Senan Molony

6 days ago | sundayworld.com | Senan Molony

NEW LAWS | Enhanced data sharing with gardaí will make the requirements redundant, super junior transport minister Seán Canney said. A motor tax disc. Stock image: Getty. Today at 03:30The need to display an insurance disc and tax disc on the windscreen of vehicles will soon come to an end. Enhanced data sharing with gardaí will make the requirements redundant, super junior transport minister Seán Canney said.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Senan Molony

Enhanced data sharing with gardaí will make the requirements redundant, super junior transport minister Seán Canney said. “We’re going to get rid of all that clutter, which will be welcomed by many motorists,” he said, mentioning that several European countries have already abandoned the need for physical evidence on every vehicle. The National Vehicle and Driver File Bill, now going to the drafting stage, will allow for the abolition of the requirement to display a motor tax disc.

1 week ago | irishcentral.com | Senan Molony

On April 15, 1912, Bridget Delia Bradley, from County Cork, went mad with fear and tried to clamber back out of a lifeboat and onto the sinking Titanic. On April 15, 1912, the Belfast-built RMS Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew on board. This was one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history and among those on board were many Irish. IrishCentral takes a look at the Irish on board – the lucky, unlucky and heroic.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Senan Molony

The first opinion poll by the Irish Times since the general election shows the party plunging to 16pc, its joint worst ever showing. It basically means only one in six voters would give their first preference to the party that founded the Free State, one of the Big Two of yesteryear. But is it a rogue poll, or has the Fine Gael brand really tumbled so badly? And there is another straw in the wind. A few weeks ago, a Business Post poll had the party at 17pc, down three points.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Senan Molony |Tabitha Monahan

Grace report author declined to write a quick synopsis of six-volume, 2,000–page deliveryChildren's Minister Norma Foley recently met with report author Marjorie Farrelly. Photo: PASenan Molony and Tabitha MonahanToday at 03:30The Department of Children has confirmed that the author of this week’s final Grace report declined to write an executive summary, an overview that is typical of such reports submitted to government.