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Councillors angry over impact of transport authority
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
THE NEW Dublin Transportation Authority (DTA), due to start work next January, will have the power to veto planning applications, direct local authority spending and instruct authorities to compulsorily purchase land, Dublin City councillors have been told.
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Tribunal calls for solicitor to be struck off
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
A SOLICITOR who misappropriated €1.6 million from his clients should be struck off the solicitors’ roll, a tribunal has recommended.
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Neighbour jailed for rape of teenager
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
A MAYO man who raped a neighbour on her 16th birthday as he brought her home from a disco has been given a 10-year sentence by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court.
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Talks 'ongoing' as Defence Forces ombudsman says office underfunded
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
THE MINISTER for Defence, Willie O’Dea, has said discussions over the resources provided to the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces are “ongoing” amid concern expressed by the ombudsman yesterday that she does not have enough resources to meet a significant increase in demand for her services.
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Ombudsman's report: key findings
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
The Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, Paulyn Marrinan Quinn SC, started operations in December 2005. It was set up in response to concerns of bullying and harassment in the defence forces.
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IMO hospital consultants vote to accept new HSE contracts
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
MEMBERS of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) have voted to accept the terms of a revised contract of employment put forward for hospital consultants by health service management.
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Major changes needed for hospitals to reach new standards on infection
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
HOSPITALS WILL have to substantially increase their staffing levels and surveillance systems if they are to meet new draft national standards for infection prevention and control published yesterday.
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Fighting infections: draft standards
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
1 Infection prevention and control should be effectively governed and managed.
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Warning against flouting US visa rules
03.06.2008 23:38
ireland.com
YOUNG PEOPLE who are planning to travel to the United States this summer have been warned that they could be arrested and deported if they overstay their visa or work while there on a holiday visa.
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Siptu calls on the Government to boost employment in construction
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
SIPTU HAS called on the Government to do more to promote employment in construction after a new report predicted that up to 55,000 jobs are to go in the sector by the end of next year.
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May warmest on record in many places
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
LAST MONTH was the warmest May on record in most places, forming part of a continuing trend towards global warming, according to Met Éireann.
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Fighting for the right to live together
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
Several thousand spouses of EU citizens who are not citizens of the union face deportation, writes Jamie Smyth, European Correspondent
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Trinity video lectures available online
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
TRINITY COLLEGE Dublin has become one of the first universities outside the US to make videos of lectures and other academic material available to download from the internet.
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Opera House to be star of Wexford festival
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
THREE FORGOTTEN masterpieces – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden), Carlo Pedrotti’s comic Tutti in Maschera and the 1960s gothic work, The Mines of Sulphur by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett – will be performed in full at this year’s 57th Wexford Festival Opera.
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Friends and colleagues mourn Terry Keane
03.06.2008 23:37
ireland.com
TERRY KEANE had set a bottle of Dom Perignon aside and had planned to have a “DP” party when she recovered from her last bout of illness, her friends recalled as they gathered in the sunshine at St Joseph’s Church, Glasthule, Co Dublin, yesterday.
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