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Girl (12) taken into care in trafficking investigation
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
A 12-YEAR-OLD Nigerian girl has been taken into State care after being found in a house in north Dublin by detectives investigating suspected people-trafficking.
Ireland
Social Life
Woman dies, passenger escapes after car crashes into canal beside Boyne
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman died on Saturday night when the car she was driving went off the road and into a disused canal near the River Boyne in Co Meath.
Ireland
Social Life
Legal delay to €110m nursing home scheme
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
THE GOVERNMENT has signalled that money set aside to implement its "fair deal" on nursing home care could be spent on other areas because of ongoing legal problems with the legislation.
Ireland
Social Life
Peak performance raises €400,000 for charity
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
MORE THAN 500 mountaineering enthusiasts from across the State took part in the annual Four Peaks Challenge at the weekend, raising funds for the housing and homeless charity Focus Ireland.
Ireland
Social Life
Meeting to resolve dispute over property price publication
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
ORGANISATIONS WITH a vested interest in the property market will meet in Dublin today to seek to resolve a dispute over the publication of sale prices.
Ireland
Social Life
TUI says 'educational apartheid' schools should be named and shamed
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
SECOND-LEVEL schools which engage in the "educational apartheid" should be named and shamed, according to a confidential submission from the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) to the Department of Education.
Ireland
Social Life
Protests over transfer of cancer services
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
THREE PROTESTS took place at the weekend over plans to withdraw cancer services from locations in the midlands, the northeast and Dublin.
Ireland
Social Life
Government effort to entice arguing companies
08.06.2008 23:41
ireland.com
IRELAND IS to make an effort to host the out-of-court settlement of major commercial disputes, which deal with billions worth of business annually.
Ireland
Social Life
50,000 learner drivers face June 30th restrictions
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
MORE THAN 50,000 learner drivers are likely to be affected by the June 30th deadline ending the practice where some provisional licence holders are allowed to drive unaccompanied.
Ireland
Social Life
Man who tried to stop row dies after assault
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
A LIMERICK man who came to the aid of another man who was being assaulted has died in hospital.
Ireland
Social Life
Surge in numbers seeking financial aid
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
THERE HAS been a dramatic surge in the number of people on low incomes seeking financial help as a result of spiralling food and fuel prices, according to support groups.
Ireland
Social Life
Human rights body tells UN of poor state of Irish prisons
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
THE STATE'S human rights watchdog has told a United Nations committee that physical conditions in many prisons in Ireland are wholly inadequate and are in breach of prisoners' basic rights.
Ireland
Social Life
Ruling on freedom of access to data
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
INFORMATION COMMISSIONER Emily O'Reilly has ruled that a public authority may not levy unreasonable charges on members of the public under an EU directive giving freedom of access to information on the environment.
Ireland
Social Life
Teagasc project aims to replace wheat imports with Irish crops
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
A PROGRAMME WHICH could see Irish farmers growing some of the 100,000 tonnes of milling wheat that is currently imported each year has got under way.
Ireland
Social Life
Jon Bon Jovi captivates 50,000 fans
08.06.2008 23:40
ireland.com
A CLEARLY besotted young woman stormed the stage midway through Bon Jovi's In These Arms at Punchestown Racecourse on Saturday night and puckered up to lead singer Jon Bon Jovi.
Ireland
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