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Moderator backs political progress
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
MEMBERS OF the Presbyterian Church in Ireland have been encouraged to be open to people from whom they had traditionally kept their distance, “acknowledging our differences, but building a shared future”.
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Ganley says tax issue is key to Libertas campaign
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
CORPORATE TAX: THE CHAIRMAN of anti-Lisbon Treaty group Libertas has pledged to put its claims that a Yes vote could jeopardise Ireland’s corporate tax regime “front and centre” of the debate on the treaty from now until polling day.
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Warning on economic downside of No vote
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
FRANKFURT MEETING: MINISTER FOR Finance Brian Lenihan has portrayed those campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty as "self-indulgent" and indifferent to the economic difficulties being experienced in Ireland and elsewhere.
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Business people support treaty, says Ibec
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
ATTITUDES TO TREATY: A SURVEY of Irish business people has found 87 per cent believe that endorsing the Lisbon Treaty is important for Ireland's business sector, although more than three-quarters said they were not completely familiar with the content of the treaty.
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Group warns of EU power over Irish citizens
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
NATIONAL PLATFORM: RATIFICATION OF the Lisbon Treaty would result in a “constitutional revolution” that would have deeply negative repercussions for Irish citizens, the National Platform asserted yesterday.
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The more voters are engaged, the less posters matter
02.06.2008 23:36
ireland.com
Only a few of the Lisbon Treaty posters are deemed a success by the experts. Ruadhán Mac Cormaic reports.
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Eamon steers Labour clear of the yacht club
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
POTS OF tea in shopping centres are all very fine, but there'll be no hobnobbing with the Opposition in yacht clubs for the leader of the Labour Party, thank you very much.
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REFERENDUM DIGEST
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
More news and events on the campaign trail.
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Last-minute tips for anxious students and worried parents
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
Exam advice from guidance counsellor, Brian Mooney.
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Confessions of a serial Leaving Certificate offender
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
EXAM DIARY: ALLOW ME to introduce myself. My name is Laura Brady, and I am a Leaving Cert addict. This June, I will sit my third Leaving Cert exam. I already have 1,000 points. They're utterly useless to me now. I'm contemplating selling them on eBay. Any bids?
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I blocked out everything else and became very single-minded
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
In the last two weeks before the exam I was doing about 15 hours of study a day, says Rosanna Davison.
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Irish fishermen tie up boats to back EU protests over costs and imports
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
IRISH FISHERMEN have begun to tie up their boats in support of a Europe-wide industry protest over rising fuel costs and the impact of non-EU imports.
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Department critical after Ramsay dives for sea urchins
02.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
THE DEPARTMENT of the Environment has said that it is “disappointed” that British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay did not contact it before scuba diving off the north Clare coast for sea urchins.
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