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PARKING REGIME BLAMED FOR TRADE FALL
3 weeks ago

IN Dun Laoghaire, Anne Joyce of the Dun Laoghaire Community Association says that more than 60 shops have closed in the main shopping areas in the town and 18 have closed in Dun Laoghaire shopping centre.Some traders blame a very tough parking regime in
Red Cross chief denies board members stepped down over PAC report
16 hours ago

The Secretary General of the Irish Red Cross, Donal Forde, has contacted us about our story last week in which we reported that six members of the board of the Irish Red Cross Society are stepping down, following a report by the Public Accounts Committee
Four stabbed in seaside brawl
2 days ago

FOUR people were rushed to hospital with serious stab wounds last night after a mass brawl at one of the country's best-known bathing spots.At least 15 people were involved in the row, which broke out shortly before 8pm at the popular seaside spot in San
An Post buys 23 Aviva branches
4 days ago

AVIVA has sold most of its branches to An Post's insurance arm One Direct.Some 23 Aviva branches will now become One Direct outlets, with 59 Aviva staff moving across to the An Post operation. Aviva is to retain just three branches -- in Dun Laoghaire, C
Taxpayers now face losses of up to €375m on council land deals
16 hours ago

Huge sums paid out for unused social and affordable housing sites during boomThe taxpayer is facing losses of up to €375m on lands bought by local authorities for social and affordable housing that were never built upon, the Sunday Independent can reveal
Ireland's squad building nicely for Weymouth
1 day ago

With the Olympic torch burning its way through Ireland in 10 days' time and the countdown to London 2012 well under way, the Irish squad for the sailing events in Weymouth has little enough time to adjust to its greatly increased size, with two new crews
Vanilla hosts celebrity-packed fundraiser to help baby Kasey Kelly
2 weeks ago

A STAR-STUDDED night of fashion and entertainment will be held in VanillaThe Hampton Hotel on Morehampton Road, Dublin, on Friday, May 18, in aid of baby Kasey Kelly, who is in Boston undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.Participants include TV prese
Life and death
5 days ago

• Two major crises in Africa are putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk.In Niger, six million people, more than half of whom are children, are facing starvation as a result of persistent drought.Ongoing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan is f