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Safe Hands
Safe Hands
This writing lark can be a tough job, especially when you have nothing to write about. Last week your correspondent found himself in such a story-less state and told his colleague Jackie Spain of his predicament. She informed this correspondent of a story she’d heard of ten wheel-barrows...
Pay Rise for Senior Management at Irish Water
Pay Rise for Senior Management at Irish Water
The Labour Relations CommiBack dated Pay rise for Senior Management at Irish Waterssion has announced that Senior Management in Irish Water will receive an annual pay rise of 1.5 percent to 3 percent. Unions had brought the matter to the LRC last November...
Separate Ways
As daft entitlements go, your correspondent came across a doozy recently while reading a story concerning a ruling made by the High Court of Madras, India in relation to a disagreement between a divorced couple over maintenance.
To fill you (reader) in, a divorced women had argued that she wished...
How Could This Still Be Happening?
How Could This Still Be Happening?
On a rainy day on Friday 14th August 2015, at a little past 3 pm, on a grass public area between Fatima & Rialto Luas stop two people lay on the ground in an embraced way. The two were keeping warm and dry as best as they could possibly could. They had some kind...
The Impact of Technology on Children
Young children have become very adept with modern technology. Whether it is showing grandma how to send a text or playing with their computer games, they know how to do it. While it is beneficial to be computer savvy and not a technophobe, it can cause some problems. Dr Iain McGilchrist, who is a medical...
Supervised Injection Centre’s For Dublin
The idea of providing a space where people can, under supervision, legally inject drugs would have until recently, it would be fair to say, alarmed a great many people. But attitudes may be changing. The Ana Liffy drug project and the Bar Council are right now working on draft legislation that would...
Pulling Power
Pulling Power
Although having no memory of it, this correspondent must have enjoyed his first taste of chocolate, as the sight of them in shops & petrol stations nowadays stimulates an urge to consume them. The same was true, years later for tasting Bulmers, although your correspondent does remember...
The Summit of Conscience on Climate Change
So how is the weather treating you today? The climate seems volatile, thank you sir. Confused yet? Weather and climate are at times mistaken for the same thing, but there is a difference.
The weather is a temporary state of meteorological conditions. Climate is a constant state of conditions recorded...
Between Generations, St Theresa Gardens
Between Generations, St Theresa Gardens
Some years ago (though not too many mind!), I grew up in St Theresa’s Gardens. A place, that myself and my family still have fond memories of and converse about regularly, though to others the name brings connotations of tough living. For some time now, the...
Should Drugs Be Decriminalised In Ireland?
Should Drugs Be Decriminalised In Ireland?
Last week at Leinster House, the Minister of State for the National Drugs Strategy, Minister Aodhán Ó Riórdain, was speaking to the House about the decriminalisation of drugs and if legal highs should be banned. In an interview last week with the Medical...
Local Property Tax Survey for Dublin
Local Property Tax Survey for Dublin
Dublin City Council is inviting the public and other interested parties to take part in a survey to conclude if the Local Property Tax (LPT) should be varied in Dublin for 2016. On the 1st July 2013 the annual LPT became effective and is collected by the Revenue...
