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Kraft takeover of Cadbury's leaves bad taste (Free article)
21 January 2010
FEARS for more than 1,200 jobs at Cadbury plants in Ireland after the household name in chocolate was swallowed up by US giant Kraft Foods in a €13 billion takeover this week have been raised by trade union Unite. The union says the news on Tuesday marked "a very sad day for Irish manufacturing and a great traditional company". Cadbury has…
THE JULIA CARNEY COLUMN (Free article)
21 January 2010
EVERY now and again, an article appears that is so self-evidently ridiculous, containing a poorly structured argument so laugh-out-loud terrible that I'm tempted simply to print it in full, but this option does strike me as a little lazy. I do strongly recommend people track this one down though. It's worth reading in its entirety.
RBS bank axes 221 jobs in Ireland (Free article)
21 January 2010
THE Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which owns Ulster Bank, has been urged by the Irish Bank Officials' Association to reconsider its announcement on Tuesday that it is to cut 221 jobs on the island of Ireland as part of a major restructuring programme. The bank met with 196 technology services staff in its Dublin office and 25 in Belfast on…
GAA footballers targeted by loyalist bombers (Free article)
21 January 2010
Members of St Comgall's GAA club in Antrim were targeted by sectarian bombers last week. Two crude explosive devices were hidden near the Stiles Community Centre in Antrim Town last Thursday night, 14 January, where members of the St Comgall's squad train. The PSNI described the bombs, which had to be dealt with by British army bomb experts as,…
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
21 January 2010
The GAA's new experimental playing rules were launched last week to a mixed response. The two which have given rise to most debate are the Aussie rule-style 'mark', which gives a player who makes a clean catch what in effect amounts to a free kick, and a tightening up of the hand pass rule. The latter in particular appears to have led to a lot…
Bloody Sunday Commemoration 2010 (Free article)
21 January 2010
This year's Bloody Sunday commemorative events will highlight issues around the Saville Report, which was promised for March this year. A serious concern for the relatives of the victims of Bloody Sunday is that the release of the report may be further delayed. It will first go to the British government and a lot then depends on how quickly the…
Remembering the Past: Border busters challenge Ireland's 'Berlin Wall' (Free article)
21 January 2010
In November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and the process of German reunification began. Irish republicans were quick to point to the fact that while this was happening, the partition boundary in Ireland was being reinforced by the British Army and RUC, with the help of the government in Dublin.
Nuacht na nOibrithe (Free article)
21 January 2010
Strike notice at Mater Private Hospital, Limerick hospital action intensifies and Element Six rehires sacked staff through agency
The world's most famous gable end (Free article)
21 January 2010
BOOK REVIEW 'Free Derry Wall' Compiled By Jim Collins and Adrian Kerr Published By Guildhall Press and The Museum of Free Derry Price £12.95
Strabane marks 20th anniversary of teen's tragic death (Free article)
21 January 2010
A memorial plaque is to be unveiled this Sunday 24 January in Strabane to mark the 20th Anniversary of the death of local teenager Charlie Love, who was tragically killed while attending the Bloody Sunday Commemoration in Derry on 28 January 1990.
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