Teachers join day of strike action
More than 5,000 teachers angered by possible budget cuts have staged a protest outside the Department of Education during a national strike.
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Sexton to face South Africa ahead of O'Gara
Jonathan Sexton will start Ireland's clash with South Africa at Croke Park on Saturday after being preferred ahead of Ronan O'Gara at fly-half.
Underground DART plans on rack despite €3bn price tag
IARNROD Eireann will seek planning permission early next year to build an underground DART line in Dublin costing up to €3bn.
Priest held over sex abuse claims
A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s.
Irish Life & Permanent may get ‘substantial fines’ on Anglo scandal
Irish Life & Permanent said it may face lawsuits and fines stemming from its role in a scandal which claimed the top three executives at the mortgage provider.
TV career beckons for Jedward as lucrative offers roll in
'The X Factor' might be over for John and Edward Grimes but life could not be looking rosier for the Dublin twins.
Teen killed in car smash after road death funeral
A TEENAGER died in a car crash after he attended the funeral of one of the four girls killed in last week's horror smash.
New order in court as €140m legal 'Pantheon' opens doors
THE new €140m criminal courts complex, the largest State building to be constructed since the James Gandon-designed Four Courts in 1796, opens for business tomorrow.
2009 the deluge
Battle on to save priceless art
ART preservation experts are now battling to save priceless paintings housed at UCC's Glucksman Gallery after it was left under more than five feet of murky flood waters.
Bank lent £61.6bn to RBS and HBOS
The Bank of England has revealed it lent Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS £61.6 billion in a "dire emergency" at the height of the financial crisis.
Kiss: Irish must meet brutal South African style head on
Even if his squad are holed up in a south Dublin castle, Ireland's defensive coach Les Kiss was hardly lowering his guard when pointing out that matching South Africa's physicality will be a key element of Saturday's defining clash.
Entertainment
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to star in Woody Allen film
France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in the American director Woody Allen's next movie.
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US awards Taylor made for Swift
While Michael Jackson won a record four posthumous awards at Sunday night's American Music Awards, he couldn't beat Taylor Swift for top honours
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Sex and cheese as Sarkozys meet Simpsons
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have entered the only real pantheon of international celebrity - by being parodied in The Simpsons.
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Boyle's album chart dream
Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for 'Britain's Got Talent' was aired in April, appears set to have the biggest-selling album in Britain this year, music retailer HMV has said.
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Jordan is 'genuine' as she quits jungle show
'I'm A Celebrity' star Katie Price, AKA Jordan, told last night how she had decided to quit the jungle-based reality show after proving to the public she was "genuine".
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Glove proves a 'Thriller' at Jacko auction
THE rhinestone-encrusted glove worn by Michael Jackson when he first performed his moonwalk sold for $350,000 (€235,000) -- more than 10,000 times its original price.
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Dialogue on Brazilian dam
BRAZIL'S government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3bn (€11.6bn) hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock star and activist Sting said yesterday.
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Style icon Moss in trouble over motto
EATING disorder campaigners rounded on British model Kate Moss for saying she backed the motto "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", a slogan popular with pro-anorexia websites.
Scholar claims he has found real Shakespeare
A GERMAN academic claims to have uncovered the most conclusive evidence to date that the works of William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
Katie Price: 'I've been a right twit since divorce from Peter Andre'
Katie Price, aka Jordan, has apologised on I'm A Celebrity for behaving "like a right twit" since her divorce from Peter Andre.
Household finances: it's time for a budget squeeze
FOR the first time in recent memory, Irish consumers must start to rely on budgeting, not borrowing, to manage their household finances.
Probe may partly restore Cardinal's reputation
THE reputation of Cardinal Desmond Connell could be partially rehabilitated by the publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation into clerical sex abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin.
Flooding a result of neglect and greed
Every farmer knows that if you dig a drain you first have to figure out where the water is going to flow to. So it is important that when planning permission is given for houses that the water-table debt is taken into consideration.
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