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Elderly cyclist killed in collision with car
A man in his 80s has been killed in a road traffic accident in Co. Kildare. The man was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a car on the Dublin Road at Clane on Sunday afternoon. The driver of the car, reportedly in his twenties, attended Naas Garda Station for questioning but left the station on Sunday night without any charges being laid. A post-mortem is expected to be carried out on ...
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Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...
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Gardai appeal for information on death of young man in Dublin
Gardai have issued an appeal to the public for any information concerning a man whose body was found on Friday night in Dublin. The 37 year-old man, whose identity has not yet been disclosed, was reportedly shot in the back of his head. The man whose body was found in a field near Killanarden Hill around 9:00pm on Friday night had been missing for some weeks. Gardai have begun a murder ...
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Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians
Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...
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Irish cricketers could be heading to Pakistan
Ireland has given hope of reviving international cricket in Pakistan after it reportedly agreed to consider visiting the country to reciprocate Pakistan's one-day international (ODI) tour of Ireland. At a time when all the Test playing nations have written-off touring Pakistan, the International Cricket Council's (ICC) associate member Cricket Ireland (CI) gave a positive response on that ...
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McDowell talks up Rory McIlroy split with Horizon
Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world. For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 ...
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Breaches of data protection across state agencies
The Data Protection Commissioner has discovered significant, widespread breaches of data protection law during an audit of how information from the Department of Social Protection is shared with other government ...
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Shatter told about Wallace incident during garda briefing on penalty points
Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...
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Robert Fisk Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility
The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the mainland in a month's time to teach the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ...
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Hayes Government may settle for less than €300m target in pay talks
Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said that the Government may lower its savings target for public-sector wages from EUR300m this year to EUR250m."We're not going to be doctrinaire about this," he said. "What we want to see is the saving of a billion euro by 2015, and we're looking at alternative proposals in the context of those talks, which would obtain those ...
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