Ireland ranks last out of 36 developed countries for investment in education as a measure of our national wealth or gross domestic product (GDP), according to latest OECD data. Economists say the presence of multinationals distorts our GDP figures, but education unions say the figures confirm the extent of under-investment in our schools. The annual…
Source: PA THE WINDOW OF opportunity for the UK Government and European Union to make changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol before the DUP collapse Stormont is closing, the region’s First Minister has warned. Last week, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson threatened to withdraw his ministers and bring down the power-sharing institutions if his demands over…
Last week, a convicted murderer who tried to suffocate his wife in her west Cork home avoided further jail time despite the horrifying brutality of the attack.Marius Rucinskas received a suspended 18-month sentence and essentially walked free from court.He had been remanded in custody on the charge for almost one year already and Judge Seán…
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Any cull of Dublin’s gull population would be ‘illegal and unwarranted’, according to Birdwatch Ireland. It comes after fresh calls for a cull from another Dublin city councillor. On Lunchtime Live this afternoon Fine Gael Councillor Paddy McCartan said he was “shocked” at the number of gulls he encountered while out in Howth yesterday –…
Taoiseach Micheál Martin gave Emmanuel Macron a special, limited edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses as a gift when the French president visited him at Government Buildings on Thursday. After bilateral talks and an outdoor press conference, they took a leisurely walk to Trinity College, pausing to listen to a piper and fiddler in front of…
You might not know the singer but you will more than likely recognise the song. What a Difference a Day Makes was popularised by Dinah Washington in 1959, having been written initially in Spanish by Maria Grever a quarter of a century earlier. 24 hours, brought the sun and the flowers where there used to…
AN Italian conman posed as a fashion photographer in Ireland to help run a multi-million euro Europe wide fraud scam. Using a bogus name, Giuseppe Diviccaro, 45, who was living in Glasnevin, north Dublin, and also operated in Belfast, boasted that he was an international photographer based in Dublin, Venice and Lagos in Nigeria. 5Giuseppe…
Cork 1-37 Kilkenny 1-32 A MARATHON HURLING afternoon of extraordinary entertainment culminated in a Cork success as they eventually outlasted Kilkenny. Robbie O’Flynn with Padraig Walsh and Conor Fogarty. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Kieran Kingston’s team summoned the energy and enthusiasm to pull clear, Patrick Horgan top scoring with a massive haul of 0-15 while the…
Research into natural products is on the rise again as scientists in Ireland become 21st-century “medicine hunters” searching for ingredients for drugs, cosmetics and functional foods in Irish boglands, coastal waters and other terrains. The traditional use of plants in medicines, cosmetics and food predates both western medicine and scientific research. But as scientists began…
