www.iStockphoto.comDear old Dublin is not quite so dear anymore, according to a new survey analysing the cost of living in 214 cities worldwide. Ireland’s capital has been ranked the world’s 42nd most expensive city in the latest annual study by Mercer Consulting. It’s a long drop since 2008, when Dublin enjoyed the dubious honour of being among the top twenty of...
The recent talks between Northern Ireland’s political parties hinged on the issues of justice and policing. Between 1972 and the 1998, Northern Ireland was governed directly from Westminster. The power sharing assembly was able to assume governance of the province in 1998 thanks to the Good Friday Agreement. However responsibility for justice and policing was withheld...
2015 is the year set by the United Nations to achieve the targets set for the Millenium Development Goals in the year 2000. The 8 Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are broken down into 21 quantifiable targets. The problem is that the world is still a long way from meeting these important targets and we only have 5 years left.
The Charity Self Help Africa with particular...
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On the 11th of October, 2009, Fr. Michael Sinnott, a 79 year old Columban missionary born in the South-East county of Wexford, was abducted from his gated compound in Pagadian City on the island of Mindanao, which is the second largest island in the Philippines (see map).
He was finally released on the 11th of November. The Moro Islamic Liberation...
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Ireland will elect 12 of the 785 members of the European parliament on Friday the 5th of June. In the last election (2004) the seats were divided as follows Fianna Fail 4, Fine Gael 5, Labour 1, Sinn Fein 1 and independents 2.
We have 13 outgoing MEPs and will only have a chance to elect 12 which ads a bit of pressure in Dublin. The four outgoing MEPs...
An tAire Airgeadais, Brian Lenihan
When Finance minister Brian Lenihan (pictured) presented his budget to the public in October of last year he pulled no punches, in these “difficult and uncertain times…We face difficult choices. In making those choices we will be guided by the principles of fairness, sustainability and affordability. By the decision to bring...
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