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Tesco to drop 150 Jobs
Tesco announced today that they are to let go almost 150 jobs at their head office
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Swine flu at second Cavan school
September 11, 2009 - 10:04 am
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A second school in Co Cavan – Breffni College in Cavan town – is dealing with an outbreak of human swine flu.
The principal of the secondary school contacted the HSE yesterday after a number of pupils presented with flu-like symptoms.
Following discussions with medical experts, the principal decided that the school should remain open.
Arrangements are being [...]
Bank strips students of free exotic dance offer
September 10, 2009 - 12:02 pm
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ULSTER bank offered college students free tickets to a strip show as part of a promotion to encourage them to open new bank accounts.
However, following an outpouring of anger from parents, the bank was last night forced to withdraw from the exotic dancing event being hosted in a Dublin nightclub.
Students at Tallaght Institute of Technology [...]
120 jobs to go in Waterford
June 30, 2009 - 9:53 pm
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Nearly 200 jobs are to be lost in counties Waterford and Mayo.
Eye care products manufacturer Bausch & Lomb is expected to announce tomorrow morning that 120 people are to be made redundant at its plant in Waterford.
This will bring employment at the factory down to below 1,100, nearly 700 people less than were employed here [...]
Rowe tries to contact Jackson family
June 30, 2009 - 9:57 am
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It has been reported that Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of two of Michael Jackson’s children, has made attempts to get in contact with the Jackson family.
A friend of Rowe’s told People that she had left multiple messages for the Jackson family but has been unsuccessful in establishing contact.
Marc Schaffel, a former Jackson business associate [...]
Murray survives a draining battle
June 30, 2009 - 9:50 am
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JOHNNY WATTERSON At Wimbledon
TENNIS WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS: THROUGHOUT THESE long evenings it has essentially been a question of faith. It helps through the more troubled night sessions, the periods of doubt, the questioning and the hand-wringing. But this is not the brittle Tim Henman, the talented player who a nation wished to clothe in chain mail [...]
Iran upholds Ahmadinejad victory
June 30, 2009 - 9:41 am
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Iran confirmed hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president and said a row over his June 12 re-election was over, leaving opponents with few options.
Iran’s top legislative body, the Guardian Council, said a partial recount yesterday had disproved complaints of irregularities by pro-reform opponents, who said the count was inadequate and that only annulling the election would [...]
13 die in Italian train explosion
June 30, 2009 - 9:33 am
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A freight train has derailed in Italy causing two cars filled with liquefied natural gas to explode.
At least 13 people were killed and 36 injured when two freight train containers carrying liquefied petroleum gas exploded at a railway station in northern Italy, officials said.
The blast occurred in the northern Italian town of Viareggio at about [...]
Airliner with 153 on board crashes in Indian Ocean
June 30, 2009 - 9:24 am
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An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into choppy seas as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros today.
An official from the state carrier Yemenia said some bodies had been recovered from the wreck. The official could not say whether [...]
Jackson ’severely emaciated’
June 29, 2009 - 11:08 am
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Michael Jackson weighed just over 8st when he passed away last week after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, according to reports.
Leaked autopsy details reportedly show the singer was a “virtual skeleton”, whose stomach was empty except for partially-dissolved prescription pills.
It is understood he ate just one tiny meal a day.
His [...]
Just a fifth of alcoholics getting treatment
June 29, 2009 - 10:49 am
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Around 250,000 people in Ireland are alcoholics yet just a fifth are receiving treatment, it was claimed today.
More than a third of all drinkers binge with the cost of tackling alcohol-related problems soaring to over €900m a year, according to the country’s leading mental health hospital.
As St Patrick’s University Hospital unveiled its new addiction and [...]