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.
Wednesday, November 25 2009
More than 5,000 teachers angered by possible budget cuts have staged a protest outside the Department of Education during a national strike.
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.
IARNROD Eireann will seek planning permission early next year to build an underground DART line in Dublin costing up to €3bn.
A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s.
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.
'The X Factor' might be over for John and Edward Grimes but life could not be looking rosier for the Dublin twins.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, aka Jordan, has apologised on I'm A Celebrity for behaving "like a right twit" since her divorce from Peter Andre.
FOR the first time in recent memory, Irish consumers must start to rely on budgeting, not borrowing, to manage their household finances.
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.
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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