Irish voters yesterday delivered a resounding endorsement of the Lisbon Treaty, causing waves of relief and celebration in Brussels and Dublin about ...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home
Voting ends to decide whether Dublin should ratify the EU's Lisbon treaty....
AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home
Ireland was the first nation to tax plastic bags as a way to stop them littering the countryside. Now the Emerald Isle plans to double its levy to a punitive 44 euro cents (59 U.S. cents) per bag.
The 7-year-old policy has already generated more than euro120 million ($175 million). It also has sharply reduced Irish reliance on throwaway bags – once running at 1.2 billion per year, or more than 300 for every man, woman and child.
The Department of the Environment announced Thursday that the charge will be doubled to ensure a "sufficient deterrent" to shoppers who arrive at checkout counters with no shopping bags of their own.
The tax will be doubled from 22 euro cents as part of an environmental bill being published next month.
The Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home
A judge in the Republic of Ireland was accidentally shot in the face by a solicitor who was trying to demonstrate that an air pistol was harmless. J...
GlobalPost | Conor O'Clery | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
By Conor O'Clery | GlobalPost DUBLIN -- Irish newspapers struggled on Thursday to convey the enormity of the horrors inflicted for decades by reli...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Child-abuse activists warned Thursday that Ireland failed to learn the lessons from decades of unchecked brutality inside Catholic Chur...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
DUBLIN — After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Cat...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
DUBLIN — Suspected IRA dissidents and their supporters hijacked cars Monday in working-class Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in a coordinated...
RTÉ News | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Who snuck nude paintings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen into two of Dublin's most prestigious museums?...
Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.18.2009 | Home
Sylvester Stallone Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger will all be coming to a cinema near you on April 23, 2...
Dygest.net | Posted 03.16.2009 | Home
Mazda says it has developed Japan's first urea treatment system for clean diesels, to be used in Japanese and European diesel models of the 2010 Mazda...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home