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All 16-year-olds will be given a €100 voucher to spend on arts and music events next year under proposals set to be included in next month’s budget. The move is being touted as a costof-living measure as budget talks ramp up, with tensions...
There was a bit of an emergency in a few houses around Ireland during the week as we realised we are not emergency-ready. Most of us think, despite the state of things, that an emergency probably isn’t going to happen. The stark two first...
● Performers Eli Sherwood and Maria Da Paixao pictured among the puddles at the Discover Talbot Street Weekend Festival in Dublin city centre yesterday.
MetroLink officials believe more underground railways should be built in Dublin after the €15.75bn programme, which was approved in recent days by the Government, is finally delivered. It can als o be revealed that land cost increases of €280m...
We had spent a few days in New York, and when we got back, the weekend before returning to training with Munster, I went straight to Wilton, to see Granny Conroy in the nursing home. She had been going downhill since the World Cup. I’d gone to...
Saint Simon the Apostle was a missionary who ventured into hostile territory and, according to tradition, met a grisly end in Persia. Almost 2,000 years later, the church bearing his name in the heart of Silicon Valley has an Irish...
There has been a rise in the number of citizenship applications being refused or deemed ineligible by the Department of Justice. New figures show that 377 people were refused citizenship in the first 10 months of last year compared to 187...
All 16-year-olds will be given a €100 voucher to spend on arts and music events next year under proposals set to be included in next month’s budget. The move is being touted as a costof-living measure as budget talks ramp up, with tensions...
