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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The Passport Office will now allow children's passports to be renewed online as part of a range of new measures
29.11.2018The expanded service means that all Irish citizens can now renew their passports online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world. The cost of renewing passports online is €5 cheaper, with a turnaround time of ten working days for all online applications, excluding postage. People renewing their passports online […]
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Donegal hotel earmarked for asylum seekers set on fire
27.11.2018A Donegal hotel earmarked to welcome more than 100 asylum seekers was set on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at the Caiseal Mara Hotel in Moville at around 4am just hours before a meeting to arrange a welcome party for the asylum seekers was held. Local firefighters managed […]
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Landlords to be criminalised for breaching rent caps
25.11.2018Landlords who raise rents higher than the legally allowed limit in rent pressure zones will be criminalised and may be forced to re-let their property at the appropriate price, the Attorney General has warned. Séamus Woulfe SC told a Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) event on Thursday, hosted by Constance Cassidy SC at the Capuchin Day […]
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Do you or a member of your community have a story about women migrants in Ireland or abroad?
23.11.2018Join us this weekend at EPIC The Emigration Museum to share your story. We’re keen to collect new and previously unheard stories of women migrants – whether they be distant relatives whose stories have been passed down from one generation to the next, or contemporary women forging a new path for themselves in Ireland […]
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Irish parents to be given full year off to look after newborns
23.11.2018Irish parents will be able to take an entire year off to look after their newborn in light of plans to extend parental benefit, it has been reported. Both parents will receive seven weeks of paid leave each by 2021. This combined with existing maternity and paternity entitlements and normal annual leave will give couples […]
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Brexit agreement: highlights from EU, UK deal on future relationship
22.11.2018Britain and the European Union have agreed in principle on a text setting out their future relationship. The deal is pending endorsement by the bloc’s leaders at a summit on Sunday. Here are some key elements of the 26-page draft text. It is part of a package alongside the 500-page legal treaty, known as the […]
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Scientific Hypnotherapy is available in Ireland now
21.11.2018Hypnotism in one form or another has been practiced for a very long time. For hundreds of years the Yogis of Ancient India have applied the practice in various ways. They would throw themselves and others into a trance state of mind through concentration on various mantras. Hypnotic phenomena can be observed in the ancient […]
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Irish passports issued to UK increase, while numbers fall in France, Germany and Spain
20.11.2018OVER THE PAST three years, the London embassy has issued the highest number of Irish passports of any diplomatic office in the world, while the rate for other European cities has trailed off. While approval rates of UK requests for Irish passports has increased in the past few years – and in particular since the […]
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