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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • Shatter made two attempts at breathalyser Taoiseach says

    Alan Shatter made two attempts to complete a breathalyser test when he was stopped at a Garda checkpoint some four years ago, Taoiseach Enda Kenny revealed ...

  • Government warns teachers’ pay will be cut if deal is rejected

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny warned that those teachers' unions which had not agreed to the Haddington Road proposals would be subject to the legislation which will go before the Oireachtas next week. Photograph: Yorgos ...

  • What’s on this weekend

    This year's writer's weekend takes place in Doolin Hotel. It is packed with workshops for poetry, songwriting, getting published and sports writing as well as talks and seminars by writers Colette Caddle, Terri Hooley, Peter Sheridan and Eddie Stack. Prices for workshops are around EUR25 and there are trad sessions and music throughout the weekend with free ...

  • €110m recommended for Aer Lingus pension scheme

    The Labour Court has recommended that Aer Lingus inject a once-off lump sum of €110 million to help plug the €750 million deficit in the joint Aer Lingus/DAA pension scheme. The recommendation is aimed at resolving a long-standing row over how the pension entitlements of Aer Lingus pensioners, employees and former employees can be best protected as the pension fund is no longer ...


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Melancholia

Melancholia

Lars von Triers Melancholia is being praised by many as a genuine late-season masterwork, but it strikes me as little more than an overlong, self-indulgent mishmash of gorgeous imagery and nihilistic overload. Von Trier has forged the majority of his career wallowing in darkness a ... ...

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  • Government repeats threat to slash wages if unions reject pay deal

    Minister for Education Ruair Quinn said today that opponents of the Haddington Road deal had to be respected. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish ...

  • BT Ireland reports 4 rise in revenue in 201213

    UK-based BT group has announced the reports for its all-Ireland operation for the financial year ending 31 March 2013, noting that rising demand for its fibre broadband and networked IT services helped boost the carrier's performance in Northern Ireland. Revenue for the period under review increased by 4% year-on-year ...

  • Irish-US entrepreneur George Moore dies

    Co Louth-born entrepreneur and philanthropist George Moore has died in Virginia in the US at the age of 60. Just last year he was named by Enterprise Ireland as the agency's start-up ambassador to the US. The successful business man sold his company TargusInfo in 2011 to Neustar for $580 million. Moore was a board member of the Ireland America Economic Advisory Board and the New Ireland ...

  • Council worker who accessed voicemail has case struck out

    Teresa Conlon , Dublin City Council's head of housing allocation. Dublin District Court heard that Ms Conlon's voice-mail messages had been intercepted over five-week period, from January 8th until February 11th, 2010. Doyle's sentencing had been adjourned until today . Judge Eamon O'Brien said: "I will strike it out with liberty to re-enter", adding, "I am ...

  • EU ‘not reflecting best interests of citizens’ President says

    President Michael D Higgins has called for a new ethical framework for Europe which would prioritise poverty, inequality and food security. Photograph: Dara Mac Dnaill/The Irish ...

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