Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) back issues from March 2007:
BEAR WITH THE BULL.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: PAT BOYLE DUBLIN share prices continued to slide yesterday as investors declined to follow the lead given by markets in the US which bounced back shortly after the opening bell. The latest stock market blip should have taken nobody by surprise, as numerous ...
Every parent's worst nightmare.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Melia IT's every parent's worst nightmare. Yesterday it came true for the family of missing Dubliner Shane Coughlan. All morning they had watched and prayed as garda divers searched the Grand Canal in Dublin for the body of their 18-year-old son. ...
Poignant memory of double loss at same sad spot just a decade ago.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Melia A MEMORIAL stands downstream from where garda divers spent much of yesterday combing the Grand Canal for the bodies of two young Dubliners. Flanked by flowers, it overlooks the spot where two young boys met a tragic end just 10 years ago after one ...
Michael Smurfit is to 'pass go' again.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom McEnaney SIR Michael Smurfit, the outgoing chairman of Smurfit Kappa, will receive an EU8.25m severance payment when he steps down as non-executive chairman of the packaging group. Mr Smurfit, who joined his father's firm Jefferson Smurfit in 1955, will ...
Record year for buoyant IL&P.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cyril Hardiman BANCASSURER Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) has posted record results for 2006, beating consensus stock market estimates by some 2pc. The group remains confident of notching up further growth this year but has cautioned the market not to expect a ...
Profits soar 45pc at Halifax parent.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cyril Hardiman PROFITS of Bank of Scotland Ireland (BOSI) soared 45pc to EU213m before tax last year despite the ongoing cost of establishing its retail banking arm, Halifax. All of this growth was derived from the group's core business banking, commercial ...
C&C slumps 10pc as forecast disappoints.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora SHARES in Bulmers manufacturer C& C finished down 9.7pc yesterday at EU10.50, having slumped 12pc earlier. The stock went into free-fall after profit forecasts from the company missed some analysts' expectations in a downbeat trading statement. ...
Cider losing some bubbles.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: AILISH O'HORA A DARLING of the stock exchange in 2006, C&C has not found 2007 to be the best year so far. The share price slump yesterday was the second since the beginning of the year. Analysts said yesterday that C&C's share price performance is dominated ...
Eircom expected to up line rental by year-end.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora TELECOMS operator Eircom is expected to increase line rental by the end of the year. Commenting on the com-pany's quarterly results, chief executive Rex Comb said that an increase was not on his immediate radar and wouldn't happen "for the next ...
Consumer confidence takes a dive.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan CONSUMER confidence plunged to the lowest level since August as the recent spate of job losses dented economic optimism. Consumers were still reasonably happy with their own finances, but their views on employment prospects dimmed significantly ....
Mystery shares buyer at Greencore.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom McEnaney A MYSTERY bidder may be building up a sizeable take in sandwich company Greencore. Shares in the food company did not rise yesterday, but nor did they fall on a day when many Irish stocks appeared on screens in red. It is understood that one ...
Dublin Port sees record volumes.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle FIGURES from Dublin Port show that the highest volume ever passed through in 2006, with total throughput standing at 29.2m tonnes, up 8.7pc on 2005. Imports accounted for 19.1m tonnes, a rise of 8.9pc, and exports were up 8.3pc at 10.1m tonnes. ...
Insuring against a really sick health service down the road.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: BRENDAN KEENAN I blame Charlie Haughey meself. One of the many great things attributed to the Great Man is the decision to make hospital care free for everyone. Before that, it was means-tested, just like the medical card. I remember the change well, having ...
Ireland ranks well for high wages, low tax.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan IRELAND has the fifth-highest minimum wage in the developed world -- but the lowest tax on it. But despite high wages and low taxes, high prices in Ireland means an average worker's standard of living ranks only 12th among the 30 countries of ...
ATTACKING HACKING.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: SHANE HICKEY WITH the numerous costs associated with starting up a new business, establishing a secure network is probably not at the top of the priority list. However, as a company grows and the number of users rise, the susceptibility of the network to ...
Solid economic outlook bodes well for IL&P.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: CYRIL HARDIMAN WHEN Irish Life & Permanent picked the date to announced its 2006 results, the stock market was a very different place. Record results showing operating profit growth of 26pc to EU529m, a rate of growth a couple of points ahead of the median ...
Markets.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: PAT BOYLE THE Dublin market opened another 2.5pc lower yesterday as the sell-off continued and investors ignored the bounce on Wall Street. There was something of a recovery staged later on, when bargain hunters emerged to take the ISEQ Index back from its low point -- ...
'Investors appreciate we don't have all our eggs in one basket'.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: JIM AUGHNEY BARRY O'Connor's approach to developing McInerney as a regional house-builder in Ireland, the UK and Spain is quite simple. ''We spend the whole time playing the capital employed game,'' he explains. O'Connor, a native of Greystones in North ...
Seeing the shakeout in context.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: CYRIL HARDIMAN FEELING a bit worried by wobbly stock markets? Well, you are not on your own. Anybody who is invested -- either directly or through some of the myriad of funds listed on this page -- is bound to be a bit concerned. However, the turn ...
Jobs, prices fall but ECB talks up rate rise need.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan INFLATION and unemployment in the euro area fell in January, but European Bank Governors continued trying to persuade governments and citizens that more interest rate rises are needed. Their case was not helped when the European Union's ...
Five more interest rate hikes forecast.(FRONT PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor HARD-pressed householders could face as many as five more interest rate increases - starting next Thursday. That many European Central Bank rises would leave most mortgage rates at 5.85pc. Such a series of ...
Dressing-down for Croker streaker.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tim Healy CROKE Park streaker Paul Flaherty got a dressing-down yesterday from a judge who told him he would not get away with simply paying money to charity. The 19-year-old apprentice plumber, who stripped off during the first floodlit game at Croker, will ...
Best books list shows we still love classics.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fergus Black YOU are stranded on a desert island with no TV, radio, ipods or computers. All you have are 10 books in your suitcase that have shaped your life and character and that you could not life without. What books would they be? Some modern-day ...
EU250m computer fund 'not realistic'.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: writes Katherine Donnelly THE Government's EU252m fund for computers in schools is merely one-third of what is actually needed, according to second level school managers, writes Katherine Donnelly. They have warned that we will be the dunces of Europe if ...
Time-warped Bertie plays tiddlywinks.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: CIARAN BYRNE THE bell sounded at 10.30am and class started. As a couple of dozen schoolgirls took their places in the Dail visitors' gallery yesterday, Enda Kenny got straight to it. Children all over Ireland were "getting hammered" on drink and ...
Our teenagers are the happiest in world.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Katherine Donnelly IRISH teenagers are among the happiest in the world. However, they also binge drink and take far more illegal drugs than those in other countries. A generally healthy picture of Irish children has emerged in a new international ...
Dead woman assaulted before.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anne-Marie Walsh UK police have confirmed that an Irishwoman found dead with her family in a London flat last week was the victim of a previous domestic violence incident. They said they had been seeking a suspect following an attack on Margaret Ward (29), of ...
Public given another chance to query EU300m marina proposals.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Melia A PUBLIC hearing into a controversial marina development in Co Wicklow will re-open at the end of the month. The move comes after An Bord Pleanala, using new powers, suggested changes to the EU300m project at Greystones planned by Wicklow County ...
Rising costs almost wipe out farmers' 5pc gains.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan PRICES paid to farmers rose by almost 5pc last year - but the increases were almost cancelled out by rising costs for energy, fertilis-ers, feed and seed. Potato prices rocketed by 62pc because of low supplies, while cereals were up 14pc due to ...
Dervish bring Spring to Garden County.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anne-Marie Walsh IRELAND's blossoming bid for the Eurovision hopes to come up smelling of roses by choosing Aughrim for a promotional videoshoot. Sligo-based sextet Dervish chose the Wicklow town rather than a location in their home county to film footage for ...
Windfall of EU84m in care home refunds unclaimed.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent UP to 4,000 residents of public nursing homes have yet to claim a windfall of around EU84m from the government's refund scheme. New figures show that although 14,000 residents are entitled to claim nursing home refunds after ...
'Problem-solving' courts proposed.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dearbhail McDonald Legal Affairs Correspondent SPECIALIST courts to deal with youth justice, domestic violence, drugs offences and mental health matters may be introduced in Ireland for the first time. The prospect of dedicated, problem-solving courts, ...
We're a nation of jetsetters as foreign holiday trips soar.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan Consumer Affairs Correspondent THE jetset lifestyle is attracting more and more Irish people with spending on foreign jaunts rising by 33pc last summer. And the number of people travelling abroad to their own holiday home almost doubled from ...
Two Neary doctors bid to clear their name.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent THE Medical Council said yesterday it will vigorously defend a High Court challenge brought by two obstetricians found guilty of professional misconduct. The proceedings lodged by Prof Walter Prendiville of the Coombe ...
'Unique' Irish-bred lamb now protected foodstuff.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan Consumer Affairs Correspondent CONNEMARA Hill Lamb has become the latest Irish foodstuff to join an elite band of European products that cannot be produced anywhere else in the world. Only lambs born and reared in the region can be sold as ...
CONTINUATION: Interest rate hikes: five more are forecast.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... ing set by the ECB. Next week's anticipated increase will bring the standard ECB rate to 3.75pc, which would translate into around 5pc for many borrowers. MABS spokesman Michael Culloty said young families, who had just started out on their mortgage, would be hardest ...
Compensation for sick miners urged.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: writes Gene McKenna TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has been urged to introduce a compensation scheme for former coal miners who have suffered ill-health because of the conditions in which they had worked, writes Gene McKenna. North Tipperary Fianna Fail TD Michael ...
Union anger as Ahern tells companies watchdog it must wait for extra staff.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Frank Khan and Fionnan Sheehan SOME businessmen think the Director of Corporate Enforcement (DCE) is doing his job "far too well", the Irish Congress of Trade Unions claimed last night. The ICTU made its comments after Taoiseach Bertie Ahern all but dismissed ...
Billionaire O'Brien was blackmailed, tribunal told.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lorna Reid THE alleged blackmail of one of Ireland's wealthiest families, and the possible involvement of a former Government minister in buying an English soccer club, were described at the dramatic reopening of the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday. Legal ...
Fat chance of Ryanair weighing their passengers.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom McEnaney Business Editor RYANAIR passengers at Dublin Airport may have approached the check-in desks a little gingerly yesterday as they watched fellow passengers being asked to step on a weighing scales. Yes, you read it correctly. Not content to weigh ...
Courts pay legal fees to victims of personal injuries.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dearbhail McDonald COURTS are awarding legal costs to personal injury victims who have tried and rejected the State's "lawyer-free" system. Claimants are obliged by law to lodge their claims through the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB), which does not ...
EU scam-busters predict trouble for 'clairvoyants'.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan and Bernard Purcell THE future looks bleak for 'clairvoyants'. The European Union is about to crack down on phoney psychics who prey on unsuspecting and naive consumers. An EU-wide enforcement network was established yesterday to ...
New ASBO monitors set up website watchdog.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dearbhail McDonald Legal Affairs Correspondent PLANS to clamp down on child yobs through anti-social behaviour orders will be monitored to ensure that there is no abuse of chil-dren's rights. Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) come into law for children and ...
Siobhan's family renews plea to track down her killer.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Bray ONE year after the brutal slaying of hotelier Siobhan Kearney, her family has renewed its plea for help in finding the young mother's killer. The grieving family has pleaded for any information which could finally bring closure to the case. ...
Operating surgeon not told of amputation patient's MRSA.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Shane Hickey A CONSULTANT surgeon carried out a toe amputation on an 'Evening Herald' journalist without knowing that he had MRSA, a condition which later killed him. Now Dublin city coroner Dr Brian Farrell is to write to the Health Services Executive (HSE) ...
Medicine prices fall after new deal.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent THE cost of a range of medicines should fall by up to 20pc from today as a new deal with the drugs industry comes into effect. The Irish Pharmaceutical Health Care Association, (IPHA) which represents the industry, estimated ...
United in grief for fallen heroes.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: NICOLA ANDERSON SEVEN lost children left without a dad. Two wives crushed by a grief of unimaginable proportions. The men they had loved had been so solid, so dependable. Twin rocks on which their communities had been built. Not every person would ...
Drivers 'must confront own role in road carnage'.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ralph Riegel MOTORISTS have to take personal responsibility for road safety, the funeral of a garda killed in the line of duty heard yesterday. Gda Brian Kelleher (46) was buried amid emotional scenes yesterday as almost 1,000 mourners heard an impassioned ...
Teens hospitalised after car mounts path.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: writes Brendan Farrelly A GROUP of schoolgirls waiting at a bus stop were among seven people rushed to hospital last night after an out-of-control car mounted a footpath, writes Brendan Farrelly. The accident happened on the Greenhills Road in Walkinstown, ...
Troubled Samantha heads south after gig flop in the capital city.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anne-Marie Walsh TROUBLED singer Samantha Mumba has secured a forum for her comeback material in Limerick after her Dublin gig was cancelled. The Drumcondra entertainer will not have to depend on her own ticket sales as her performance at the Trinity Rooms ...
Dail hopeful gets boost from Spring.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: writes Gene McKenna FORMER Tanaiste Dick Spring travelled to Dublin yesterday to show his support for the man he hopes will take back his old Kerry North seat for Labour, writes Gene McKenna. Mr Spring went with Cllr Terry O'Brien to the Dail as they met ...
Destiny is calling but doing just fine doesn't quite cut it.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: JOHN MEAGHER JUST two albums into their career, and it looks like the Killers are most likely to do a U2. The Las Vegas four-piece write epic, anthemic songs - fist pumping tunes made for stadia. Their latest big-selling album, Sam's Town, featured ...
Campaign splurge on way as poll cash limits to rise.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fionnan Sheahan Political Correspondent THE Government is planning to increase the amount of cash that can be spent on the general election in a move that will benefit the bigger political parties. There is already substantial evidence of heavy expenditure by ...
Elderly woman left on trolley for days.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent A 90-YEAR-old woman had to endure a three-day ordeal on a trolley in one of the country's worst-hit A&E departments . The woman, who did not want to be identified, was attached to an oxygen machine at the time. ...
Large turnout for removal of former Independent CEO.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fergus Black COLLEAGUES and friends turned out last night for the removal of Bartle Pitcher, one of the pivotal figures in the development of Independent Newspapers. Mr Pitcher (88), former chief executive officer of Independent Newspapers Ltd, died on ...
Reservists lined up for peace missions.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Brady in Ebl es Saqi RESERVE soldiers are being lined up to take part in overseas peace missions around the globe. The reservists will be deployed initially in specialist jobs and the focus will be on part-timers who are already trained as doctors, ...
Gregory in shock after McDowell pays him a vicious compliment.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: CIARAN BYRNE WHEN pitbull Justice Minister Michael McDowell gave an interview to a college magazine, he used the soft-focus opportunity to describe his life and personal interests. A fan of 'Lord of the Rings', he also hinted at a romantic side in choosing ...
When politics gets in your face.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: GENE McKENNA IF looks could kill, then Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny could have been in serious trouble when he met Mark Hayes (5) and Michael O'Sullivan (4) above. Mr Kenny was launching his party's New deal for Children yesterday. He said all children must have "timely ...
Eircom is 'giving its customers two fingers'.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Geraldine Collins Dail Correspondent EIRCOM has been giving "two fingers to its customers", and now a Government minister has asked officials to talk to the company about the quality of its service. Junior minister Frank Fahey told the Dail that Eircom ...
Now a Regressive Democrat, Michael has a great fall in the political Oscars.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fionnan Sheahan Political Correspondent TANAISTE Michael McDowell has gone from hero to zero in the annual political Oscars. Just two years after being crowned the first outright winner of the 'Magill Politician of the Year' award, the PD leader is the only ...
Snared badgers 'are put down humanely'.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Geraldine Collins THOUSANDS of badgers snared each night are put down humanely, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan has claimed. She was speaking yesterday after Independent TD Tony Gregory sought a review of the practice of snaring the animals amid allegations ...
Look at the long term.(COMMENT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... ANY Irish man or woman, accustomed to a relatively easygoing existence is bound to be a little dismayed to discover that events in China and the US, not to mention Brussels, are having sudden detrimental effects on the building blocks of their life, such as pension, SSIA and the size of ...
Assessing the claims.(COMMENT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... AS first reported in this newspaper last November, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) continues to be beset by difficulties. Described as a "fatally flawed project" by Rory Brady, now Attorney General, when it was first mooted six years ago, the PIAB appears to have ...
SIDE LINE.(COMMENT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: PAUL HOPKINS THEY reach puberty at around 13 or 14 years. They produce children until into their 40s- usually one or sometimes twins every three to four years - and live an average 70 years or more. Sound familiar? Read on. They love to fool around, have a good laugh, ...
Don't believe the hype, the kids are alright.(FEATURES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty It seems that Irish kids just can't catch a break these days. After all, we all know that the average Irish teenager is an obese, hoody-wearing thug who likes nothing better than playing violent video games, watching porn on the internet, engaging in ...