Recently added articles from The Irish Times:
Major shops to open on St Stephen's Day
Dec 01, 2009; CIARAN HANCOCK ... IRELAND'S BIGGEST department stores, Arnotts, Clerys and BrownThomas, have decided to break with decades of tradition this yearand open their doors to bargain-hunting shoppers on St Stephen'sDay, The Irish Timeshas learned. The three hope to generate extra sales in what has ...
Scepticism about unpaid leave plan for public sector savings
Dec 01, 2009; MARTIN WALL ... TRADE UNIONS last night remained hopeful that a deal on reducingthe public sector pay bill for next year could be reached. Government sources, however, continued to be sceptical of theactual levels of savings proposed that a compulsory unpaid leavearrangement for State employees ...
Papal envoy denies he showed contempt for inquiry
Dec 01, 2009; RONAN McGREEVY; PATSY McGARRY ... THE PAPAL Nuncio in Ireland has denied suggestions that he showedcontempt for the institutions of the State by not responding to theCommission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. In his first public comments since the publication of thecommission report last ...
Man held after giving gun to staff at jail gates
Dec 01, 2009; JAMIE SMYTH ... A MAN driving a waste disposal truck was arrested yesterday atthe gates of Mountjoy Prison after handing a loaded gun to prisonguards during a security check. The 32-year-old driver stunned prison officers by producing aWalther semi-automatic pistol and 14 rounds of ammunition when ...
Recycling firm in pig feed scare to sue oil supplier
Dec 01, 2009; MARY CAROLAN ... THE CO Wexford recycling company at the centre of the animal feedcontamination scare which forced the recall of Irish pork productsfrom shops and export markets yesterday successfully applied to theHigh Court to open a case against the suppliers of oil mixed withthe pig feed which turned ...
Cabinet expected to approve actions planned for budget ; Last week's strike may influence sign-off
Dec 01, 2009; HARRY McGEE ... THE CABINET is expected to approve the overall expendituremeasures for next week's budget at the weekly meeting of GovernmentMinisters today. While the meeting is taking place in advance of tomorrow'spublication of the exchequer returns until the end of November, thedecision on ...
'I was not in a position to comment. The report was already done'
Dec 01, 2009; RONAN McGREEVY ... INTERVIEW: The papal nuncio says the Vatican's lack of responseto the commission was not intended as a snubTHE PAPAL nuncio hasdefended his decision not to reply to the Commission ofInvestigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, saying itscontents did not pertain to him ....
Bishop warns against seeking 'head on a plate'
Dec 01, 2009; PATSY McGARRY ... BISHOP MURRAY CONTROVERSY: BISHOP OF Killaloe Willie Walsh, hassaid calls for the resignation of Bishop of Limerick Donal Murraywere based on a "gross misreading" of the Dublin diocesan report andwarned against a desire "to get a head on a plate". Asked on RTE Radio 1'sMorning ...
No mention made of references to bishop
Dec 01, 2009; PATSY McGARRY ... BISHOP OF KILDARE STATEMENT: A STATEMENT from the Bishop ofKildare and Leighlin, Dr Jim Moriarty, read at Masses in the dioceseat the weekend made no mention of references to himself in theDublin diocesan report. An auxiliary bishop in Dublin from 1991 to 2002, in 1993 hereceived ...
Pressure mounts on Murray to resign despite letter of support from local group
Dec 01, 2009; KATHRYN HAYES ... BISHOP DONAL MURRAY: PRESSURE ON the Bishop of Limerick, Dr DonalMurray, to resign in the wake of the Dublin diocesan reportcontinued to mount last night, despite a letter of support issued bya group of lay people and priests working in the diocese. About 80 people attended a ...
Department rejects call to expel nuncio
Dec 01, 2009; MARY FITZGERALD ... DIPLOMACY:THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs has rejected callsfor the papal nuncio to be expelled from Ireland for ignoringrequests for information from the Dublin commission. The department said last night that "creating a diplomaticincident is not the solution". It is ...
End jailing of boys at St Patrick's, say campaigners
Dec 01, 2009; CARL O'brien ... PENAL REFORM campaigners have called for an end to the practiceof locking up teenagers in prison for up to 23 hours a day for theirown protection. Last year a total of 161 young people aged 16 and 17 weredetained in St Patrick's Institution which forms part of theMountjoy Prison ...
5,000 participate in Dublin senior citizens' day
Dec 01, 2009; KITTY HOLLAND ... ABOUT 5,000 people visited Dublin city yesterday "from all overthe country" to take part Dublin City Senior Citizens' Day. Friends of the Elderly spokesman Dermot Kirwan said the event wasa success: "The good weather made it and I met people who hadtravelled from as far away as ...
How to fly with no credit card booking fee
Dec 01, 2009; PAUL CULLEN ... RYANAIR CUSTOMERS will be able to avoid the airline's heftycredit card booking charges following its decision to accept prepaidMasterCards from today. Currently, travellers pay [euro]5 for each person on each bookingwhen they reserve with Ryanair using a credit card. This amounts ...
Call for 24-hour car ban to facilitate Metro North work
Dec 01, 2009; OLIVIA KELLY ... PRIVATE CARS must be banned from using Westmoreland Street tocross Dublin city centre during the construction of Metro North, theRailway Procurement Agency (RPA) has said. Addressing the first day of the resumed An Bord Pleanala hearingon the metro, project director Rory O'Connor ...
Warning of flood risk from port plan
Dec 01, 2009; TIM O'brien ... AN EXISTING risk of flooding in Clontarf, Sandymount and Ringsendwould be exacerbated by Dublin Port's plans to infill 52 acres ofDublin Bay, a Bord Pleanala hearing heard yesterday. Citing a range of expert opinions, including the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) 2003 report ...
McDaid expected to back budget despite row
Dec 01, 2009; HARRY McGEE; MARY MINIHAN ... THE GOVERNMENT says it is confident maverick Donegal TD JimMcDaid will support next week's budget notwithstanding his threat tovote with the Opposition following an internal Fianna Fail disputein his constituency. Dr McDaid, a former minister who lost the whip last year, e-mailed ...
FG calls for cut in VECs to 20
Dec 01, 2009; SEAN FLYNN ... THE NUMBER of Vocational Education Committees (VECs) nationwideshould be reduced from 33 to 20 under plans unveiled by Fine Gaeleducation spokesman, Brian Hayes. Mr Hayes said "the idea that, in a country the size of greaterManchester, we need 33 separate administrative structures ...
Cowen and Brown to hold new round of devolution talks
Dec 01, 2009; MARK HENNESSY ... TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen and British prime minister Gordon Brown areto hold a new round of talks in coming weeks with Sinn Fein and theDemocratic Unionist Party in an attempt to break the impasse overthe devolution of justice and policing to Stormont. However, the two, who held over ...
Numbers of Irish in UK set to rise with proposed census change
Dec 01, 2009; MARK HENNESSY ... ALTERATIONS TO next year's United Kingdom census rules couldallow several million people of Irish decent to declare themselvesas Irish - even if they were not born in Ireland, or carry Irishpassports. The changes, which followed tough negotiations between theFederation of Irish ...
