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EU food labelling regime provokes debate
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
A DISAGREEMENT on the importance of food labelling in the fight against obesity surfaced between small and large business groups at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Scrutiny yesterday.
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Man to be charged with rape of 86-year-old in Monaghan
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
A MAN is expected to appear before the courts as early as this morning to answer charges relating to the rape of an 86-year-old woman who was subjected to a lengthy ordeal in her home in the early hours of Monday morning. The chief suspect in the case is well known to gardaí.
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Greens deny cut in 3-seat electoral areas help party
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
THE DRAMATIC reduction of three-seat local electoral areas from 32 to just three before next year’s local elections will favour the Green Party, Fine Gael sources have claimed.
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Fewer schoolgirls feel they are too fat
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
THE NUMBER of Irish schoolboys reporting they feel too fat is growing, but among schoolgirls the number feeling this way is decreasing, according to a major new report on the health and lifestyle of school-age children published yesterday.
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Health behaviour
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
The main points of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children report.
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Rise in number of children suffering bullying in school
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
THE NUMBER of children in the Republic who are being bullied at school is rising, according to new research published yesterday.
Ireland
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Funding logjam delays homeless strategy
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
A NEW Government strategy to tackle homelessness may not be published until senior officials are confident that funding shortages which are affecting dozens of new homeless services are resolved.
Ireland
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HSE chief says prompt discharge dates will free up beds
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
PATIENTS GOING into hospital in six months’ time will be given a date for their discharge within 24 hours, as well as dates for scans or other tests they need to have carried out while admitted, Health Service Executive chief Prof Brendan Drumm said yesterday.
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Undiagnosed diabetes 'prime cause of blindness'
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
POOR LEVELS of diagnosis and poor treatment of diabetes was causing unnecessarily high levels of blindness and amputations among working-age people, an Oireachtas committee has been told.
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New plan calls for free condoms in HIV-risk situations
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
FREE CONDOMS should be provided across a range of targeted health settings to help reduce the spread of HIV and Aids, a new national action plan has recommended.
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Hip-hop monks spread the word at Red Cow Inn
17.06.2008 23:44
ireland.com
THE MONKS of Moyross brought “Jesus rap” from the Bronx to about 100 young people at Dublin’s Red Cow Inn last night in a “Catholic underground” event.
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Opposition dismiss additional Dáil week as 'empty gesture'
17.06.2008 23:43
ireland.com
THE GOVERNMENT and Opposition are at odds over the decision that the Dáil will sit for an extra week in early July.
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Minister condemns 'ruthless' junta
17.06.2008 23:43
ireland.com
BURMA’S MILITARY rulers were described as a “ruthless regime” last night by Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin who said the junta had “turned its back on its people as it relentlessly pursues its desire for power and its greed for the country’s riches”.
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Ex-soldier tells court how he saw colleague shot dead
17.06.2008 23:43
ireland.com
A FORMER Army Corporal told a court yesterday of the last moments of an Army private who died in a shoot-out with the kidnappers of supermarket executive Don Tidey almost 25 years ago.
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