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2018 Another Record Low for Road Fatalities 4% drop in road deaths in 2018 compared to 2017
05.01.2019Provisional road collision statistics for 2018 show Ireland continued to improve its road safety performance by recording a 4% drop in road deaths, making it the safest year since road deaths were first recorded in 1959. Up to 3pm on the 31 December 2018 a total of 149 people lost their lives on Ireland’s roads […]
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Translation company secures €500k funding
04.01.2019Full service translation and interpreting company, TRANSLIT, has secured half a million euro in funding through private equity firm, Clashrock Capital. Headquartered in Cork, with offices in Dublin and Limerick, TRANSLIT has an impressive portfolio of national and international public and private sector clients. The company, which employs translators and interpreters all around the world, […]
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House prices in Ireland rose by 5.5% or €1,000 a month during 2018
31.12.2018House prices in Ireland rose by 5.5%, or €1,000, a month during 2018, according to the latest House Price Survey released today by the property website, daft.ie. The average price nationwide in the final quarter of the year was €254,000, down 1.1% on the figure for the third quarter. In Dublin, prices rose by 2.9% […]
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Previewing Ireland’s economy in 2019: The stats don’t lie – Ireland is doing well right now
29.12.2018WRITING THIS TIME last year, I expected our economic fortunes to get better before they got worse. I saw clouds gathering on the distant horizon, but no major storms forecast for 2018. Ireland isn’t quite partying like it’s 2006, but the stats don’t lie – 2018 has been a bumper year by most measures. The […]
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The myth of the free council house: 'We're not just handing them over, that would be crazy
26.12.2018LAST YEAR, SOCIAL housing tenants paid almost €351 million to local authorities in rent. According to Mary Hayes, administrative officer for Dublin City Council housing allocations, getting a local authority home is “not as easy as people think”. And she said no one is simply handed a ‘free house’. There is a strict set of […]
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New laws on learner drivers in effect from Saturday
21.12.2018Car owners who allow learner drivers to use their cars unaccompanied will face fines or jail terms under new laws coming into force from midnight tonight. The Road Safety Authority said an average of 12 fatal road crashes a year involve a learner driver and about ten of those are not accompanied by a qualified […]
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AirBaltic reintroduce its Riga – Dublin service with 4 weekly flights starting from March 2019
20.12.2018For the summer season, Latvian national airline airBaltic will reintroduce flights between Dublin and Riga for convenient point-to-point travel, as well as efficient connecting flights via North Hub Riga to/from destinations in the Baltics, Scandinavia and Russia/CIS.
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A Chernobyl Children Christmas tradition creates magic at Dublin Airport and across Ireland.
18.12.2018President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins to welcome children to Áras an Uachtaráin with Adi Roche and Ali Hewson on following day, Wednesday. A group of 40 children with special needs from Belarus will fly into Dublin Airport, continuing a heart-warming Christmas tradition that has linked families across Ireland with victims of the Chernobyl disaster […]
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Drivers face penalty points, €80 fine if stopped without licence
11.12.2018Drivers will be hit with automatic penalty points and an €80 fine if they are pulled over and do not have their driving licence to hand, under proposals being tabled by Minister for Transport Shane Ross. The changes would remove discretion from gardaí to allow motorists present at a station with their licence if they […]
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Christmas average spend per household nearly €2,700 – Retail Ireland
11.12.2018Irish households will each spend €2,690 on average this Christmas, according to research by the business group Retail Ireland. The figure represents a 3% increase on the average spend last year. With just over three weeks to go to Christmas, the busiest shopping period of the year is in full swing. According to Retail Ireland’s Christmas Retail Monitor, […]
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