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Awards for teachers who go the extra mile
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS will receive awards over the next few weeks in recognition of their efforts in promoting science. There are 654 schools included in the ceremonies this year, the largest number yet - and an increase of 30 per cent on last year.
Ireland
Sciences
How higher pay attracts bright students to medicine
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
UNDER THE MICRSCOPE: Why do those in science, technology and engineering earn less than medics?, asks Dr William Reville
Ireland
Sciences
Facing up to harder times
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
THE IRISH economy has hit hard times. The evidence now is incontrovertible. From virtually every point on the economic compass, the news is bad. Economic growth is evaporating, unemployment is rising, consumer sentiment is weakening, the public finances are falling deeper into the red.
Ireland
Opinions
World food crisis
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
PROLONGED LOW world food prices have inhibited investment in food production and innovation. Suddenly this problem has become apparent over the last year, when soaring food prices have left many more of the world's population - an estimated 842 million people - hungry. It is a central issue in the Food and Agriculture Organisation's World Food Security conference in Rome, which concludes today. The problem has been reinforced by the recent large scale switching of agricultural land and resources to biofuels. Disagreements on this admittedly important matter should not obscure the need to make increased productivity a priority in food security policy.
Ireland
Opinions
Spare a thought for our long-suffering politicians
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
Nothing beats tramping the streets on a political canvass to see the public at its obnoxious worst, writes David Adams.
Ireland
Opinions
Now Obama must calculate the perils of choosing Clinton
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
Clinton as running mate could deliver key voters to Obama but should he select her with all her political baggage and record of attacking him? asks Denis Staunton.
Ireland
Opinions
Sustainable production can end food shortages
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
A fundamental re-think is needed to feed the world's rapidly growing population, writes John Gibbons.
Ireland
Opinions
Yes vote lets us tackle energy and climate issues together
04.06.2008 23:35
ireland.com
If you care about the world environment, you should vote Yes, writes Eamon Ryan.
Ireland
Opinions
Europe is trying to govern us by deception and ruse
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
Vote Yes and face big tax hikes by Brussels decree; Vote No and do the rest of Europe a big favour, writes Frederick Forsythe.
Ireland
Opinions
Just imagine joy is waiting for you somewhere
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
SCHOOL IS winding down and small children are staring out the windows at freedom and counting the days until the heavy hand of grammar and spelling will be lifted from their backs, writes Garrison Keillor.
Ireland
Opinions
An Irishman's Diary
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
WHEN the normally highbrow novelist Sebastian Faulks accepted the challenge of writing a James Bond book to mark this year’s Ian Fleming centenary, I wonder if he considered the option of sniffing glue first.
Ireland
Opinions
Milan make noises about Drogba and Shevchenko
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
SOCCER: MILAN BUILT on their apparent success in resisting Chelsea's interest in their coach, Carlo Ancelotti, by suggesting yesterday that they hoped to lure Didier Drogba and Andriy Shevchenko from Stamford Bridge.
Ireland
Sports
Clarke hopes to keep run going
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
GOLF EUROPEAN TOUR NEWS: DARREN CLARKE will be hoping for his recent revival to continue and to avoid a repeat of last year's misfortune in the Austrian Open near Vienna this week.
Ireland
Sports
Tyrone start with strong hand and light Harte
04.06.2008 23:34
ireland.com
GAELIC GAMES CHAMPIONSHIP 2008 NEWS: IF PEOPLE imagine Tyrone are a diminishing force in the football championship a short conversation with Mickey Harte would soon have them thinking otherwise. The Tyrone manager can be relied on to give a calm and measured assessment of where things are at, so it must be something of a warning sign when even he gets a little giddy with the excitement of the championship at hand.
Ireland
Sports
No honeymoon period for new Manchester City boss
04.06.2008 23:33
ireland.com
MARK HUGHES is under instructions to supply Thaksin Shinawatra with a minimum top-six finish, and qualification for Europe, at Manchester City if he wants to avoid the same fate as Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Ireland
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