A MOTHER of six who claimed nearly €250,000 in social welfare payments, while she had hundreds of thousands of euros in the bank, has been jailed for three years.Mary Connors (36) claimed the money over the course of 14 years. In that time over €1.2 mill
A YOUNG Irish student has been found dead in a hotel in Japan but her exact cause of death remained unclear last night.Nicola Furlong (21), a Dublin City University student, travelled to Tokyo on an exchange programme last October and was studying in the
A Government department was questioned yesterday as to whether it was contributing to family poverty by having delays of up to 10 months in some social welfare appeals.The Department of Social Protection is also suffering a shortage of assessors to deal
A man who dressed up as his mother in a bizarre property fraud that involved doctoring her death certificate and cashing her pension cheques for six years after she died has been jailed for more than 13 years.Thomas Parkin, who was convicted on May 3 on
An Omagh teenager who went for a routine eye test and was subsequently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, has advised people to visit their opticians. Twenty year old Vanessa Keys from Omagh is urging people to have regular eye tests, as ‘you do not k
A STATE employee is being investigated on suspicion of snooping on individuals' financial data held by a government department.The Irish Independent has learned that an internal investigation has been launched in the Department of Agriculture after an em
WHO would be a younger sister? The older one gets the kudos, the best family trinkets and the calm air of moral superiority that settles over her shoulders like a silk cloak. In Kate Middleton’s case, they also snaffle the heir to the throne. Meanwhile,
A 78-year-old grandmother has had her pension cut off after winning €2.6m in the Lotto.Kathleen McLaughlin, from Redcastle in Co Donegal, was the toast of the country when she won the money in December and vowed to spend some of her winnings on a new sof
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