Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) back issues from June 2007:
New disciplinary system brings new loopholes as Clare official lashes the 'Semplegate' wait.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: CLIONA FOLEY AMID mounting speculation that the 'Semplegate Eight' will get to make their plea for leniency in Croke Park next Tuesday, a top Clare official has lashed the authorities for not letting them make their case earlier. His comments, in fact, ...
New twist to Belfast ODI saga.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: EMMET RIORDAN CRICKET: The on-off saga concerning this month's One Day International Series between India and South Africa in Belfast took another turn yesterday with the announcement that Indian network Nimbus has secured the rights to the series, WRITES EMMET RIORDAN. ...
17,400 jobs in IT are still unfilled.(FRONT PAGE)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Walshe Education Editor A SERIOUS scarcity of IT workers has been confirmed by a new study. The number of job vacancies in computer and information technology has doubled in just two years to a record 17,400, the new survey reveals. The study ...
Transsexual wins exam cert battle.(FRONT PAGE)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fergus Black A TRANSSEXUAL who sat her state exams as a male has won the right to have her certificates reissued in her new name and gender. In case described as a "real breakthrough" by the Equality Authority, the State Examination Commission has agreed to ...
Saying 'no' to drinking behind wheel is top turn-on.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Treacy Hogan Environment Correspondent NINE out 10 women find men who drink and drive "a big turn-off", a new official survey reveals. Most found men who have the courage to say no to drink driving "very attractive"; and "wouldn't be seen dead" with those who ...
Transsexual wins plea to alter gender on exam certs.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fergus Black A TRANSSEXUAL who sat her state exams as a male has won the right to have her exam certificates reissued to reflect her new name and gender. In a groundbreaking case described as a "real breakthrough" by the Equality Authority, the State ...
O'Dea among ministers engaged in massive war game.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Brady Security Editor DEFENCE ministers representing countries involved in the Nordic battlegroup, including Ireland's Willie O'Dea, took part in a simulated exercise in Stockholm yesterday. A series of workshops was set up to familiarise ministers with ...
Irish gardening becomes truly scent-sational.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan IRELAND'S answer to the Chelsea Flower Show opens to the public today in a bid to highlight the creative extremes of the EU1bn garden industry. Around 50,000 garden enthusiasts are expected to flock to Bloom 2007 in the Phoenix Park Visitor's ...
Couples who 'live in sin' becoming the family norm.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Shane Hickey THE number of cohabiting couples has rocketed by almost 57pc, making it the fastest growing family unit. New census figures show that the number of people living alone and as unmarried couples has soared while the conventional family unit has ...
Young smokers more likely to be obese, study finds.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lorna Reid IF you are a young smoker then the chances are you are fat as well. Startling new research from Dublin City University (DCU) shows that one in five young smokers are overweight or obese. Studying 4,720 pupils in public and private post ...
Stabbed teen GAA player to be buried.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Bray THE teenager stabbed to death on Waterloo Road in the early hours of last Saturday morning is to be buried tomorrow. Sean Nolan (18), from Griffith Court, Fairview, on Dublin's northside, was with friends on the south-side of the city at the time ...
Toddler killed when car hit tractor trailer.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Breda Heffernan A FAMILY drive ended in tragedy when a car collided with a tractor trailer, killing a two-year-old boy, an inquest has heard. While little Keith Farren was killed in the accident, his 10-month-old brother Mark, who was strapped into the ...
Teen died of drug overdose, not diabetes, parents told.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Breda Heffernan A 16-YEAR-OLD who was placed in a detention centre by his parents to keep him away from drugs died after taking methadone while on temporary release, an inquest has heard. To compound his parents' suffering, teenager Craig David died less than ...
IT staff shortage leaves 17,400 jobs to be filled.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Walshe Education Editor THE number of job vacancies in computer and information technology (IT) has doubled in just two years to a record 17,400, a new survey has revealed. The survey is the latest in a series carried out by Dublin City University, whose ...
Damning report says hospital putting patients' lives at risk.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Bray LIVES could be lost unless the proper infrastructure is put in place immediately at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, leading doctors said last night. Their warning came after the leak of a damning report on the Co Meath hospital. The ...
Dublin's a chart topper for . . . chart toppers.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Bray DUBLIN ranks number one in Ireland and the UK when it comes to making chart-topping music, a new poll reveals. Thanks to such Irish musical luminaries as U2, Sinead O'Connor, Bob Geldolf and (part of) Westlife, the Irish capital has consistently ...
Comedians give city a laugh with EU8m punch-line.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eugene Moloney THE Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny got under way last night with the organisers expecting more than 30,000 people to attend during the bank holiday weekend. Additional gardai were on duty to deal with the large crowds and motorists were ...
Greens gag members over FF Ban on public expression as parties enter talks.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fionnan Sheahan Political Correspondent THE Green Party has gagged its TDs, councillors and candidates from giving their views about going into government into Fianna Fail. The party is now in contact with FF about a potential coalition deal. The Greens ...
Roche vows to continue stand against Sellafield.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eugene Moloney A FIANNA Fail-led Government will continue its battle to secure the closure of Sellafield, Environment minister Dick Roche said yesterday. Mr Roche's pledge came as he prepared to fly out last night for an informal meeting of EU environment ...
Labour set to copy FG strategy with local election battle plan.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Gene McKenna Political Editor LABOUR intends to shake up its candidate selection policy in preparation for the next local elections in two years' time. It will take a leaf out of Fine Gael's book in bringing forward new candidates who, it hopes, will go on to ...
Bertie's long-term ambition for the whole island.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: JAMES DOWNEY ALL this last week, otherwise sane people have been going around asking one another who is going to form the next government. Let me give them a hint. Fianna Fail has 78 seats in the incoming Dail. Bertie Ahern, if he wishes, can effectively ...
Probe delay as Mahon's key witness in poor health.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lorna Reid THE Mahon Tribunal was dramatically adjourned yesterday after its key witness took ill. Tom Gilmartin, who made a sensational allegation on his first day in the box on Tuesday about being asked for PS500,000 from a close friend of the Taoiseach, ...
We're committed to EU, Ahern tells Merkel.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Gene McKenna Political Editor IRELAND remains "strongly committed" to the substance of the EU Constitution, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said last night. He made the remark in a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on his first trip abroad since ...
Gardai in new appeal for help to solve 'hit'.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: TOM BRADY GARDAI are to make a fresh appeal for vital information which could help them catch the organiser of a "hit" which claimed the wrong victim. Keith Fitzsimons (23) was shot in the heart after he stopped to talk to two men outside a house in Coolock ...
Farmers at risk of poverty, warns institute.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aideen Sheehan IRELAND does not have a real underclass, but some groups - such as farmers - face a real risk of deprivation, a new study has shown. Farmers, people without any educational qualification and local authority tenants were most at risk from poverty ...
Left behind by the Tiger.(COMMENT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... THE tortuous socio-speak in which two major reports today are couched cannot disguise an alarming level of human unhappiness in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. "For maximal deprivation, labour market inactivity and illness or disability are powerful predictors," says the Economic and ...
Report the road boors.(COMMENT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... ALMOST 140 lives were lost on our roads in the first five months of the year and experience tells us that the toll could rise over this sunny bank holiday weekend. Last year seven people were killed. The Garda promise they will be out in force and urge people to slow ...
How secularists, not immigrants, target Church-run schools.(COMMENT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: DAVID QUINN MULTI-CULTURAL, multi-faith Ireland must have multi-faith, multi-cultural schools. But how many, and who wants them? The question of our schools has reared its head again this week because of difficulties in Dublin West. The population there is ...
How US aided greatest threat to freedom world has ever known - by a vast army of Soviet spies.(COMMENT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: KEVIN MYERS I WAS lamenting the other day about the Irish predilection for historical mythology - but of course, the embrace of simple but agreeable untruths is a characteristic common to all communities. Ask any DCU or Griffith College journalism graduate ...
Finally, the true face of the United Nations.(FEATURES)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty Let's be honest -- the United Nations must be the most morally bankrupt, pernicious and counter-productive organisation this world has seen since the League Of Nations stood by and watched as the Japanese flounced out of their last meeting. In ...
We're going to need a bigger boat.(FEATURES)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty There are few more enjoyable ways of wasting a few hours -- or days, if the conditions are right -- than fishing. Sure, some of the more effete, fey dilettantes prefer fly fishing. But for those who have a bit of Hemingway in their ...
THE PERFECT BIG BROTHER SHOW.(FEATURES)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty There has been a lot of hysterical over-reaction to the new 'Big Brother'. And not just from this column. But apart from the disgraceful decision by Channel 4 to accede to Ofcom's demand that they apologise for "not protecting viewers from ...
Read this. And get a headache.(FEATURES)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty As any hack will tell you, we're constantly bombarded with incomprehensible press releases. And none are more garbled than those which come from Government initiatives. Take this one, which arrived yesterday: "A nationwide public ...
You want a ban on what now?(FEATURES)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ian O'Doherty Roger Moore wants to ban foie gras, saying: "I wholeheartedly support this (PETA's) campaign, and with your help I believe that we will soon see an end to this brutal and inherently cruel 'delicacy'." Of course, in the grown-up world, we could ...
Demand for private sector credit slows to a new low.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor THE growth in demand for private sector credit continued on a downward trend last month, when it recorded the slowest growth rate for three years. Figures published by the Central Bank showed that the adjusted annual ...
Major oil terminal to be built in Foynes Port.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom McEnaney A CONSORTIUM of Irish businesmen is planning what would be the first large oil terminal to be built in Ireland in 40 years. The three men, Chris O'Callaghan, Desmond Hurley and John Sweeney, each has extensive interests in the Irish oil sector at ...
Greencore interims surge 38pc and shares climb to a new high.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle GREENCORE posted an impressive set of interim results yesterday with a 38pc increase in pre-tax profits to EU35.4m for the six months to the end of March. The result was well ahead of analysts' forecasts and sent the shares surging by over 2pc to ...
Staff eye 2.2m stock jackpot worth EU36m.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: CYRIL HARDIMAN BANK staff have a 2.22m stock issue jackpot worth EU36m to look forward to following yesterday's profit boost. This equates to 6pc of salaries and was conceded when staff signed up to the group's Transformation Programme which delivered cost ...
Bank of Ireland delivers bang in line on forecasts.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cyril Hardiman The stock market is getting harder and harder to please. Bank of Ireland yesterday reported record underlying profits of EU1.7bn, bang on line with the guidance it gave the market two months ago. But the share price still slumped 3pc ...
US growth is at its weakest in more than four years.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan US ECONOMIC growth in the opening quarter this year was the weakest in more than four years as businesses sold off inventories and Americans imported more foreign goods, new figures showed. Markets were more interested in a report on current ...
ESB sell Ballyragget Power to Dalkia.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle DALKIA Ireland, a subsidiary of Veolia Environment and Electricite de France, yesterday announced its purchase of Ballyragget Power, a specialist unit of the ESB, for an undisclosed sum. Ballyragget Power operates five Combined Heat and Power (CHP) ...
FBD get go-ahead for capital distribution.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle INSURANCE group FBD, which began initially with a farmer business base, yesterday received approval for resolutions to allow flexibility on the method of distribution of excess capital to shareholders. In April, FBD announced that it would return ...
Markets.(BUSINESS)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: CYRIL HARDIMAN INVESTOR disappointment that Bank of Ireland did not go that little bit extra when reporting its results yesterday held the Dublin market back. The results were excellent but the 22pc underlying earnings growth was no better, while guidance for ...
Decies quartet bring forward magic memories.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cliona Foley WATERFORD'S fairytale home clash with All-Ireland champions Kerry on Sunday will not faze at least four of the Decies team -- namely Eddie Rockett, John Hurney, Liam O'Lonnain and Eamon Walsh are involved this weekend. This quartet were part of ...
Dublin and Meath break EU10m barrier.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: MARTIN BREHENY THE most lucrative rivalry in Irish sport will have yielded over EU10m by the close of business at Croke Park on Sunday. And the 1.2m attendance barrier will be broken when Dublin and Meath continue 25 seasons of remarkable riches -- on and off ...
Brogan the man to fear says Royal selector.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Hickey MEATH legend Tommy Dowd feels that his side's victory prospects at Croke Park on Sunday could hinge on how they curb Dubs' dangerman Alan Brogan. "I've great time for Alan Brogan -- he's a fantastic footballer," remarked the Meath selector in ...
Tipp prepare to unleash 'new Declan Browne' against Cork.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: PADDY HICKEY HE'S loath to say it, but Tipperary boss John Owens will be pinning big hopes on a player being dubbed the new 'Declan Browne' for Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final against Cork. Barry Grogan will be making his championship debut in the Gaelic ...
Antrim's rookie manager insists his side can defy underdogs tag.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Hickey YOU can get odds of 5/1 for Antrim to beat Derry, but Saffrons' boss Jody Gormley is not without hope that his troops can cause a huge upset in Sunday's Ulster SFC clash. "Derry deserve to be favourites, but the fact that we have nothing to lose ...
O'Sullivan has EU1m mark in sight.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Karl MacGinty DENIS O'SULLIVAN will join European senior golf's exclusive millionaire's club this season. Indeed, if the genial Cork giant scoops the EU67,500 first prize in this weekend's AIB Irish Seniors Open, he'll become only the fifth player in the ...
Carroll's 5,000m mark under threat from Cragg.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cliona Foley FRESH from two recent personal bests at opposite ends of the distance scale, Alistair Cragg is out to break Mark Carroll's Irish 5000m record in New York tomorrow. Cragg has bounced back well after his European Indoor disappointment by breaking ...
O'Donovan primes pack for Argentina backlash.(SPORT)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: DAVID KELLY in Buenos Aires WITH another dour, torpid encounter being predicted for tomorrow's test here from all angles, the lament of Manuel Contepomi for his talented brother, Felipe, seems all the more appropriate. "We'll miss him," sighed the ...
Ford pull out the stops with new Mondeo.(MOTORING)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eddie Cunningham NO matter what they tell you about a car, or how much you look at photos of it, there is nothing to beat three hours or so behind the wheel on Irish roads. All the better if those roads happen to stretch into and across Offaly. As if to ...
EU170m Rathfarnham housing scheme gets go-ahead.(PROPERTY)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Donal Buckley MICHAEL Whelan's Maplewood Developments has got the green light for a EU170m new housing development in Ballyboden, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, despite a recommendation from the board's inspector that the project be refused. The mix of homes will include 110 ...
Green light for EU100m Malahide Road plan.(PROPERTY)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Donal Buckley THE Fitzpatrick brothers, Patrick and Tony, have got the green light for a EU100m mixed development, including 198 new homes, for the site of the Shell filling station next to Clarehall Shopping Centre on the Malahide Road, Dublin 17. Scions of ...
Dublin homebuyers face 'affordability squeeze'.(PROPERTY)
Jun 01, 2007 ... Byline: Donal Buckley HOME buyers in Dublin are facing an affordability squeeze at a time when pressure is easing substantially in the commuter counties of Kildare, Meath and Louth. According to the latest Permanent TSB house price survey, house prices in the ...
Human faces behind the legal jousting.(REVIEW)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: KIM BIELENBERG In the long-running and frequently tedious saga of modern Irish tribunals, there has seldom been a more dramatic moment. Just hours after the apparent election victory, Bertie Ahern's reputation was again being shredded by counsel for the Mahon ...
Treasure Ireland.(REVIEW)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: GEMMA O'DOHERTY REPORTS This week, two of Dublin's legendary shops closed their doors for the last time: Greene's Bookstore on Clare St and Frawleys clothes shop in the heart of the Liberties. Around the country, indigenous family-run retailers are being ...
Child of the Hill.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: VINCENT HOGAN ALL that is left of the era is an echo now but, for an 80s child of the Hill, the real, smoky, epochal Championship business tended to begin and end with Meath. David Henry sat with his father, Gene, at all four games in 1991. The heat of those ...
CAN LIGHTNING AGAIN?STRIKE.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: MARTIN BREHENY THE voices behind Waterford goalkeeper Gerry McCarthy were screaming advice as he prepared to take the kick-out. "For God's sake, take your time. We have them, we have them." McCarthy didn't know why the crowd were so excited or why ...
GAELIC GAMES PRIVIEWS.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: Martin Breheny Luke Dempsey has opted for a risky strategy by suggesting that Laois are adopting a more physical approach this year and that he hoped the referee and his officials would "offer the skilful players from Longford proper protection". Apart from creating a ...
'If you beat Dublin there was a sense of pure relief that you hadn't lost, not elation that you had won'.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: COLM KEYS ROBBIE O'MALLEY looks ahead to Leinster football's version of 'El Gran Classico' in Croke Park tomorrow and wonders if the same sense of fear that used to grip him is haunting the current crop of Meath and Dublin players. From 1984 to 1995 O'Malley, ...
Discipline holds the key to victory.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: DAVID KELLY in Buenos Aires IF video analysis is so important to the outcome of modern international rugby tests, then the Argentineans are likely to be unbackable favourites in the Velez Sarsfield Stadium today. For the locals have perused last week's match ...
Ireland's treatment of Bracken stinks to the high heavens.(SPORT)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: TONY WARD THERE was a time when Irish rugby trials were played in downtown Dublin 4 . . . now it is to much more exotic climes we go. This afternoon in Buenos Aires (8.10pm Irish time) it is make or break for another eleven of those on the fringe to convince ...
A&E crisis laid bare in new study.(FRONT PAGE)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: Breda Heffernan AT least seven A& E departments are unfit for their purpose, a major health service study revealed yesterday. The Mater and Beaumont hospitals in Dublin, the Mercy Hospital in Cork, Wexford General Hospital, Cavan General Hospital, Our Lady of ...
So what has the Mahon Tribunal done for us?(NEWS)
Jun 02, 2007 ... Byline: DEARBHAIL McDONALD YOU may not know it, but if you have a tendency to hit the snooze button whenever you hear the phrase Mahon Tribunal, you have conceded a major victory to the powerful vested interests intent on shutting it down. For 10 years it has been ...