Lack of funds forces voluntary job centre to shut

A job centre which has been run by volunteers for almost five months has been forced to shut down due to lack of funds,

writes Eoin English in the Irish Examiner

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‘Cut salt to tackle high blood pressure epidemic’

Salt in processed food should be reduced by regulation or taxation as there’s a “mass epidemic” of high blood pressure in the over-50s, a leading doctor with the Health Research Board has said,

writes Claire O’Sullivan in the Irish Examiner

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Court finds for TV news on Traveller eviction footage

British TV stations will not have to share unbroadcast footage taken during the evictions of Irish Travellers at Dale Farm last year, the High Court in London has ordered,

writes Mark Hennessy in the Irish Times

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Shatter demands withdrawal of Nazi analogy

MINISTER FOR Defence Alan Shatter demanded an apology in the Dáil from Independent TD Luke “Ming” Flanagan after he made remarks comparing the controversy over raised bogs with Nazi Germany,

writes Marie O’Halloran in the Irish Times

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Quarter of pupils have experienced web abuse

UP TO 25 per cent of school pupils have had experience of cyberbullying – either as a victim or as a bully,

writes Seán Flynn, Education Editor, in the Irish Times

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School faced dilemma over pupil expulsions

ANALYSIS: The hope among teachers is that the case will focus the minds of teenagers when it comes to cyberbullying,

writes Seán Flynn in the Irish Times

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Private asylum centres cost €58m

THE STATE spent €69.5 million housing and caring for asylum seekers last year, with the majority of funding used to pay for commercially owned housing,

writes Rowan Gallagher in the Irish Times

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Bullying ‘costs over €100m every year’

The cost of bullying in schools could be over €100m a year, a campaign group believes,

writes  Niall Murray, Education Correspondent, in the Irish Examiner

 

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Time to end silent suffering of gay students

OPINION : TODAY IS International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (Idaho), when governments, communities, families and individuals act to end discrimination and violence towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people,

writes Michael Barron in the Irish Times

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Minister to end alcohol sponsorship of sports

ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health Róisín Shortall has pledged. “I am committed to phasing that out over a reasonable period of time,” she said in the Dáil. There is “no room for ambivalence in our approach”,

writes Marie O’Halloran in the Irish Times

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