr, whose family has urged Northern Ireland voters to go to the polls. Photograph: Psni/PA The family of Ronan Kerr, the policeman killed by a car bomb in Omagh last month, have urged voters to "support the peace process" by ... |  The Guardian |
Man Charged Over East Belfast Stab Death
Man Charged Over East Belfast Stab Death: "
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| The PSNI has now charged a man with the murder of Richard Hicking in east Belfast at the weekend. The 35-year-old is expected to appear in court in relation to the charge later on Thursday and comes after the body of Mr Hicking, 31, was found in a flat ... |  4ni.co.uk |
Survitec lands marine giant after huge takeover deal
Survitec lands marine giant after huge takeover deal
A Belfast company has acquired a global marine business in a whopping £31m deal, absorbing over 450 new staff. Based in Dunmurry, Survitec Group Limited, which employs more than 1000 people around the world, makes safety and survival equipment and has ...
Irish Live Register 2011: Unemployment rate dips to 14.6% in April; 77523 non ...
Irish Live Register 2011: Unemployment rate dips to 14.6% in April; 77523 non ...: "
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| By Finfacts Team Irish Live Register 2011: The standardised unemployment rate in April 2011 was 14.6%, marginally down from a rate of 14.7% in March. The monthly decrease in the standardised unemployment rate was caused by a fall of 1600 (-0.4%) in the ... |  FinFacts Ireland |
Northern Ireland inmates found dead in cells
Northern Ireland inmates found dead in cells: "The two prisoners were discovered on Wednesday at Hydebank Wood young offenders centre on the outskirts of south Belfast. A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) said Samuel Carson, 19, died shortly after 5pm despite efforts by ...
Young offenders found dead in Northern Ireland
Young offenders found dead in Northern Ireland: "
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| Two young prisoners are thought to have hanged themselves in Northern Ireland, raising further calls for an independent review after a spate of teen suicides in English prisons. The bodies of Samuel Carson, 19, and Frances McKeown, 23, were found in ... |  Channel 4 News |
Death of the countryside
Death of the countryside: "
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| By Mike McKimm BBC NI environment correspondent After a week which saw hundreds of heathland and gorse fires break out across Northern Ireland, BBC Northern Ireland's environment correspondent Mike McKimm reflects on the damage and the outcomes. ... |  BBC News |
Northern Ireland men arrested over Meath diesel plant
Northern Ireland men arrested over Meath diesel plant: "
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| Four men - two of them from Northern Ireland - have been arrested by Irish police over diesel laundering. In a joint operation, officers from Revenue's Customs Service and the Garda uncovered a large oil laundering plant at Wilkinstown in County Meath. ... |  BBC News |
Irish politicians to face cut in their own workforce
Irish politicians to face cut in their own workforce: "Up to 20 members of the Irish parliament face losing their jobs after the next General Election, currently scheduled for 2016. The recently elected Fine Gael-Labor Party coalition government has approved plans to cut the number of sitting members (TDs) ...
Prisoners found dead at Hydebank
Prisoners found dead at Hydebank: "
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| There is no indication two prisoners found dead at Belfast's Hydebank Young Offenders Centre knew each other, the head of the Prison Service has said. Samuel Carson, aged 19, died shortly after 1700 BST on Wednesday despite efforts by prison staff to ... |  BBC News |
Northern Ireland voters asked to back powersharing | The ...
Northern Ireland voters asked to back powersharing | The ...: "Voters in Northern Ireland were challenged Thursday to back renewed power- sharing between their Protestant and Catholic leaders, an experiment in compromise designed to end decades of bloodshed over the territory's future.
Back From Belfast
Back From Belfast: "
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| From there, he played the Belfast Nashville Songwriter's Festival, opened for Grammy winner Nanci Griffith in Belfast, held a flood relief concert here in the province that raised $35000 for last year's flood, and appeared on Ireland's BalconyTV, ... |  Planet S |
Despite Rain, Upper Dublin Education Foundation Day a Success
Despite Rain, Upper Dublin Education Foundation Day a Success: "By Kyle Bagenstose | Email the author | 4:23pm The rain may have came and went, but the enthusiasm never left the Upper Dublin Education Foundation Day at George's Dreshertown Shop N' Bag on Wednesday. The annual event is a flagship day for UDEF, ...
Irish pension funds make modest gains during April
Irish pension funds make modest gains during April: "Irish group pension managed fund returns over the past ten years have been a disappointing 1.2% per annum on average, well below the Irish inflation rate of 2.4% per annum over the same time horizon. Indeed, only one of the managed ...
Record numbers in Irish prisons
Record numbers in Irish prisons: "
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| There are a record number of prisoners in Irish jails, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter said today. As of this week, there were almost 800 prisoners on temporary release with a further 4495 in custody. The Irish Prison Officers Association, ... |  Irish Times |
49% do not seek help for mental problems
49% do not seek help for mental problems: "Depression is the most common cause of mental health problems (38 per cent) in individuals followed by: bereavement (26 per cent); stress related issues (21 per cent); alcohol or drug addiction (15 per cent); bullying (8 per cent); and emotional abuse ...
Opera of the people, by the people, for the people
Opera of the people, by the people, for the people: "
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| And what's more, Brian Irvine's Shelter Me From The Rain was commissioned by Carlow local authorities, a local authority first, too. More than 100 amateur singers gathered on the stage of the town's GB Shaw Theatre last night to mull musically over ... |  Irish Times |
Thursday 5 May 2011
Polish festival comes to Belfast
Polish festival comes to Belfast: "
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| It reflects the presence of Northern Ireland's large Polish migrant population. The PCW website states that part of its mission is "to develop a sense of identity among the members of the Polish community in Northern Ireland". ... |  BBC News |
Polls open for 2011 Stormont Assembly elections
Polls open for 2011 Stormont Assembly elections: "
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| More than 1200000 people are registered to vote in Northern Ireland. Polling stations open at 0700 BST morning and close at 2200 BST. A senior police officer said there will be an increased security presence. Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie ... |  BBC News |
Eradicate Poverty & Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland
Eradicate Poverty & Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland: "Eradicate Poverty & Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland ... Party stand firmly committed to the principle that social justice should be the cornerstone of ...
Northern Ireland inmates found dead in cells
Northern Ireland inmates found dead in cells: "A male and female inmate at a young offenders centre in Northern Ireland have been found dead in their cells. The two prisoners were discovered on Wednesday at Hydebank Wood young offenders centre on the outskirts of south Belfast. ...
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