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Gormley introduces new energy-rating system for cars
19.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
A NEW energy-rating system for vehicles shows how driving a medium-sized car can help the environment and save money.
Ireland
Social Life
Cardinal's book will help 'realign lives'
19.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
A NEW work by one of Ireland’s foremost theologians will “challenge” readers through its strength of argument and passion for truth, delegates at a book launch in Dublin heard last night.
Ireland
Social Life
Paid paternity and parental leave urged to tackle work gender divide
19.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
CALLS FOR the introduction of paid paternity and parental leave have been renewed following the publication of a report showing women still do the bulk of unpaid care and housework despite their increased participation in the paid labour force.
Ireland
Social Life
Country barbers trim 50% off price of Dublin cousins
19.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
WELL-GROOMED Dublin men will be concerned to learn that they are expected to pay almost 50 per cent more than their country cousins for a simple wash, cut and blow dry, according to the latest figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Ireland
Social Life
Drive-in movies for Farmleigh fest
19.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
DRIVE-IN movies, a beer festival, live music and a book fair are among the free activities planned for Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park this summer.
Ireland
Social Life
Ballymun regeneration scheme success
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
TEN YEARS after ambitious plans to regenerate one of the country's most neglected urban blackspots were announced, the signs of progress are everywhere in Ballymun, Dublin.
Ireland
Social Life
Cori conference told of role of business
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
TOMORROW’S FIRMS will play a more proactive role in shaping society, a conference hosted by the Conference of Religious in Ireland (Cori) was told yesterday.
Ireland
Social Life
No stability tests done on 'Pere Charles'
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
A PRELIMINARY report into the loss of the Pere Charles fishing vessel with all five crew off the southeast coast in January 2007 is believed to have found that no stability tests were carried out after the vessel was modified.
Ireland
Social Life
Man died in custody due to misadventure
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
A CORONER has suggested reviewing the guidelines of providing foreign language versions of prisoners’ rights upon hearing that an Estonian man died after ramming himself at a steel cell door while in custody in a Garda station.
Ireland
Social Life
Brothers get life terms for murder of father of six
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
TWO BROTHERS who beat and stabbed a father of six to death in front of some of his children have both been given life sentences for murder.
Ireland
Social Life
'Two of the greatest thugs we've had for many, many years'
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
BACKGROUNDTwo men who have engaged in criminality all their lives have been jailed for life for murder, writes Ronan McGreevy
Ireland
Social Life
Man who raped schoolgirl jailed for 12 months
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
A FATHER of eight who plied a 15-year-old girl with 24 bottles of alcopops on the night she was celebrating her Junior Cert results and then videotaped her as he had sex with her has been jailed for 12 months.
Ireland
Social Life
Accused in hitman case claims she had been blackmailed
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
THE WOMAN accused of hiring a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons told gardaí she had been blackmailed into sending €15,000 to his co-accused's Nevada address, the jury at the Central Criminal Court was told.
Ireland
Social Life
Gardaí say McFarlane said he was at wood
19.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
MAZE PRISON escapee Brendan “Bik” McFarlane allegedly told gardaí that he was at a wood in Co Leitrim where kidnapped supermarket executive Don Tidey was held, the Special Criminal Court was told yesterday.
Ireland
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