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  • Elderly cyclist killed in collision with car 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 ...

  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States 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 ...

  • Gardai appeal for information on death of young man in Dublin 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 ...

  • Irish cricketers could be heading to Pakistan 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 ...

  • McDowell talks up Rory McIlroy split with Horizon 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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Kes [Blu-Ray]

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  • Low number of prosecutions in clerical child abuse cases noted by report

    Fewer than one in 12 priests accused of child sex abuse has faced prosecution, according to latest annual report of the Catholic Church's child protection watchdog published ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 - ...

  • LGI in hunt for O2 Ireland paper says

    US-based Liberty Global Inc (LGI) is rumoured to be mounting a bid to take control of Irish mobile network operator O2 Ireland, owned by Telefonica of Spain, the Sunday Independent reports. To that end, the paper claims that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is involved in the process, while Telefonica's advisors are thought to include Citi ...

  • Ross ranks Bank of Ireland among best bets

    US billionaire Wilbur Ross has said he ranks his investment in Bank of Ireland as one of the best he has made. The septugenarian took a 9.9% stake in the bank two years ago alongside a consortium of other US and Canadian investors. In total the group bought just under 35% of Bank of Ireland, keeping it out of public ownership. Asked in a Bloomberg TV interview what his "best bet" ...

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