The Irish Government will work with a range of Telecoms companies to ensure a nationwide roll out of fast Broadband over the next three years.

This will be the single most important investment needed to secure future jobs in Ireland Minister Rabbitte told new graduates at a conferring ceremony in UCC this morning. The Communications Minister explained that the process would involve two phases – firstly the telecoms industry needs to be freed up so that the range of companies […]

9 TDs Demand Accurate Reporting of Registration Figures

The 9 TDs supporting the Boycott of the Household Tax today demand that the Agency responsible for collecting the Household Tax and Media report strictly accurate figures relating to the total numbers of households and this should include an account of those: a) required to register b) numbers registered and c) numbers paid. In recent […]

IFA AND MUINTIR NA TIRE DISCUSS RURAL AFFAIRS ISSUES

At a joint meeting of the IFA and Muintir na Tíre, both organisations agreed to work together to tackle the growing incident of robberies and thefts in rural Ireland. IFA Deputy President & Countryside spokesman Eddie Downey said, “The increased incidence of metal and fuel thefts from farm yard and out-farms needs to be tackled […]

Integrating Housing Services: Rent Supplement to Housing Assistance Payment

The Minister for Housing & Planning Jan O’Sullivan TD announced today (27 March 2012) that the Government gave their agreement in principle to proposals for the transfer of responsibility for providing financial assistance to persons on rent supplement from the Department of Social Protection to housing authorities. Housing authorities will provide this service using a […]

Fa Executive Council To Discuss Fiscal Compact Referendum

IFA President John Bryan said he would be presenting the details of the referendum on the Fiscal Compact to a special meeting of the IFA Executive Council next Tuesday, April 3rd. John Bryan said the members of the Executive Council would hold a full discussion, and would then issue a recommendation to the almost 90,000 […]

High Court injunction sought against Anglo payments Summons presented to Taoiseach’s Office

At 2:00pm today, Tuesday March 27 a petition was presented to the High Court seeking an injunction to prevent the Taoiseach and his Government making any further payments to unsecured Anglo bondholders. After they presented their case at the High Court, Ben Gilroy, John Squires and their supporters walked from the Four Courts to An Taoiseach’s […]

Tourism Ireland comment on cso figures for December 2011 TO February 2012

27 March 2012 – Commenting on the CSO figures issued today for overseas visitor numbers to Ireland for the three-month period December 2011 to February 2012, Niall Gibbons, chief executive of Tourism Ireland, said:Despite the global economic landscape of recent months, which continues to present a challenging environment for travel, I am pleased to see […]

Late Payment Directive Can Help Cash-Flow For Smes – Prendergast

Labour MEP Phil Prendergast has called for the speedy implementation of an EU directive covering late payments to businesses, following new figures showing the average waiting time for settling invoices in Ireland is 71 days. According to ISME’s Spring Credit Watch Survey, the waiting time in Munster is 75 days in the private sector. Ms […]

NA FIANNA GAA FOOTBALL CLUB

G.A.A CLUB NOTES DATE: 27 MARCH 2012     FEILE FUNRAISING CAKE SALE There was a very good turnout for the Feile Fundraising Cake Sale which took place last Sunday morning in Ballinagar and the club would like to Thank everybody who donated and bought cakes on the day whose generosity is very much appreciated making […]

RAHEEN GAA CLUB

G.A.A CLUB NOTES DATE: 27 MARCH 2012      LOTTO The numbers drawn in Tuesday [19th March 2012] night’s Lotto were 02 07 08 14. There was 1 Jackpot Winner of €6,200 [Pauric O’Rourke – Geashill C/O Geashill P/O] and 3 Match 3 Winners [Liam Boland Snr C/O Liam Boland; Tomas Feery C/O Tom Feery; […]

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