Saturday, July 4, 2009
THE massive cost to taxpayers of the bank bailout has sent the mid-year exchequer deficit soaring to €14.7 billion, new figures reveal.
THE Irish tribunal system has been described as the "greatest gravy train in Irish history" after it was revealed that two individual barristers were paid over €8.5 million each out of a total €85m paid over to lawyers.
GARDAÃ have smashed two gangs and arrested 80 dealers in a massive blitz targeting drug gangs in Dublin city centre.
FOOTAGE of Michael Jackson performing some of his most famous hits for the final time was released last night.
US MARINES hiked through searing heat taking fire from small pockets of militants after landing in the Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilise Afghanistan.
THE GAA could have to cough up €2m of annual commercial income to stave off further unrest and disruption to the Championships from agitating inter-county players.
THE number of firms that will collapse this year will hit levels never before seen in the State.
The bad economic news is unrelenting and unforgiving, but the Government is fearful of taking action, even though our recession is the deepest in the developed world, our recovery is many years off and will be weak when it happens, and non-existent until the public finances are sorted
The Tour de France gets going in Monaco today and Brian Canty is intrigued by which reputations will be won and lost
WHEN organisers of the Tour de France said that last year’s event was a little sterile and it needed a shot in the arm to win back the public opinion, they could hardly have hoped for better.
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