World / Social Life
WTO veto not under threat, says commission
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
REFERENDUM COMMISSION: IRELAND'S RIGHT to veto World Trade Organisation talks and maintain Constitutional safeguards on abortion will not be threatened by passage of the Lisbon Treaty, the Referendum Commission has said.
Ireland
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Lenihan refuses to withdraw 'price whingers' remark
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
MINISTER FOR Finance Brian Lenihan came under opposition pressure to withdraw his assertion that consumers and businesses should stop “whingeing” about rising fuel prices.
Ireland
Social Life
Man (20) who fatally stabbed friend given eight years for manslaughter
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
A 20-YEAR-OLD south Dublin man who killed his friend with a single stab wound has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court.
Ireland
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Stabbing victim's family says no sentence would be long enough
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
THE FAMILY of a young man killed during an argument with a friend in Irishtown, Dublin last year said yesterday that “no sentence would be enough”.
Ireland
Social Life
In-flight US visa waiver to end in January
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
THE IN-FLIGHT visa waiver system, which allowed Irish citizens to complete forms for entry to the US after they had boarded their flight is to end from next January, the American embassy in Dublin has confirmed.
Ireland
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President celebrates diaspora's place in 'that most Irish of English cities'
04.06.2008 23:49
ireland.com
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese yesterday paid tribute to the generations of emigrants who helped make Liverpool "Ireland's other capital city" and told members of the city's Irish community that "the sea between us is not a barrier to our bond of kinship".
Ireland
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€10 Aer Lingus fare hike on US flights
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
AER LINGUS is to increase its fuel surcharges on transatlantic flights for the second time in a month.
Ireland
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TD 'deeply sorry' over his drink drive arrest
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
FIANNA FÁIL TD Christy O'Sullivan has said he is "deeply sorry for and embarrassed" by his arrest on suspicion of drink driving earlier this week.
Ireland
Social Life
Mourners told of the loving mother behind Terry Keane's public face
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
FORMER FASHION editor and social columnist Terry Keane had a colourful and controversial persona but the real person within remained elusive to the public, mourners at her funeral were told.
Ireland
Social Life
Cervical cancer vaccine needs go-ahead
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
A formal immunisation programme against cancer-causing HPV will raise complex concerns
Ireland
Social Life
Cervical cancer vaccine needs go-ahead
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
ANALYSIS: A formal immunisation programme against cancer-causing HPV will raise complex concerns, writes Dr Muiris Houston.
Ireland
Social Life
New best practice code for aid groups
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
A NEW voluntary code of corporate governance for Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) has been published.
Ireland
Social Life
Some lodgements came from bets on horses
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
MAHON TRIBUNAL: STERLING SUMS lodged to the account of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 1994 were the proceeds of bets on horses and of income he exchanged with Manchester businessman Tim Kilroe, the Mahon tribunal heard yesterday.
Ireland
Social Life
Ahern too busy to tell former secretary about error
04.06.2008 23:48
ireland.com
STERLING TRANSACTIONS: FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has said he was too busy to tell his former secretary, Gráinne Carruth, that she had made a mistake when she had denied she carried out sterling transactions on his behalf.
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