Budget sweeteners
ALCOHOL prices will be reduced and a new car scrappage scheme will be announced as two minor sweeteners in today's draconian Budget 2010.
Wednesday, December 09 2009
ALCOHOL prices will be reduced and a new car scrappage scheme will be announced as two minor sweeteners in today's draconian Budget 2010.
The Tiger Woods drama has taken another twist with an ambulance being called to his home to take a woman to hospital, according to reports.
Two men are to be sentenced for setting a man alight as he slept on a train.
Richard Branson has unveiled his Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first commercial spacecraft, paving the way for thousands of tourists to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
AMERICA had Elvis, Britain had the Beatles -- we had Makem and Clancy.
SHAY GIVEN has revealed how a heated exchange in the dressing-room served as the inspiration behind Manchester City's impressive wins at home to Arsenal and Chelsea last week.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen has still not secured the support of newly independent TD Noel Grealish for today's crucial Budget vote.
THE Government is going to minimise cuts to health services in tomorrow's Budget by reducing the controversial drugs bill to pharmaceutical giants by €120m, the Irish Independent has learned.
THE national debt of Greece is just three notches above "junk" grade after another downgrade and a warning of more to come.
The past decade has been the warmest on record, according to data presented to the Copenhagen climate change summit.
GLOWING tributes were yesterday paid to a true Irish sporting legend after jockey Mick Kinane announced his retirement.
After speculation that her former husband Jude Law has rekindled his relationship with Sienna Miller, Sadie Frost is apparently indifferent towards his complicated love life.
In Budget 2010, our Government must do two essential and fundamental things:
From last Friday, all new housing developments in Dublin, by law, must be named solely in Irish. Dublin City Council, which in a decade of persistent and triumphant philistinism has undone so much of the history of the city, is now reaching its triumphant apogee: we can now pretend the capital is Irish-speaking by naming places in Irish.
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