The Irish Times back issues from June 2009:
Carey says State must take control of church-run schools
Jun 01, 2009; ... The State must take over management of schools and stop "coppingout" of its responsibilities in education, Government chief whip PatCarey has said in the context of the continuing fallout from theRyan report. Speaking to The Irish Timeslast night, Mr Carey said there wasnow "an ...
Maritime fans flow into Galway celebration ; Dockside village hosts unprecedented crowds
Jun 01, 2009; ... UNLESS THEY were walking on water, canvassing politicians werewasting their time in Galway at the weekend. Forget the motorcades -a berth on a hooker, yacht or rib was the only way to net a few"floating votes". Round-the-world yacht crews, Red Arrow aerial acrobatics andnational ...
Kenny insists FG will not 'do business' with Sinn Fein
Jun 01, 2009; ... FINE GAEL yesterday distanced itself from comments made by itsnational director of elections that the party would work with SinnFein in the future. Party leader Enda Kenny said that Frank Flannery had expressed apersonal opinion when saying that Fine Gael's doctrinaire ...
Three killed at weekend bringing May road deaths to 31 ; Highest monthly fatalities since February 2008
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE NUMBER of road users losing their lives has reached itshighest monthly total for more than a year. Three motorists werekilled in the first two days of the bank holiday weekend. Fatal collisions in Kildare, Mayo and Limerick have pushed thetotal for May to 31, the highest ...
Fourth case of swine flu found in man recently in New York
Jun 01, 2009; ... A FOURTH case of swine flu has been confirmed in the Republic,according to the Department of Health. Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said yesterday the latestperson to test positive for the virus was a man from the south whohad recently returned from New York. Dr ...
Criticism of boat users failing to wear life jackets
Jun 01, 2009 ... AS THE Volvo Ocean Race Galway stopover attracts recordattendances, Irish Water Safety has issued a reminder about takingrisks on water. Irish Water Safety (IWS) chief executive Lieut-Cdr John Leech hasissued an appeal for vigilance, and says he is "disappointed" thatsome people ...
Man held on killing of woman in Spain
Jun 01, 2009; ... POLICE IN Spain investigating the murder of an Irish woman havearrested the chief suspect. The British man was being detained last night after he wasarrested for questioning about the murder of Dubliner Avril Flanagan(20). She was stabbed repeatedly in the neck. Her body was ...
RTE management says pay cuts will be reviewed
Jun 01, 2009; ... MANAGEMENT at RTE has told staff that planned pay cuts will bereviewed by the end of 2010 as they attempt to reach agreement onsavings totalling [euro]68 million this year. The State-owned broadcasting company also said no managementbonuses would be paid for either 2008 or ...
Sunshine likely for holiday weekend of marathons, music and festivals
Jun 01, 2009; ... TEMPERATURES reached 26 degrees yesterday and are expected tosoar again today, as the country basks in sunshine for the bankholiday. In Dublin more than 40,000 women are expected to take part in theWomen's mini-marathon with thousands of people likely to line thestreets on the ...
Last 'Titanic' survivor dies at the age of 97
Jun 01, 2009; ... MILLVINA DEAN, the last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,died yesterday at the age of 97. Ms Dean, a nine-week-old baby at the time of the disaster, wasthe youngest passenger on board the ill-fated liner when it sankafter striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage in ...
Holy Ghost Fathers mark 150 years in Ireland
Jun 01, 2009; ... ONE OF the best-known religious congregations in Ireland begancelebrations at the weekend to mark the 150th anniversary of itsarrival in Ireland. The Holy Ghost or Spiritan congregation, as it has become knownmore recently, would be best known as being responsible for ...
User-friendly timetable for Leaving
Jun 01, 2009; ... EXAM TIMES: OVER 55,000 Leaving Cert students will have a moreuser-frienedly exam timetable this week after a review by the StateExams Commission (SEC). The SEC will this year continue the rebalancing of the timetable,which began last year. This comes after concerns that the ...
Tourists in Kerry march to sound of different drum
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE DRUMBEAT of the bodhran banished thoughts of the recessionthis weekend as thousands of tourists flocked to the mid-Kerry townof Milltown for the fourth annual World Bodhran Championships. Thetraditional goatskin drum workshops drew entries from Poland, Franceand Germany to the little ...
In short
Jun 01, 2009 ... A round-up of today's other home news in brief Gardai look into fire in Brittas BayGardai in Co Wicklow areinvestigating a fire at the seaside resort of Brittas Bay yesterdaythat gutted a van and threatened to engulf two houses. The van belonged to campers who had set up ...
Up to 5,000 more people may seek redress, law firm claims
Jun 01, 2009; ... ABUSE CASES:BETWEEN 2,000 and 5,000 more people may seek redressfor abuse experienced as children in religious-run institutions, aleading legal firm has estimated. A spokesman for the Dublin firm, which has been dealing withpeople abused in such institutions, said it based the ...
Sr Maxwell says 2002 deal may have been inadequate Cori figure has 'open mind' on payments
Jun 01, 2009; ... CONGREGATIONS: THE PRESENTATION Sister who helped negotiate the2002 compensation agreement for abuse victims with the Governmenthas said she is keeping her mind "totally open" on what furthercontributions the religious congregations may make in the context. Speaking to The Irish ...
Child protection the key, says bishop
Jun 01, 2009; ... YOUTH MINISTRY: CHILD PROTECTION guidelines introduced by theCatholic Church should ensure there is no safer place in Ireland foryoung people to be involved than in modern church work, theAuxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor has said. Launching the church's framework document on ...
Sisters of Mercy own extensive property portfolio
Jun 01, 2009; ... ORDER'S ASSETS: THE SISTERS of Mercy, cited in the Ryan report oninstitutional abuse, have an extensive portfolio of property andother assets, filings in the Companies Registration Office show. The order is involved in the ownership and operation of the Materhospital in Dublin and ...
Call for those guilty of child abuse to be prosecuted
Jun 01, 2009; ... CHRISTIAN BROTHERS: CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS should be broughtagainst those guilty of abusing children in religious-runinstitutions, the Christian Brothers has said. The order's communications director, Brother Edmund Garvey, saidyesterday the 18 orders, cited for abusing children in ...
FF fighting chance of holding Dublin seat - Cowen
Jun 01, 2009; ... EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen has insisted FiannaFail is still in with a fighting chance of holding its seat inDublin in the European Parliament elections despite Eoin Ryansuffering a 2 per cent drop in support in the latest Irish TimesTNS/mrbi opinion poll. Mr Cowen ...
Stolid message of dullness crackles from MEPs on air
Jun 01, 2009 ... MEDIA WATCH: Ears and eyes can detect little more than staidrhetoric on the burning electoral issues, writes MARY FITZGERALD EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT election campaigns are not known forscintillating debates, nor are they renowned for the kind of verbaljousting that will thrill ...
'Porridge' brings home the bacon for Kerry with a wave of his magic wand
Jun 01, 2009 ... On the canvass with John (Porridge) O'Connor : One voter said theFine Gael candidate should use the slogan 'Porridge, the HealthyOption', writes MAURICE NELIGAN LOCAL DEMOCRACY is thriving in South Kerry. Nobody could beunaware that an election is imminent. Posters of every size ...
Gilmore plots a path to political heaven through the capital's sunny streets
Jun 01, 2009 ... On the canvass with Eamon Gilmore: The Labour leader got a warmreception from the public in the sundrenched city centre, writes MIRIAM LORD HOW TO get to heaven from here? If you were starting from thejunction of O'Connell Street and North Earl Street on Saturday,there were two ...
Red flags abound as FF raise some white ones
Jun 01, 2009; ... COUNCIL PROFILE: FINGAL: THE RED flag flies over Fingal. Wellmaybe not quite, but Labour is its largest party and it is thecounty with the highest number of Socialist Party councillors. Half the State's total number of Socialists sit in Fingal. Whilethat is just two councillors, ...
EU critic's anti-Islam stance wins controversy and votes
Jun 01, 2009; ... EU PROFILE: THE NETHERLANDS: GEERT WILDERS, a former civilservant sporting a platinum-blond bouffant hairstyle, stands on thecusp of a significant electoral breakthrough in the Netherlands. Wilders's Party for Freedom (PVV), which he founded in 2004, iscampaigning on a populist ...
Boundary changes and internal rivalries mean heads will roll
Jun 01, 2009; ... COUNCIL PROFILE: DUN LAOGHAIRE-RATHDOWN: BOUNDARY CHANGES in DunLaoghaire-Rathdown will ensure heads will roll after June 5th, andthe battles are not just between parties but within them. Across the local electoral area, candidates are reportingnational politics issues are ...
MEPs urged to support right to life issue
Jun 01, 2009; ... BISHOPS' CONFERENCE: MEPS SHOULD hold "strong convictions onupholding the right to life" and should recognise the contributionof Christianity to the values of the European Union, according tothe Irish Bishops' Conference. The sentiments were expressed in a statement issued by ...
Ballot Beat
Jun 01, 2009 ... Compiled by MARIE O'HALLORAN Singing Senator seeks cousin's popularity Susan Boyle may have come second in the hit TV show Britain's GotTalentafter a gruelling brush with celebrity, but her Irishpolitician cousin is very impressed. Senator Dan Boyle, the Greenparty's ...
Public support for Lisbon rises as recession deepens
Jun 01, 2009 ... ANALYSIS: A key issue for the Yes side is the Government'sability to wage an effective campaign, writes STEPHEN COLLINS THE LATEST Irish Times/TNS mrbi poll confirms a trend that hasbeen developing for the past six months. There is now solid supportfor the Lisbon Treaty holding ...
McDaid concerned at low FF opinion poll ratings
Jun 01, 2009; ... OPINION POLLS: FORMER GOVERNMENT minister Jim McDaid has saidthat if Fianna Fail performs poorly in next weekend's election, theparty should consider going into opposition for the remainder ofthis Dail term. Dr McDaid said yesterday he was very concerned at Fianna Fail'slow ...
Assembly to debate PMS crisis
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE COLLAPSE of the Presbyterian Mutual Society (PMS) is expectedto dominate the annual Assembly of the Presbyterian Church inIreland which opens in Belfast this evening with the formalinstallation of new moderator, the Rev Stafford Carson. First Minister Peter Robinson said ahead ...
Two held after man attacked in Derry
Jun 01, 2009; ... PSNI DETECTIVES are treating as attempted murder an attack on aman in Coleraine, Co Derry. The man was attacked in the Harpur's Hill area of Coleraineshortly before 8pm on Saturday and resulted from "loyalist in-fighting", according to Sinn Fein. In Coleraine last Sunday ...
Corrib pipeline protest leads to eight arrests
Jun 01, 2009; ... PROTESTERS OPPOSED to Shell EP Ireland's controversial Corrib gaspipeline in Co Mayo have been involved in fresh clashes with gardaileading to the arrest of eight people. Gardai said up to 120 protesters gathered over the weekend at a"peace camp" beside Glengad beach, close to ...
Leap of faith pays off for charity
Jun 01, 2009; ... BRAVING THE heights, Ali Hewson, wife of U2 singer Bono, abseileddown the Elysian - Ireland's tallest building - in aid of ChernobylChildren's Project International at the weekend. Olya and Kristina, two girls from the heart of the Chernobylzone, who are in Ireland for critical ...
Permission for housing given near Castletown House
Jun 01, 2009; ... KILDARE COUNTY Council has granted planning permission for ahousing development at Donaghcumper Demesne, opposite CastletownHouse, in Co Kildare. In granting the application for 91 bungalows, the council imposeda number of conditions, including a stipulation that no rear ...
Sun-drenched Kilkenny festival has last laugh
Jun 01, 2009; ... COMEDIANS FROM around the world togged out for a gruelling kick-about in glorious sunshine yesterday. Ireland's funny-11 took on therest of the world in a heated game as part of the Carlsberg CatLaughs comedy festival which comes to a close in Kilkenny today. More than 25,000 ...
'Best of the Marquee' CD may be released
Jun 01, 2009; ... MUSIC PROMOTER Peter Aiken says he is considering releasing analbum to mark the success of the Live in the Marquee series ofconcerts in Cork which have attracted close to 400,000 music fans tothe city over the past five years. Aiken said he is considering a live Best of the ...
Fifteen Irish to crew in Clipper yacht race
Jun 01, 2009; ... FIFTEEN IRISH people have been named among the 43-strong team ofmen and women who will crew the 68-foot racing yacht, Cork, in theClipper Round the World Yacht Race which gets underway nextSeptember. The team includes crew from Ireland, as well as entrants from theUK, Australia, ...
Aaahh, that's bass
Jun 01, 2009; ... ANGLING NOTES: IN reply to the letter "Capturing bass" (The IrishTimes, May 8th), it is clear the writer is not a sea angler. Tocatch a bass today is a rare feat, to catch an Irish specimen overthe magical weight of 4.5kg (10lb) is a once-in-a-lifetime catch formost anglers. As ...
Brown in deeper trouble as poll puts Labour third
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE SENSE of crisis surrounding the leadership of British primeminister Gordon Brown deepened yesterday with a new poll warningthat Labour could fall to third place behind the Liberal Democratsin a general election. Renewed speculation about Mr Brown's position already seemed ...
Elegant gentleman thief lifts [euro]6.6m of jewellery in Paris
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE THIEF looked elegant in his suit and fedora hat. Employees atChopard, one of several luxury jewellery shops on the Place Vendome,assumed he was a potential customer and let him through the securitydoor. The man pulled a handgun from his pocket, demanded 15 piecesfrom the display ...
Boyle-mania set to roll on despite 'Talent' loss
Jun 01, 2009 ... LONDON - Dance group Diversity have heaped praise on singer SusanBoyle after their shock victory in the Britain's Got Talentfinal. The 11-member street dance troupe, from Essex, said theScotswoman (48), a long-time favourite to win the competition, waseven more magnanimous ...
Biggest ever civil defence drill gets under way in Israel
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE BIGGEST civil defence drill in Israel's history got under wayyesterday as the country's leaders denied it was directly linkedwith tensions over what Jerusalem believes is Iran's drive to obtaina nuclear bomb. During the five-day exercise more than 250 regional "crisisrooms" ...
Shootout set to drive further wedge between Hamas and Fatah in tense Palestinian politics
Jun 01, 2009 ... The incident could accelerate suspicions the police are linkedwith Israel, writes MICHAEL JANSEN THE QALQILIYA shootout, the most serious clash since Hamas seizedcontrol of Gaza last June, is likely to deepen the rift betweenFatah and Hamas and reinforce the suspicion among ...
'Lay an iron ring': Krushchev order for Berlin Wall is finally uncovered
Jun 01, 2009; ... ALMOST 20 years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has given up itslast secret. A German researcher has found in a Moscow archive thelong-sought, conclusive evidence of the decision to build the hatedstructure on August 13th, 1961 - with the direct approval of theSoviet Union. A ...
Pathologist claims to have found body of Rosa Luxemburg 90 years later
Jun 01, 2009; ... A GERMAN pathologist claims to have discovered the body ofcommunist campaigner Rosa Luxemburg, 90 years after she was killedin Berlin. A corpse found by chance in the cellar of Berlin's Charitehospital has similarities with the Polish-born campaigner, who wasabducted and murdered ...
Political tensions mar election in South Ossetia
Jun 01, 2009 ... TSKHINVALI - Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia votedyesterday in its first election since Russian forces saved it frombeing retaken by Georgian troops last August, but internal tensionsgrew over its leader's policies. Georgia denounced the poll as illegal. A sliver of ...
Ukrainian political rivals may form 'broad coalition'
Jun 01, 2009 ... KIEV - Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and formerpremier Viktor Yanukovich, longstanding rivals, are on the verge ofclinching a deal to form a ''broad coalition'', Ukrainian mediareported yesterday. Talks between groups led by the two politicians have taken ...
Iran blames West for pre-election bombings
Jun 01, 2009; ... POLITICAL TENSIONS in Iran ahead of watershed presidentialelections on June 12th intensified yesterday with the discovery of ahomemade bomb on board a domestic airliner. The incident closelyfollowed a deadly attack on a mosque that hardline Iranian leadersblamed on the US, Israel and ...
After latest election, power in India remains with family elites
Jun 01, 2009; ... DELHI LETTER: The Nehru-Gandhi Congress Party tops the politicaldynasty chart by a long way PREDICTABLY, INDIA'S recently concluded general election revealedthat politics in the world's largest democracy remains largely afamily business and many parliamentary seats are family ...
Terror and silence of Tiananmen resonate 20 years on
Jun 01, 2009 ... Official refusal to discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre cannotmute the significance and power of that day, writes CLIFFORD COONANin Beijing THURSDAY MARKS the 20th anniversary of the June 4th crackdown onpro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, a time of dramaticupheaval ...
For a few heady days in May 1989 anything seemed possible
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE EVENTS in what became the biggest challenge to CommunistParty rule in 40 years began in mid-April 1989 when public griefover the death of former party leader and popular reformer HuYaobang slowly took on a new dimension and students on the campusesof Beijing's great universities ...
A quick march to homelessness or shoddy housing for Russian military careerists
Jun 01, 2009 ... Streamlining plans leave many soldiers in far-flung outposts withlittle hope of post-army housing, writes PHILIP PAN in Ussuriysk,Russia AS A young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy,Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in the frontier city ofUssuriysk in the ...
In Short
Jun 01, 2009 ... A round-up of other world news in brief Chavez calls off marathon chat show CARACAS - Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had promised a four-day marathon edition of his widely watched weekly television talkshow, but unspecified technical problems threw the plans awry ...
General Motors set to file for bankruptcy
Jun 01, 2009; ... GENERAL Motors, the world's second biggest car manufacturer, ispoised to file for bankruptcy today after bondholders agreed to swapthe company's $27 billion debt for equity. GM, which has been surviving on $20 billion in government loans,hopes to emerge from bankruptcy protection ...
Kenny criticises move to invest [euro]7.5bn in Anglo
Jun 01, 2009; ... FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has said the Government's commitmentto invest up to [euro]7.5 billion in Anglo Irish Bank was a move toprotect a "golden circle" at the expense of hundreds of thousands oftaxpayers. Mr Kenny yesterday reiterated his party's policy that it wouldwind ...
Bristol-Myers may purchase stake in Elan
Jun 01, 2009; ... BRISTOL-MYERS Squibb is reportedly negotiating to purchase astake in Elan as the Irish-listed drug developer tries to shore upits finances. A source close to the deal confirmed yesterday that talks wereongoing, but neither company would confirm this last night. BothElan and ...
Call to speed up installation of Irish wind power projects
Jun 01, 2009; ... IRELAND IS facing a "serious bottleneck" in meeting ambitiousrenewable energy targets for 2020 and needs to accelerate thedelivery of wind power projects, according to the Irish Wind EnergyAssociation (IWEA). The association's chief executive Dr Michael Walsh yesterdaycited the ...
Turkey's leaders may lack the pluck to deal with much-needed reform of public finances
Jun 01, 2009; ... EIGHT MONTHS into loan negotiations with the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF), Turkey is increasingly looking the odd man outamong developing economies, apparently determined to go it alonewhile other emerging markets beg the IMF for money. But Turkish analysts say speculation ...
Merrion drug Orazol could be used to treat breast cancer
Jun 01, 2009; ... TABLET TECHNOLOGY developed by Merrion Pharmaceuticals could beused in the early treatment or prevention of breast cancer followingsuccessful trials in the treatment of bone cancer. The Dublin-listed firm said yesterday that it had concludedsuccessful phase two trials of the Orazol ...
'A shift in consumer demand to price and value'
Jun 01, 2009 ... Today we start a new series in which business people describe howthey and their organisations are adjusting to life After the Boom . GERRY ANDREWS has been in the retail business for more than 24years. He owns and manages three Spar shops - two in Balbriggan, CoDublin, and one in ...
A way to free up money to banks - or too good to be true?
Jun 01, 2009; ... BUSINESS OPINION: There is a danger that the ECB will eventuallyhave to start printing money HOW ABOUT this for an investment proposition? Somebody comesalong and says they will lend you money at 1 per cent interest soyou can go and buy another investment that returns 4 per cent ...
Making a grand but spooky entrance
Jun 01, 2009; ... DAVID STITH is becoming a dab hand at juggling. When the quietlyspoken twentysomething from upstate New York is not teachingsculpture, he's studying for his masters in graphic design. Whenhe's not contemplating one of his freelance graphic design gigs, heis thinking about his music. And ...
The student vet who asked herself 'what if?'
Jun 01, 2009 ... Is SE Connolly the Irish JK Rowling? The 23-year-old debutanteauthor, qualified vet and champion debater gives her missionstatement to ARMINTA WALLACE 'IT'S VERY STRANGE to suddenly be 'The Author," says SE Connolly,aka Susan Connolly, whose debut novel has just been published ...
REVIEWS
Jun 01, 2009 ... TONY CLAYTON-LEA reviews Beyonce at the 02, Dublin while MICHAELDERVAN reviews the Loughcrew Garden Opera, Oldcastle Beyonce O2 BEYONCE GISELLE Knowles has been a performer from about the ageof 10, first with Destiny's Child (a name inspired from a chapter inthe ...