Swine flu jab for all after virus toll alert
EVERYONE in the country is shortly to be offered a free swine flu vaccination as health authorities brace themselves for a worst-case scenario of up to 100,000 new cases a week.
EVERYONE in the country is shortly to be offered a free swine flu vaccination as health authorities brace themselves for a worst-case scenario of up to 100,000 new cases a week.
This man was fighting for his life last night after being stabbed in the neck in Dublin city centre. Deirdre Keaney’s picture is a stark reminder of the violence that stalks our streets - not just in the dark hours but in broad daylight.
TWO women, one Irish and the other Ugandan, working with the aid group Goal, were kidnapped in Sudan's western Darfur region yesterday.
WORKERS will need to be prepared to make further voluntary cuts in their take-home pay, Taoiseach Brian Cowen signalled last night.
A FAMILY told yesterday of their amazing escape from a blazing home after it was struck by a massive bolt of lightning and destroyed.
DEVELOPER Sean Dunne has launched an audacious bid to buck the worst property slump in the history of the state in a move dubbed as "bizarre" last night.
THERE are no greater lovers of horseracing in the football fraternity than Alex Ferguson and Michael Owen, which seems fitting, because a lot is being wagered on their unexpected coming together at Manchester United.
Thousands of fans swamped a website to register for free tickets to a memorial service for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles as it emerged organisers of the singer's London shows staved off financial disaster by cashing in on public sympathy.
A GARDA investigation is under way after a house which was controversially designated to a Travellers' family was gutted in a suspected arson attack.
US Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan yesterday on the second day of the biggest US military operation here since the American-led invasion of 2001.
THE idea that Alex Ferguson's investment in Michael Owen is the desperate throw of a football man looking into the skull's head of a bleak and hopeless future is absurd.
Analysts have begun slashing their operating profit forecasts for Bank of Ireland after it signalled that intense competition for deposits and high market-funding costs are squeezing its net interest margins.
The mother of Michael Jackson's two eldest children vowed last night to fight for custody of her children.
Facebook, owner of the world’s largest social-networking site, will test simplified privacy settings and eliminate the site’s regional networks, an effort to quell concerns about the use of personal information.
Not all the opposition to the Lisbon Treaty is from right and left-wing fanatics, as the Government would wish people to think. Many have just concerns that have not been adequately addressed by our public representatives.
Drip, drip, drippity rumours are all you hear so far about how the Irish Government plans to keep Ireland afloat. It's like a task on Celebrity Big Brother.
Across from where I live, there is a lovely old square which contains three lovely old tennis courts. For most of the year, they lie empty, their net cords sagging, their filaments billowing in the wind.
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