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I was a garda’s wife and we lived in barely habitable stations

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I was a garda’s wife and we lived in barely habitable stations

As regards an article in the Irish Examiner about the condition of Macroom garda station, during my late husband’s service in the Garda Siochana, I lived in the married quarters of two garda stations, for a total of ten years.

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Fears flood works will cause traffic chaos

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Flood campaigners to plead for emergency funding

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TD to ‘protect state’ from flood cases

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Castle to be reopened despite row
OPW covers the €5m cost of gardaí’s mobile phone calls

GARDAÍ have run up €5 million in mobile phone calls since 1997, leaving the Office of Public Works (OPW) to pick up the bill.

Wed, 15 Dec, 2004

OPW pays multimillion euro bill for garda mobile calls

GARDAÍ have made millions of euro worth of calls on phones supplied by O2, leaving the OPW to pick up the tab.

Fri, 10 Dec, 2004

Spending the key to next election
MICHAEL NOONAN’S appointment as chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.

Sat, 23 Oct, 2004

Flood defence doubt over toxin

THE future of a €35m flood relief scheme in Kilkenny City is in doubt following the discovery of a cancer-causing toxin in silt removed from the river bed in the past few weeks.

Tue, 11 Feb, 2003

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