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Call for tougher penalties on drug dealing tenants

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has called for tough new legislation to help localauthorities tackle drug dealing tenants.

Labour wants President to intervene on crime bill

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

PRESSURE mounted last night for the President to make a rare intervention in party politics and send a controversial crime crackdown bill to the Supreme Court.

Airtricity fuels price war with ad campaign

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE electricity price war is set to heat up as renewable energy firm Airtricity targets domestic customers in a major new ad campaign.

Bord Snip Nua targets consultants pay deal

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

HIGHLY paid hospital consultants appeared to be on a fresh collision course with the Government last night as their lucrative pay deal was targeted by An Bord Snip Nua.

State urged to end jail for failure to repay debts

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

PEOPLE who face court or jail for non-payment of debt often suffer traumatic stress, are frightened their children will be taken into care and are ashamed to have their financial difficulties discussed in a public forum, a major new report has found.

Union leaders back electricians’ strike

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE nation is facing into possibly the most debilitating strike in a generation as union leaders last night fell in behind 10,500 electricians who will pull the plug today on over 200 construction sites and factories across the country.

Non-native plants to be banned from sale

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A RAFT of plants are to be banned from sale in garden centres later this year as the Department of the Environment moves to curb the damage inflicted on Irish wildlife by the importation of non-native species.

Prisoner’s face slashed in prison hostage crisis

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A PRISONER’S face was slashed after he was taken hostage by fellow inmates in the latest escalation of the overcrowding crisis at Mountjoy Jail.

Swine flu vaccines set to cost €90m

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A SWINE flu vaccine is set to be purchased at a cost of almost €90 million andwill be first administered to those “most at risk” of infection.

Efforts intensify to free kidnapped aid workers

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

EFFORTS to free kidnapped aid worker Sharon Commins intensified last night amid growing uncertainty about those responsible for the abduction.

Mediation funds cuts to cost state ‘millions’

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

TAXPAYERS face a multi- million euro bill because government neglect has pushed a service designed to ease the pain and cost of divorce to the brink of collapse, TDs last night warned.

Struggling support groups appeal for delay in publication of abuse report

IrishExaminer.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

SUPPORT agencies struggling to cope with increasing numbers of victims of sexual abuse have appealed to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to delay the publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report into child sex abuse.