Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
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- NewsBank
- Publication date:
- 2022-08-31
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Latest documents
- Redress scheme for Stardust victims’ families ‘likely’, says Tánaiste
SARAH BURNS
- A plant’s-eye view of the planet predicts new ecosystems
Plants are the ultimate in climate detectors. The temperature and rainfall of a region, how many frost days occur per year, and how variable the seasons are, determine what kinds of plant can occur in a particular climate. Indeed, all the world’s climatic zones can be classified according to how suitable they are for particular kinds of plants: a plant’s-eye view of the planet.
- US says floating pier could be used for aid to Gaza in weeks
MICHAEL JANSEN
- Ex-soldiers resume military training in Libya
CONOR GALLAGHER Crime and Security Correspondent Former soldiers of the elite Army Ranger Wing (ARW) have resumed military training operations in Libya in apparent breach of international sanctions, despite warnings from the Irish Government.
- Food delivery riders could be classed as direct employees under new EU rules
JACK POWER
- Cyclist and motorcyclist killed in separate road collisions
A female cyclist and a male motorcyclist were killed in separate road traffic incidents in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, and Toureenfineen, Co Cork yesterday morning.
- Spanish PM to consider role as wife investigated
GUY HEDGECOE
- Mother of girl (11) who died by suicide took case to highlight mental health system
The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died by suicide has spoken in the High Court about how her daughter had struggled and they sought help in the weeks before her death.
- Veteran puts an end to Harris’s haring around
There is a certain woolliness around the balaclava these days, and the Taoiseach isn’t wearing it.
- Spooked military horses bolt through London
Military horses caused “total mayhem” in central London after they were spooked by builders moving rubble.
Featured documents
- THE LATE SUMMER MURDERS
Britons John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans first met in prison in England in the 1970s. In the long hot summer of 1976, they drove around Ireland, executing their grotesque pact. By the end of that time, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, both 23, had been murdered....
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- How does social housing investment compare with being a traditional private landlord?
There may have been a public outcry when a number of housing estates were snapped up by international investors of late, but it's not just institutional funds that are investing in social housing by buying up estates and apartment blocks to lease back to local authorities....
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Recently in the Oireachtas, Pádraig Rice of LGBT Ireland delivered a presentation called A Year of Hate. Representing the Coalition Against Hate Crime, 22 civil society organisations, he was briefing TDs and Senators who were considering Ireland's first hate crime legislation....
- PIAB damages awards have almost halved since guidelines adopted
Two brothers who suffered similar minor injuries in a motor accident had their claims assessed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) last year. One claim was in ahead of the other, which was awaiting a medical report....
- Four years, five courts, 29 judges: the endless legal battles of the Burkes of Castlebar
Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without at least one member of the Burke family from Co Mayo appearing in a courtroom....
- Proposals aim to make civil justice system more accessible after lengthy review
Legal briefs in the 1980s fitted into large brown envelopes but they began arriving from 1995 in boxes that have been "multiplying at an alarming rate" in the years since, Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton lamented in a 2015 article advocating more precise claims and tighter management of...
- COURTS GET BACK TO BUSINESS
Convicted murderers Graham Dwyer and Patrick Quirke will seek to overturn their convictions in separate appeals set for hearing in the new law term opening next month....
- Extreme pornography now a routine factor in child sex offender cases
Child protection experts have been warning about the dangers smartphones and pornography pose to young people for almost as long as there have been smartphones....