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Four days before Richard Bruton told Taoiseach Enda Kenny about Paul Appleby...
RICHARD Bruton waited an astonishing four days to tell the Taoiseach that Paul Appleby was retiring. Despite being told the Director of Corporate Enforcement’s shock decision last Friday, the...
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Darren Sutherland’s manager Frank Maloney to retire from boxing
LEGENDARY boxing manager Frank Maloney is to quit the sport. Just hours after an open verdict was recorded at the inquest into the death of Darren Sutherland – the Irish former Olympic medal-winning...
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Artist Louis le Brocquy dies
PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has led tributes to artist Louis le Brocquy who died today. The 95-year-old, self-taught modernist passed away at his Dublin home after struggling with illness for the past...
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Australian police crackdown on drunken Irish immigrants
POLICE in Australia are targeting GAA clubs as part of a crackdown on drunken Irish immigrants. The association has been asked to warn its 5,500 members in the country of the consequences of...
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1500 denied treatment as Mater Hospital Dublin slashes waiting lists
Have you been on a waiting list for more than a year and had your appointment with a hospital consultant cancelled or had the date for your operation put back? If so, please contact me in the strictest...
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Full text of NAMA chair Frank Daly’s Galway speech
Address by Mr. Frank Daly, Chairman of NAMA to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Galway Wednesday, 23 May 2012 Introduction Thank you for the invitation to address you today. It is a...
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EPA back Teagasc GM potato trials
That 8am release in full – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has today given consent to Teagasc, Oak Park, Co Carlow, to carry out field trials on a genetically modified (GM) potato line with...
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Collusion between UDR and loyalists warned about in 1980
THE Irish government was warned about collusion between the Ulster Defence Regiment and Loyalist paramilitaries in 1980 – some nine years before the murder of Pat Finucane. The human rights solicitor...
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If this helps just one person.
Folks. If just one of you pays any heed, there will be a point to posting this. Three days ago, I had a suspected heart attack and spent two days in a cardiac unit. They – the brilliant staff at …...
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State Papers 1985 confirm: Ireland was warned by top Thatcher aide that...
SECRET DOCUMENTS have confirmed for the first time that the British spied on Irish Embassy officials during the negotiations leading up to the Hillsborough Agreement. Garret FitzGerald was sent a...
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State Papers 1985: Singapore (but not Israel) could fly missiles over Irish...
THE STATE supported the transfer of military cargo by both Singapore and the UAE over Irish airspace but stopped the Israelis doing the same. National Archive documents due to be released on January 4,...
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State Papers 1985: Kerry Babies detectives slammed by their own Commissioner
GARDA BOSSES are claimed to have criticised detectives weeks before a tribunal investigated their handling of the infamous Kerry Babies case investigation. In cabinet briefing notes from November 1984...
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State Papers 1985: FitzGerald told Thatcher: Give us joint courts or...
GARRET FITZGERALD warned he would not sign the Anglo Irish Agreement if Margaret Thatcher didn’t agree to a joint courts system. And he said that if she didn’t agree to judges from both sides of the...
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State Papers 1985: Diplomatic dithering over search and rescue missions...
DIPLOMATIC DITHERING between Britain and Ireland cost the life of a canoeist on Lough Swilly in February 1985. It was also a contributing factor in the death of musician Phil Coulter’s brother Brian...
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