Communities braced for more floods
Communities along the River Liffey are bracing themselves for further flooding as water levels rise upstream.
Monday, November 30 2009
Communities along the River Liffey are bracing themselves for further flooding as water levels rise upstream.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has claimed the Football Association of Ireland asked to be included in the World Cup finals as an extra team following Ireland's controversial play-off exit to France.
A waste disposal worker collecting a skip from one of the country's top security jails has been arrested after being found with a gun.
Gardai in Tullow are investigating a fatal road accident which occurred on the N80 at Kilbride, Ballon, County Carlow this morning at around 8am.
Philanthropic developer Niall Mellon has suffered a major setback to his plans to develop 85 new homes in Mount Anville, an upmarket area of Dublin's southside.
NIGHTCLUB hostess Rachel Uchitel yesterday vehemently denied any romantic link with the world’s top golfer, Tiger Woods.
A telegram from Eamon de Valera to his wife confirming his election win as MP a year after the Easter Rising has gone on public display.
A LOCAL authority has been criticised after it spent almost €3m to house just six families.
THE Bishop of Limerick was under mounting pressure last night to resign over his handling of child sexual abuse complaints while he worked in Dublin.
Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks may receive a combined €28.2bn for the toxic property loans they are selling to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).
THE SPECTRE of religious and racial intolerance was raised over Switzerland last night as a majority of voters backed a deeply controversial proposal to ban the building of minarets at mosques in a referendum which instilled fear among Muslims and shocked the Swiss government.
Sitting on the bench at the end of the game, having wreaked havoc on Arsenal, Didier Drogba spent the last five minutes signing autographs for the home fans.
The pop star Rihanna has advised women to have naked pictures of themselves taken – while they still can.
THE publication of the report of the Murphy Commission ought to have triggered an instant and simultaneous resignation of the surviving bishops and monsignors cited in the report rather than a display of stubborn obduracy in the case of some and silence, evasion and cunning in the case of others.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Desmond Connell have been in direct personal contact since last Thursday when the explosive Commission Report into the Archdiocese of Dublin's cover-ups of clerical child sex abuse ignited the biggest challenge ever to the moral authority and credibility of both the Vatican and the Irish hierarchy.
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