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4 days ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Regan |Senan Molony
The scheme was opened in March 2024, and was announced alongside the appointment of a "special advocate" to act as a voice for survivors. In her first annual report brought to Cabinet today, Patricia Carey says the eligibility criteria for redress have caused "anger and distress" to many, has re- traumatised some survivors and has created a "hierarchy of suffering”.
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4 days ago | 
independent.ie | Gráinne Ní Aodha |Senan Molony
An awareness campaign is expected to be launched to encourage people to apply for the scheme, with a particular focus on people living in Great Britain. The Government set up the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme with the expectation of issuing payments to around 34,000 people and health supports to 19,000 people who were in mother and baby homes, at a cost of €800 million.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
All people with existing tenancies, so long as they stay where they are, will only be faced with a 2pc annual rent rise, or the Consumer Price Index rate of inflation, whichever is the lower. Confirmation that all renters are now covered came after the Seanad rushed all stages of the legislation today and it was sent immediately to Áras an Uachtaráin.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
Mr Fitzgerald (22) entered the Fairgreen Shopping Centre in Carlow town on June 1 and discharged a number of rounds from a shotgun before taking his own life. He had been facing 13 charges for possessing military-grade guns, ammunition and explosive substances following a garda investigation into the purchase of firearms on the dark web.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
Calling it the “Goo Lagoon”, Mr O'Gorman told the Dáil the lagoon, which is designated a special protection area, was "going the way of Lough Neagh, already toxic from algae bloom”. There was an urgent need for a large reduction in nutrient runoff from agricultural land in order to save the lake, he said. "It's important we don't frame this as blaming farmers, but the impact of nutrient runoff at this significant site is absolutely clear,” Mr O’Gorman said.
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1 week ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Senan Molony
Today is Bloomsday – and an exclusive picture released to the Belfast Telegraph echoes the main theme of James Joyce’s Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest novel of the 20th century. The music and lyrics of Love’s Old Sweet Song resonate through Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom’s life on June 16, 1904, as he realises his singer wife Molly Bloom is about to be unfaithful to him.
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1 week ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
Bloomsday: Never-before-seen music for key love song in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ recovered from Titanic wreckageThe sheet music (right) from ‘Love’s Old Sweet Song’ which was recovered from the Titanic. The song features in ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce (left). Today is Bloomsday – and an exclusive picture released to the Irish Independent echoes the main theme of James Joyce’s Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
An interview panel at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) decided to change the assessment criteria, so that the character of a person shown at interview would amount to 40pc of all the marks available, instead of just half that. The award was made because the person received 36 marks out of 40 for “suitability” shown at interview, compared to marks of 32, 30 and 14 in this area for three other contenders.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
Phone pouches for schools are now to be joined by other forms of secure storage after a cabinet decision this week. Funding of €9m was allocated in the last Budget for the pouches, which Sinn Féin immediately branded an example of government waste. However, a central procurement arrangement will be put in place to enable nationwide phone bans starting from the next school year.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Senan Molony
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has already criticised one of the two men – the Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the National Religious Party-Religious Zionism. He and the Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are to be sanctioned by the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway. The move has angered Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in connection with alleged war crimes.
