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THE Government dropped plans to increase taxes on the rich and powerful because of their “huge influence”, the country’s most senior union leader has claimed.
ELDERLY and disabled patients will no longer be provided with essential aids such as toilet frames, bed pans, commodes and drip stands in what has been described as a “new low” in crippling health cutbacks.
NEW drink-driving limits will be delayed for at least 18 months it was revealed last night as opposition parties accused Transport Minister Noel Dempsey of presiding over a “fiasco”.
DOLE processing times remain at an all-time high despite commitments by the Social Affairs Minister to commit more staff to speed up welfare payments.
THE Kerry town once voted by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top Ten places worldwide to retire has houses cheap enough that even reduced pension retirees can aspire to.
PRIME Time presenter Mark Little has insisted he has taken a year-long leave of absence from RTÉ to focus on new digital media opportunities, despite reports of a major row over his comparatively low salary at the station.
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown might not like them, Simon Cowell might even hate them but X Factor duo John and Edward won’t care as they belt their way through the Ghostbusters theme tune on tonight’s show.
DIVIDING public and private sector workers is merely a Government-inspired attempt to weaken the labour movement, was the key message from trade union leaders to tens of thousands partaking in ICTU’s National Day of Protest yesterday.
A “SEISMIC change in attitudes” is needed in the public sector if we are to overcome cuts in public services, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan said yesterday.
ALL regions of the country experienced a decrease in the number of people signing on the Live Register last month.
ONE-in-five people expect the economy to improve in the next six months as a poll shows consumers are beginning to perk up.
FORMER President Mary Robinson has appealed to the Irish government not to cut vital funds for overseas development as such a move could lead to an increase of violence against women.
A MAJOR medical monitoring group has claimed 80,000 Europeans could die from swine flu in the coming months, naming Ireland as one of the EU’s hotspots for the deadly pandemic.
EMERGENCY services have warned as many as one in four of their members could contract human swine flu when responding to sick people needing hospital care.
“I’VE always said there are some advantages to being over-65,” jokes Mary Patton, administrative co-ordinator at the HSE’s swine flu clinic in Mallow, Co Cork.
CAROLINE Heffernan is a 39-year-old from Tuam in Co Galway. She is also a cystic fibrosis sufferer.
BOYZONE have been honoured by gay campaign group Stonewall for the late Stephen Gately’s contribution to raising awareness.
THREE people were arrested and two were still being held last night after a triple Garda swoop led to an estimated €1.25 million worth of cocaine being seized by officers.
YOUNG children with special needs are being forced to wait up to three years to see a public dentist because of the HSE recruitment ban, according to the Irish Dental Association (IDA).
DISABILITY advocacy groups have expressed concern about how much of the money officially being allocated to the sector is actually being spent on disability.
AN armed robber suffered serious head injuries after staff at a jewellery shop and passersby thwarted a raid by a three-man gang.
UP to 80% of child abuse survivors availing of the state’s National Counselling Service (NCS) say their lives were transformed by the service.
AN ONLINE fundraising campaign was launched yesterday to help save the arthouse Kino cinema in Cork from closure.
HEALTH Minister Mary Harney said she could not accept that a surgeon could be left with nothing to do at a busy hospital.
THE owner of Blarney Castle has donated his entire family archive, some of which dates from the 17th century, to the Cork City and County Archives.
HOMEOWNERS who can no longer afford to pay the mortgage are voluntarily giving up the keys to their property as they see no other way out of the debt, according to a housing charity.
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