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Cowen keeps it in the FF family

Thursday November 19 2009

THE Taoiseach has appointed Maire Geoghegan-Quinn as Ireland's next Commissioner in Europe. If ratified, it will prove beyond all doubt, if proof were needed, that Mr Cowen and his Fianna Fail party are tribal to an extremely worrying degree.

Medicine aptitude tests may spark court challenge

Wednesday November 18 2009

UNIVERSITY presidents have warned that controversial changes in the selection method for entry to medicine could be challenged by disappointed students.

Reflecting on teenage years

Tuesday November 17 2009

A new website is aiming to help teenagers deal with issues like alcohol and drug use, school, friends and relationships, domestic abuse, death and family separation.

'Genda' curtain-raiser lifts gloom of Bundoran to give Brian a boost

Monday November 16 2009

HURLEYS, dragons and even TV's ubiquitous 'X-Factor' and the 'Jedward' twins reared their heads in the annual weekend get- together of the youth wing of Fianna Fail.

It's tough on the ordinary decent scam-merchants

Sunday November 15 2009

Buyer Beware is in that grand old tradition whereby various scam-merchants are hunted down by TV presenters. They are then confronted by the TV presenter -- in this case Philip Boucher Hayes -- and there is a very ugly scene.

Disability allowance claims soar

Sunday November 15 2009

The number of people who are claiming disability allowance has almost doubled in the last decade.

Child benefit helps Ivan get into college, funds Frances's Confirmation day and sends Tiffany to a speech therapist

Saturday November 14 2009

The slogan "we are where we are" should be sent to the naughty step and banned for at least three years. It's a recipe for stupidity and nowhere so much as in the social welfare debate, especially the symbolic value of child benefit and allowances.

Cowen 'does a Bertie' by playing Trap green card

Friday November 13 2009

PERHAPS fed up with Eamon Dunphy's monotonous outbursts about Ireland soccer boss Giovanni Trapattoni's tactics and methods, he could hold back no longer.

Dear Santa, I suppose a €245m gift bonus is out of the question?

Thursday November 12 2009

EAMON Gilmore was about as subtle as a psychedelic sledgehammer. The Labour leader had one aim in mind when he rose to his feet during Leaders' Questions yesterday morning -- and that was to paint the Taoiseach as a stingy, mean-spirited Government Grinch who is hell-bent on stealing Christmas.

Nothing in coffers for bonus as fraud fight falls short

Thursday November 12 2009

PENSIONERS will not be given any Christmas bonus this year after the Government last night admitted it has failed to claw back enough savings in a clampdown on social welfare fraud.

I'm self-employed and raising four beautiful kids on my own. For me, child benefit pays the bills

Thursday November 12 2009

December 9 lurks like Doomsday on the horizon, with uncertainty over cuts to child benefit looming like an executioner's axe, over the fragile, emotional and financial well-being of parents all over the country.