Public servants are queuing up for social welfare in an effort to make ends meet. Clerical officers and staff officers are applying in their droves and qualifying for emergency social welfare assistance to meet mortgage repayments and household bills. [...more]
Displaying once again the remarkable courage and emotional maturity which was commended by the trial Judge Peter Charleton the couple at the centre of the horrific attack and rape by Polish man Edward Piotrowski (45) have spoken out for the first time. The pair have broken their silence to encourage other women who are victims of rape to come forward, put their trust in the authorities and seek justice. [...more]
Fire personnel in Offaly maintain that 999 calls for assistance in badly flooded regions around Banagher and Shannonbridge last week were vetted, and dispatch of tenders declined due to efforts to cut costs and reduce the number of callouts from small stations. The emergency calls for assistance to aid with evacuations and chronic flooding came at the same time as the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen was touring parts of west Offaly to examine flooding in the Shannon basin in person. [...more]
The Sacred Heart School in Tullamore has been forced to hold a lottery to allocate places at the all girls school for next September. The raffling off of school spots has infuriated parents in the Taoiseach's home town as over 50 students have missed out. [...more]
The country's best paid broadcaster has come clean on his views on politicians, the Taoiseach, the Greens and George Lee just days before he goes to air with his latest television enterprise as anchorman on RTE's new flagship current affairs programme, The Frontline. He also owns up that he didn't watch his successor Ryan Tubridy live on his first Late Late but preferred instead to go out and tape the programme. [...more]
Knife crime is out of control, or is it? Recent tragic cases of fatalities and other serious stabbing incidents have hit the headlines but the fact is we don't know the half of it according to senior doctors in the frontline. [...more]
"I have been inside the police cordon, with a television crew putting questions to Brian Cowen, while taking my medication in Brussels but I wasn't allowed come to Ireland to cover the Lisbon Treaty referendum. The only Irish politician who replied to me was Joe Costello, the rest of them just run for cover when they hear the word cannabis," explains a deflated but undaunted Noel McCullagh. [...more]
I find it extremely worrying that you can now buy a chicken cheaper than a pint of beer - Jim Power Economist Eating is an agricultural act - Wendell Berry [...more]
Darina Allen wades into supermarkets versus suppliers row to back Irish farmers 'We don't have a God given right to cheap food' [...more]
Mannix Flynn calls for Louise Donlon to resign amid claims of censorship at the Dunamaise Arts Centre counters by citing child protection concerns "They will not say the times were dark; but rather, why were our poet's silent?" - Brech [...more]
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