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10% tax on junk food to tackle obesityA 10% tax on fizzy drinks, sweets, biscuits, crisps, and chocolate is to be recommended to the health minister as a way of tackling the country's soaring obesity problem.
Prayer vigil for fine weather as farmers queue for fodderA 24-hour prayer vigil for fine weather has been held on the Kerry-Cork border.
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It’s technology, Jim, but not as we know it WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.
Berlusconi’s party girls dressed as nuns, Obama Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured women dressed not just as sexy nuns and nurses, but also as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor that the former Italian premier has accused of persecuting him.
- BUSINESS
IBRC delays loan valuations, saleThe valuation and sale of IBRC loans has been pushed out by six months to November and December of this year.
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The Terry Reilly Interview: The Godfather of GalwayOver the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.
Super Blues keep double in sightsJoe Schmidt's side won their third European trophy in successive years and gave Connacht reason to celebrate also as the Westerners gained entry to next season's Heineken Cup courtesy of their neighbours to the east.
- LIFESTYLE
Let in the seasonal lightYOUR wardrobe isn't the only thing that needs updating once the barometer starts to rise.
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Victim had survived mall shooting last month
By Jason Kennedy
One of the 12 victims of yesterday’s Denver cinema massacre tweeted her excitement about the screening just minutes before she was murdered.
Sportscaster Jessica Redfield, who had only recently moved to the Colorado capital from Texas, tweeted that she was set to attend the midnight viewing after she persuaded a friend to come with her.“Never thought I’d have to coerce a guy into seeing the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises with me.” Later she posted: “[I] actually won the argument. He’s going.”
Her final tweet was to her friend Jesse Spector, saying that the screening was going to start in 20 minutes.
Mr Spector later paid tribute to his friend, saying that the world is worse off without her.
“Words are useless. Guns more so. If you ever had any interaction with Jessica Redfield, you know the world is much worse off without her. Don’t know what else to say other than send my best to the families of [Jessica] and the other victims.”
Just last month, Ms Redfield narrowly avoided a shooting in a Toronto shopping centre. In her last blog post, Ms Redfield described how her life changed by narrowly avoiding the shooting.
“I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath,” she wrote.
“It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.”