Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) back issues from August 2007:
Health warning.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: MARTIN BREHENY THE GAA has been warned that despite its apparent good health as huge crowds continue to flock to the big games, it is facing a major crisis unless it addresses the problems facing club players who are starved of competition for long stretches every year. ...
Oil tax hikes on way for energy giants.(FRONT PAGE)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fionnan Sheahan Political Correspondent THE State is to get hundreds of millions more from energy giants who strike oil and gas off our shores. The Government, stung by accusations of giving the likes of Shell cheap access to natural resources, has decided to ...
IDA make frantic bid to salvage 900 jobs.(FRONT PAGE)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora THE IDA was last night making a desperate 11th hour bid to save up to 900 jobs at a major multinational company. Industry sources said the jobs are on the line at document processing giant Xerox (Europe). Their work is due to be ...
Three of Dublin's colleges are facing shortfall of EU16m.(FRONT PAGE)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Walshe and Katherine Donnelly THE three Dublin universities - Trinity, UCD and DCU - face funding shortfalls of about EU16m in the next few years, given their current spending levels. The reduced allocation has particularly alarmed Trinity, which is ...
One day of sunshine - but the heat is on at home and abroad.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Grainne Cunningham DON'T be fooled by yesterday's soaring temperatures and beautiful sunshine - summer 2007 is looking as elusive as ever. Make the most of every gap in the clouds and every bright spell between the raindrops because the forecast is more about ...
Wildfires spark 'maximum' alert on tourist islands.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eugene Moloney WILDFIRES continued to sweep across Spain's Canary Islands yesterday, where up to 15,000 Irish people are on holiday. The fires have been raging on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife since last Friday and a state of "maximum alert" has ...
Downpours up to record levels for last month.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: EDEL KENNEDY SOME parts of the country experienced a 300pc increase in rainfall last month. Met Eireann has confirmed 151.6mm were recorded at Baldonnel in July, significantly up from the previous record high of 110.7mm in 1958. It is also 304pc higher than ...
Green Party softens its opposition to Fianna Fail's fundraising tent at races.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Fionnan Sheahan Political Correspondent THE Green Party's stance on the Fianna Fail fundraising tent at the Galway Races softened substantially yesterday. The party now says it "welcomes" a possible review of their government partner's controversial presence ...
Shy Dub buys fastest, dearest car of all time for EU1.5m.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: EUGENE MOLONEY A RETIRED Dublin businessman with a penchant for fast cars has bought the world's most expensive and powerful production sports car of all time - at a cost of more than EU1.5m. The charcoal grey and black finished Bugatti Veyron, one of just ...
Record Lotto winner biding his time.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Shane Hickey and Ann Marie Walsh AND the wait goes on. Three days after the Lotto victory that changed his life, Corkman Paul Cunningham left it for another day to claim his EU16m fortune. Having quit his job as a bar manager in Blackpool, the ...
Parnell, FitzGerald and Emmet swept from corridors of power.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Senan Molony Political Correspondent THE DAIL is going on the dry for the month of August. - all the more reason for the politicians to decamp en-masse to Ballybrit and the tents at the Galway races. Both the Dail members' bar and visitors' bar closed ...
E-voting would have added 400,000 ballots to election poll.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Senan Molony Political Correspondent BERTIE Ahern, who has long and loudly pressed the case for the modernisation of voting and an end to "oul' peann luaidhes" (pencils) in polling stations, has some vindication for his stance from a new opinion poll. The ...
Lab staff get EU1.5m after inhaling noxious gas.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ann O'Loughlin and Dara deFaoite TWO lab technicians have been awarded EU1.5m for injuries they received after inhaling a ''cocktail of chemicals'' from noxious fumes. The two women - who now suffer from stress and various illnesses following the exposure at ...
How a condom almost brought the curtain down on first festival.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Edel Kennedy IT'S the oldest English-speaking theatre festival in the world. But 50 years ago at its inaugural year, the Dublin Theatre Festival almost fell at the first hurdle when a theatre director was thrown in jail for "having produced for gain an ...
Jail threat lifted after barrister quits premises at centre of row.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ann O'Loughlin THE threat of jail was lifted from a barrister yesterday after it was confirmed to the High Court that he had quit a Dublin city centre premises at the centre of a two-year contractual dispute. Mr Justice Peter Kelly had warned Patrick Russell ...
CONTINUATION: Capital's colleges are facing shortfall of EU16m.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... facilities we estimate will cost in the region of EU1.7b," he told the MacGill summer school in Co Donegal. The Higher Education Authority (HEA) recently advised the universities of their allocations for the coming academic year and has made it clear that the shortfalls will be ...
Complaints flooding in over EU2,500 water filter sales scam.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Edel Kennedy DEVIOUS scammers are duping hundreds of householders into buying unnecessary water filters costing up to EU2,500. The National Consumer Agency (NCA) has received a host of complaints about agents who call to homes and offer to test the tap water ....
Parents in landmark case over 'lunatic' label for son.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Dearbhail McDonald Legal Affairs Correspondent THE parents of a 25-year-old man who has cerebral palsy and who do not want their son branded a "lunatic" have begun a landmark test case to prevent him being made a ward of court. Under Ireland's current ...
Minister backs 'wipe slate clean' plan.(NEWS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Brady Security Editor JUSTICE Minister Brian Lenihan has backed proposals to eliminate minor criminal convictions from Garda records after seven years. The recommendations were contained in a report from the Law Reform Commission, which suggested anybody ...
Inside the tent.(COMMENT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... The tent, any tent, when filled with like-minded warriors, dedicated to a common cause, presents a powerful symbol. US President Lyndon Baines Johnson captured the essential mutual trust and inter dependence when he defined the tent dwellers' vulnerability to the attentions of outsiders in ...
The price of knowledge.(COMMENT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... It is difficult to understand how, in the light of national aspirations towards a "Knowledge Economy" which will ensure the continued prosperity of the country, the application of funding to achieve this end can appear so haphazard and ill thought out. This week, the Minister for Education ...
Posturing pieties prevent rational debate on Islam's clash with secular society.(COMMENT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: KEVIN MYERS The letter from Cian Cafferky last week on the subject of Muslim immigration illustrates perfectly why so few people are prepared to discuss the issue in public. Precisely the same kind of sentiments as his, accompanied by the same kind of posturing piety, ...
Vinyl revival hits the right groove.(FEATURES)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Meagher The format was supposed to have been badly wounded by the introduction of CDs and killed off completely by the iPod-generation that preferred to purchase their music online. But in a rare case of cheerful news for the record labels, the latest ...
Row goes on as Walsh retires from Bord Gais.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora BORD Gais chief executive Gerry Walsh retired yesterday without resolving an ongoing dispute with the Department of Energy over his terms of employment. It is understood that an official from the Department of Energy and representatives of the ...
Norkom raises EU15m in placing of 8.4m shares.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora SOFTWARE firm Norkom has raised about EU15.5m through a share placing -- over EU5m more than had previously been expected. The placing, which was arranged by Goodbody Stockbrokers, involved 8.14m shares at EU1.90 per unit. Earlier ...
Share buyback is suspended.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: AILISH O'HORA C&C has cancelled its share buyback programme following the collapse of its shares after the company issued its second profit warning in less than three weeks. Maurice Pratt, chief executive of the company, confirmed yesterday that the scheme ...
C&C falls 27pc as over EU740m is wiped off cider firm's value.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora OVERY EU740m was wiped off the value of Bulmers/Magners producer C& C yesterday when the company issued its second profit warning in less than three weeks. At one stage, the shares were down 27pc within a 10-minute period as they recorded their ...
Dublin bounces back but fears of volatility hover over housing.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Aughney THE Dublin stock market yesterday recovered almost half the losses of the previous week. But traders warned of continued volatility today when AIB half-year figures will be examined for signs of weakness in the Irish housing market. ...
Markets.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: JIM AUGHNEY THE Dublin market staged a major recovery yesterday to close 3.7pc up at 8,563, after coming close to 8,700 on a number of occasions between noon and 2pm. Financial stocks led the recovery with an average gain of over 4.5pc, while the ...
Quigley's desire to put Danish in the doldrums.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Aidan Fitzmaurice in Odense ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC striker Mark Quigley is determined to end his five-game goal drought and fire the Saints into the next round of the UEFA Cup. Former Millwall man Quigley, who made his European debut for Pat's in their ...
Ballina faced with financial ruin.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cliona Foley ONE of the country's most famous basketball clubs, Team Merry Monk of Ballina, says it is being threatened with financial ruin after being forced to join the Southern Conference of the Irish Superleague. Mayo footballers Liam McHale and Ronan ...
Teens give real hope for future.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paddy Hickey FOUR promising teenagers have struck a major blow for the prestige of Irish underage tennis by advancing to the semi-finals of the European U16 Team Championships. The Irish team of Greystones duo Ciaran Fitzgerald and Amy Bowtell, Antrim's ...
EU100,000 to play with Harrington.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Liam Kelly THREE top Irish businessmen have combined to pay a whopping EU100,000 to charity for a game of golf with Open champion Padraig Harrington. Michael Smurfit Junior, property and investment mogul Pat McKillen and Livestock exporter Gerry Purcell, ...
Captain blessed amongst women in Executive Trophy qualifying.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: LIAM KELLY GIRL power came to the fore last Thursday in the Allianz/ Irish Independent Executive Trophy Regional Qualifier at magnificent Mount Juliet. A stirring performance by the Mount Wolseley team, consisting of lady captain Susan Carey, lady president ...
No McIlroy but plenty on show in Mullingar.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Liam Kelly IRISH golf is blessed with a growing abundance of young talent and the Mullingar Grant Thornton Scratch Trophy next weekend is a showpiece for the stars of the future. The field is packed with championship winners and internationals and the event ...
'Harrington effect' inspires Moriarty for Glasson challenge.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Liam Kelly EVERYBODY loves a winner and the normally fickle golfing gods have blessed Glasson Golf Hotel and Country Club with their own home-grown winner in Colm Moriarty. Tom and Breda Reid, the owners of Glasson, must be living on the side of the angels ...
Unexposed Knight Legend can deny top weight Ansar.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: DAMIEN McELROY THE prayers of the majority of owners and trainers for fine weather and decent ground as they entertain hopes of landing the William Hill Plate have been belatedly answered in Galway this week. Fears that the going would prove a spoilsport for ...
Incline too steep for rivals.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: Damien McElroy FAVOURITES continued to be right out of luck in the traditional Tuesday highlight at the Festival last evening when the outsiders Incline and Crooked Throw fought out a hectic finish. The first big-race winner in living memory trained in ...
Strife of Brian highlights need for two referees in hurling.(SPORT)
Aug 01, 2007 ... Byline: MARTIN BREHENY SO what happens to Brian Gavin's prospects of refereeing the hurling final if Cork beat Waterford in next Sunday's replay? Will Cork despatch their carrier pigeons to Mayo, Wicklow and Tyrone with notes for Referee Appointment Committee members, ...
NEW HOMES SLUMP.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: JIM AUGHNEY IT'S been one of the quietest summers in living memory for those building new houses around the country - an activity which usually reaches its peak in the bright, hot months of June, July and August. Most home-builders have scaled back sharply on ...
DOLLAR'S DOWNFALL.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: BRENDAN KEENAN THE only thing falling as fast as the barometer this summer has been the dollar. The US currency, which has been on the slide since stock markets crashed in 2001, took another tumble against the euro since March, losing 6pc of its value and ...
SIXTY-DAY DELUGE.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: AILISH O'HORA IT didn't rain, it poured. And the sixty-day deluge over the past couple of months took its toll on many Irish businesses. One of the biggest sufferers was Bulmers/Magners producer C&C. Two profit warnings within three weeks of each other showed ...
RESOURCEFUL IRISH.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: PAT BOYLE THE breaking of the price-link between oil and gas came to pass this year but may prove to be a temporary feature of the international energy markets. Gas prices fell sharply this year, despite the continued rise in oil prices and Irish consumers ...
Exploration firms decry higher tax bid.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle OFFSHORE exploration companies warned yesterday that activity in the Irish offshore could decline in the wake of news that the favourable licence terms are to be scrapped in favour of a higher tax regime on offshore discoveries. The move to stiffen ...
Building slowdown projections will keep the analysts busy.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: BRENDAN KEENAN THE problem with the problem is that it is not, strictly speaking, a problem. The questionable problem in question is the decline in house-building. The reason for the little word play is that this is not the usual kind of economic difficulty ....
Trinity Mirror completes PS190m sale of Racing Post.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora PUBLISHER Trinity Mirror is expected to announce the completion of the sale of its Racing Post title for an estimated PS190m to Peter Crowley-led FL Partners later today. It is understood that FL beat at least two rival bidders for the Trinity ...
Babcock buys the Israeli Golden Pages.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: AILISH O'HORA BABCOCK & Brown Capital, the company that is planning to sell off Eircom's retail arm, has acquired the Israeli Golden Pages for EU155m. The directories business is being bought from Markstone Capital Partners and other Israeli-based ...
Watchdog may act on Eircom line faults.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora EIRCOM may have to meet performance targets in relation to telephone services as a result of new findings from telecoms watchdog ComReg which revealed a significant increase in faults on Eircom lines in 2006. In the residential sector, there ...
Major EU620m offshore wind farm is planned off Dundalk.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Pat Boyle A MAJOR EU620m offshore wind farm is being planned for a site in the North Irish Sea and could be up and running by 2013. Revealing details of the venture yesterday, Oriel Windfarm managing director Briasn Britton said the wind farm will have ...
US regulators pass Tysabri for Crohn's.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ailish O'Hora US regulators have ruled that Elan's multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri should be approved for treating the bowel disorder Crohn's disease, a US advisory panel has ruled. Shares in Elan finished the day up 2.8pc at EU13.59. They gained 8pc on ...
Growth back on track on political stability.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan THE formation of a new government and the end of political uncertainty helped spur growth in manufacturing over the past two months, according to the NCB Stockbrokers' survey of purchasing managers. The pace of growth eased slightly last month, ...
BoS (I) sees its interims jump 14pc to EU118m.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Aughney THE roll-out of Halifax branches and strong growth in business lending have resulted in a 14pc rise in first-half pre-tax profits to EU118m at Bank of Scotland (Ireland) -- the HBOS subsidiary in Ireland. Loans to customers grew by 23pc to ...
Canary Wharf investors to receive EU30m repayment.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Aughney IRISH investors in a Canary Wharf development are to receive a EU30m repayment from Evans Randall, a UK-based investment banking and private equity group, as a result of a Credit Suisse property refinancing package. Evans Randall will deliver the ...
Did Supreme Court ignore the burst dot.com bubble?(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: PAT BOYLE IN the end it came down to a precedent versus Irish Law. The use by the High Court of the reasonable investor test and its decision to exclude the profit warning as evidence were overturned and with it the fate of DCC and Jim Flavin sealed. Fyffes won their ...
Markets.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: JIM AUGHNEY VOLATILITY continued in stock markets yesterday as the Dublin ISEQ closed 81 points, or 0.95pc, down after a 4pc recovery on Tuesday. The market fell on the back of uncertain global markets and US stock weakness. All eyes in Dublin were ...
THAT DIFFICULT FIRST YEAR . . .(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: SHANE HICKEY THE extent to which Irish people have ambitions to own and run their own business is startling. The 2005 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report shows that 9.8pc pf the adult population is actively planning or has recently established a ...
Fast expansion highlights difficulty sourcing staff.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Shane Hickey LIKE many other companies in the technology sector at present, Dublin-based IT company Nostra Systems has found getting the right staff to be a challenge. Having been formed in January of this year, Nostra provides IT products and services to the ...
Paris property may be up your street.(BUSINESS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: JIM AUGHNEY INVESTORS looking for something out of the ordinary requiring a sizeable commitment may want to consider a specific investment in Parisian commercial property being made available from Bank of Ireland with a EU50,000 minimum sum. A commercial ...
Gardai are rapped for failing to say sorry.(FRONT PAGE)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Brady Security Editor THE GARDA watchdog yesterday unleashed a stinging attack on the force's attitude to wrongdoing within its ranks -and on its inability to say sorry. The chairman of Garda Complaints Board, Gordon Holmes, highlighted major areas of ...
Family fortunes . . . changed forever by EU16m Lottery win.(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Melia "UP the Rebels." It took them three days to collect their winnings, but this was the only message Ireland's newest Lotto millionaires had for the media yesterday. Four days after scooping a cool EU16m in the biggest ever Lotto jackpot, ...
Now that's a real picture of wealth . . .(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ralph Riegel PAUL and Helen Cunningham have been flooded with begging letters and pleas for money. The extended Cunningham family has been stunned by the deluge of financial requests, which have ranged from offers of financial advice, personal pleas for cash, ...
Pay farce being played out in private.(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: BRENDAN KEENAN WE can be reasonably sure that the OECD experts in Paris studying the Irish public service will not receive many submissions like that from the small business group ISME. Not unless there is one from Ryanair. The budget airline is probably the ...
'Poor' public service blasted for perks and wage hikes.(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Brendan Keenan and Fionnan Sheahan IRELAND'S public sector pay bill has ballooned by almost 90pc in seven years, new figures reveal. But despite soaring wages and the hiring of 100,000 extra workers, international experts studying our public service have been ...
Murder hunt after Irish teen beaten to death in Lanzarote.(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Allison Bray SPANISH police are hunting the killers of an 18-year-old Irish youth who was beaten to death following an apparent street brawl on the island of Lanzarote early yesterday. The savage attack on the young man took place in the popular tourist ...
Rise in European arrest warrants.(NEWS)
Aug 02, 2007 ... Byline: Tom Brady A TOTAL of 127 European arrest warrants were received by the office of the Minister for Justice last year, writes Security Editor Tom Brady. According to the latest figures, among those sought were 29 Irish nationals, 34 UK nationals, 19 Lithuanians, ...