The fix is in': former foreign minister Boris Johnson predicts EU will defeat UK in Brexit talks

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, September 05, 2018

The fix is in': former foreign minister Boris Johnson predicts EU will defeat UK in Brexit talks
- Johnson played a leading role in the Brexit referendum campaign and ... Johnson said the issue of Ireland's border was being used by both London ...

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Department, drug companies in two-month deadlock over drug prices

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Department, drug companies in two-month deadlock over drug prices : THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and the body representing pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ireland remain deadlocked in talks for a new agreement on drug prices – almost two months after the previous deal expired. The Irish Medical News reports that the last ...

Ex-Anglo Irish Chairman Charged After Arrest

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Ex-Anglo Irish Chairman Charged After Arrest : DUBLIN —Authorities in Ireland arrested and indicted the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., making him the most senior executive to face charges in an investigation into financial irregularities at the lender that eventually led to Ireland ... Wall Street Journal

Low number of prosecutions in clerical child abuse cases noted

Irish Standard Time — Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Low number of prosecutions in clerical child abuse cases noted To date, 16 of Ireland's 26 Catholic dioceses have been subject to a NBSC review with a further six to be completed by September next. It is expected that all 26 dioceses will have been reviewed by the end of this year. So far, five religious ...

Irish people in stitches at man's 'nonsensical' bag of shopping after drunken trip to Centra ...

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Irish people have been hailing the shopping basket of items purchased by one man after a trip to the pub over the weekend. View article...

What's the difference between Greek and Irish writers?

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, November 22, 2017

What's the difference between Greek and Irish writers? - More than 30 years ago, Declan Kiberd asked whether Irish people “feel ravaged by crises of national identity as they reach for the multinational snap-crackle-and-pop”. Some countries are sufficiently complacent to dispense with this process: the Swiss invented mountain-shaped chocolate and an ...

Archaeologists bowled over by Fermanagh bog finds

Irish Standard Time — Monday, December 03, 2012

Archaeologists bowled over by Fermanagh bog finds Archaeologists have hit the jackpot with the first crannog to have been dug up in Northern Ireland in 50 years — saying the internationally important find is rewriting our understanding of Ulster's history. Normally the approach taken is to avoid ...

The Real Conversation About Mental Health

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Real Conversation About Mental Health : It is time for us to really talk about mental health . It's time for us to really acknowledge that for all of us , our mental health is part of our overall health. It's also time for us to really acknowledge that too many people suffer with mental health ...

Rachel Weisz to play Elizabeth Taylor in new biopic shedding light on her AIDS activism

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, October 30, 2019

In 2015, Taylor's friend and confidante Kathy Ireland revealed that she ran a Dallas Buyers Club-style HIV medication network out of her home. View article...

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