Organisation: Travers

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Proposals on junior cycle reform agreed

A potential breakthrough in the long-running teachers’ dispute over junior cycle reforms will be considered by union leaders tomorrow.

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Union ban on teacher training under fire

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Call for suspension of junior cycle teacher training rejected

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Seeking a sensible end to the impasse on Junior Cert reform

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Thomas raises Barr as Travers seals Euro ticket

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Suburban house has class past history

Travers wants Antrim to join Leinster Championship

BOTH ANTRIM and Leinster would benefit by the Ulster side’s inclusion in the eastern province’s championship, according to Wexford defender Malachy Travers.

Fri, 29 Feb, 2008

Wexford can tame Cats again, insists Travers

THREE years have passed since Wexford consigned Kilkenny to their only Leinster SHC defeat of the last decade and defender Malachy Travers admits his county have failed to live up to the promise of that performance.

Thu, 28 Jun, 2007

Rabbitte in vicious attack on Martin

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin, asserting he “lied” over the nursing home charges scandal.

Tue, 23 Aug, 2005

Oireachtas health report provokes hectic scenes at press conference

There were extraordinary scenes at today's press conference for the publication of the Oireachtas Committee on Health report into the Travers inquiry on nursing home charges.

Thu, 09 Jun, 2005

Top civil servants call for decentralisation advice service

TOP civil servants, responsible for implementing the Government’s decentralisation plan, yesterday called for an advice service for families affected.

Sat, 07 May, 2005

Civil servants call for role of special advisers to be clarified

Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter

Fri, 06 May, 2005

Highly paid ministerial advisers capable of ‘exceptional’ lapses

THERE are not too many bosses who would pay the staff more than themselves, but then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is a rare one. In more senses than one.

Fri, 29 Apr, 2005

Civil servant angered by treatment over fees scandal

A former top civil servant in the Health Department today hit back at how he was treated in the illegal nursing homes charges affair.

Wed, 20 Apr, 2005

Callely challenged to break his silence on Travers report

FORMER Junior Health Minister Ivor Callely was last night challenged to break his silence on the Travers report into illegal nursing home charges.

Fri, 18 Mar, 2005

Questions raised over Martin care charge denial

FORMER Health Minister Micheál Martin’s denial that he knew of the scale of the nursing home charges crisis was challenged last night as further questions were raised over the extent of his knowledge.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2005

Martin debt to Fawlty Towers

A COLLEAGUE watched Pat Rabbitte in the Dáil this week unleash his formidable verbal armoury in the direction of the Government benches.

Sat, 12 Mar, 2005

Travers Report - Scandal puts spotlight on the system

FORMER Health Minister Micheál Martin may very well feel rather self-satisfied that the Travers Report has exonerated him of any blame in relation to the nursing homes debacle, but it is an episode that sits uneasily with people.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2005

Martin holds firm in face of resignation calls

FORMER Health Minister Mícheál Martin yesterday stood firm amid a flurry of calls for his resignation as the Travers report was debated in the Dáil.

Fri, 11 Mar, 2005

Junior ministers made aware of charges issue ‘urgency’

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S two junior ministers were made aware of the “urgency” surrounding the nursing home charges issue a full year before it erupted in controversy last December.

Thu, 10 Mar, 2005

Department ‘knew of legal concerns’

THE Department of Health was “well aware” since 1976 of the legal concerns surrounding long-stay charges but systematically failed to address the issue, the Travers Report has found.

Thu, 10 Mar, 2005

FG call for Martin resignation after Travers publication

Fine Gael has called for the resignation of Minister Micheál Martin in the wake of the publication of the Travers Report into the illegal charging of nursing home patients.

Wed, 09 Mar, 2005

Travers Report to be published today

The Travers Report into how the Department of Health allowed nursing home fees to be levied on medical card holders is due to be published today.

Tue, 08 Mar, 2005