MORNING BULLETIN: FG rejects middle-class budget bias claim; Angela Merkel wins fourth term
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Junior finance minister Patrick O’Donovan has rejected claims that Fine Gael’s budget plans are too focussed on middle-class voters key to the party’s future election success.
One in four teachers working for education and training boards (ETBs) are on the lowest pay scales, because their careers have only begun since 2011.
A group representing independent supermarkets has failed to block the development of a large new Lidl outlet in north Cork.
German chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged into parliament.
They may not show it, but fish have complex personalities, research suggests.
: Two DCU students have turned their solution to the time-consuming task of transcribing hours of interviews into a start-up business, attracting more than 4,000 users of the application in five months.
US president Donald Trump's criticism of American football players who kneel during the national anthem has sparked a mass increase in such protests around the NFL, as about 200 players sat, knelt or raised their fists in defiance.
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After suffering three days of ‘inhuman, dangerous and barbaric’ treatment, Easter Rising hero Thomas Ashe died in hospital, 100 years ago today.
At 75, Cork Folk Festival headliner Andy Irvine still gets a buzz out of touring and playing his music
Many women will know what it’s like to have their opinions and suggestions ignored, only for a man to repeat the very same thing and getting a round of applause. The English language was lacking a specific word that accurately describes this scenario – until now.
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