Publication: Irish Times

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 41 mins ago - 3 reports

New proposals for teachers and nurses as marathon pay talks continue

Teachers who lose supervision and substitution payments as part of a revised Croke Park II agreement would receive the money back as part of their core pay within five years, under the terms of new proposals drawn up overnight.Highly- placed sources said ... [Published Irish Times - 41 mins ago]

Entities: Brendan Howlin, Marathon, Croke Park, Time Premium, Community Service

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 2 reports

Marks & Spencer Group Plc

Business bemoans lack of understanding as row about UK corporate tax intensifies

Last weekend Michael Devereux mused about the identity of the next company that would face public opprobrium over the size of its corporate tax payments and the rules it uses to reduce them.Devereux, who heads the Centre for Business Taxation at the University ... [Published Irish Times - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, United Kingdom, Margaret Hodge, Marks & Spencer Group Plc

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

World Health Organization

Smoking at home may kill as many as road traffic collisions

Smoking in the home can generate pollution six times higher than the World Health Organisation’s outdoor recommendations. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters Smoking in the home may be causing as many fatalities as road traffic collisions according to new ... [Published Irish Times - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Smoking, Indoor Air Pollution, World Health Organization, Pollution

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Charity has to return €130,000 of fraudulent payments

A Co Kildare-based charity has had to return more than €130,000 in donations in recent weeks after its website was targeted as part of a credit card scam. The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation said it had provided rebates on more than 1,000 fraudulent ... [Published Irish Times - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Fraud, Donations, Online Scams, iPod, PartyPoker

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 3 reports

Irish treasure to be returned from the UK

Treasure hunters using metal detectors are believed to have been behind the removal of nearly 900 artefacts from Ireland that have been recovered in the UK. Pictured are 28 medieval silver coins which were recovered by Norfolk Constabulary. Photograph: ... [Published Irish Times - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Ireland, Ned Kelly, United Kingdom

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 reports

Nursing home used CCTV ‘as substitute for supervisory staff’

Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes: said there were concerns over in workplaces where "workers perceive that their work performance is being monitored on a live basis". Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins A nursing home used CCTV monitored by smartphones ... [Published Irish Times - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Billy Hawkes, CCTV, Data Protection, Smartphone

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Shatter’s robust defence of Wallace revelation causes unease in Labour

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter: said information was relayed to him as part of a general briefing on the cancellation of penalty points. Photograph: Bryan O???Brien The robust defence by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter of his revelation that Independent ... [Published Irish Times - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Alan Shatter, Malaise, Billy Hawkes

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 7 reports

Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk, abortion hearings told

Prof Kevin Malone, School of Medicine & Medical Science at UCD and St Vincent’s University Hospital. Psychiatrists could be seen to be the "gatekeepers to abortion" if the provision allowing for terminations where a pregnant woman is suicidal is enacted, ... [Published Irish Times - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Suicide, Abortion, judges, Kevin Malone

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 3 reports

Improving preschool tuition

When an official report from the Department of Education and the Health Service Executive expresses concern about the quality of tuition provided to young children during the free preschool year, Ministers should pay close attention.The scheme was introduced ... [Published Irish Times - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Education, Creativity

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Feminism discussion opens 2013 writers festival

From left : Una Mullally, journaslist, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the civil liberties organisation, and Louise Lowe, theatre director and playwright, on the opening night of the Dublin Writers Festival, at Smock Alley Theatre. Photograph: ... [Published Irish Times - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Feminism, Dan Brown, Alley Theatre, Shami Chakrabarti, Eric Luke

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 5 reports

Shatter stands over decision to reveal incident

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at a memorial service for garda?? killed in the line of duty at Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has robustly stood over his ... [Published Irish Times - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Alan Shatter, Hypocrisy, Kevin Humphries, Quash

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 5 reports

Government firm on working hours increase in pay talks

Chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission Kieran Mulvey: to brief Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin today on progress in the pay talks. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times Government sources have said the provision of ... [Published Irish Times - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Brendan Howlin, Community Service, Brian Hayes, Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical ...

Quotes

"It may well be that thats dealt with by the need to prosecutions only through the director of Public Prosecutions but it is certainly a matter I ask the committee to give some consideration to."

Allowing abortion for suicidal women marks change in law, committee told [Published Irish Times - 25 mins ago]

"We are working a 24-hour, 52 weeks a year shift pattern, including public holidays, for a rate applied to day workers. All we are seeking is fair pay for the hours and shifts that we work" he added

Water treatment plant workers in Wicklow go on strike [Published Irish Times - 1 hour ago]

...representing her husband, who was at yesterday’s hearing, said he agreed with the psychiatrist’s evaluation, and the woman’s mother told the judge: "I know my daughter when she is well and she is definitely not well."

British court to rule on abortion application [Published Irish Times - 1 hour ago]

"Having €130,000 would allow us to provide one month of nursing carecare for 300 Jack & Jill babies," he said. "It horrifies one to think there is so much money sloshing around and that charity website are being cynically used to test security programs."

Charity has to return €130,000 of fraudulent payments [Published Irish Times - 1 hour ago]

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