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Commenting on the statistics on recorded crime in the second quarter of 2009 released by the Central Statistics Office last week, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D., said that they show a continuation of the encouraging trends of the previous quarter. However, they also reveal some matters of concern which he and the Government are responding to... Read more...
It has emerged that Queen's University has been paying for its Vice Chancellor, Professor Peter Gregson, to have membership with an exclusive members-only Gentleman's club in London... Read more...
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Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin T.D., has reported savings of over €228 million which have been achieved across her Department's schemes through fraud and control measures Read more...
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This week Northern Finance Minister Sammy Wilson met with a delegation from industry group NI Manufacturing, led by their Chief Executive Bryan Gray, to discuss the effect of the economic downturn on the industry Read more...
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As the Irish economy continues to circle the bowl, buckled and broken by the greed of rapacious banks, unscrupulous developers and the silence of too many people who expected the Golden Goose to live forever, it has become fashionable to knock the greed that gripped the country for the past 15 years or so... Read more...
If you've been across the sea to Ireland this summer, you may well have thought you travelled through time and arrived in the wrong season... Read more...
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We were hardly surprised when the State Department announced last week that the news ticker that twinkled across the outside of the US diplomatic mission on Havana's Malecon drive had been dismantled... Read more...
...Howard didn't mean it as an insult. In fact, he felt a deep affinity with the Celtic races. But like myself he must have often wondered at how the years had taken their toll on a race of people who wouldn't back down... Read more...
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'After Luke' and 'When I was God' opened in the Irish Repertory Theatre on July 29th and are running until September 20th. Written by Conal Creedon from Cork city, the plays are set in present day Cork and explore, primarily the relationship between father and son, but also the conflicting aspirations and ideas of family members... Read more...
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This week in Out & About I must tell you that I was at the AC/DC concert at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey last Friday night... Read more...
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Cork looked impressive as they secured an emphatic win over Donegal in a very one-sided contest in this weekend's first football Championship quarterfinal at Croker Read more...
In their first year in the Mayor's Cup in New York City Team Ireland won their way through to a historic appearance in the final played at the Metropolitian Oval last Sunday Read more...
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