Elaine Edwards

Elaine Edwards

Elaine Edwards has been an Irish Times journalist since 2003.

Chief executive of the Pensions Board Brendan Kennedy, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton TD and chairperson of the Pensions Board Jane Williams at the publication of the Pensions Board Annual Report and Accounts for 2012
Burton declines to rule out further levy on pensions

Pensions Board chief says it is clear a number of schemes will close down

A meeting between Department of Education officials and the social networking site Facebook was described as ’positive and constructive’. Photograph: Martin Keene/PA Wire
Facebook and Department of Education meet over ‘cyberbullying’ issue

Social media site and school principals to work together to address concerns over online behaviour

Limerick had a suicide rate 26.6 per 100,000 people. The national average was 11 per 100,000
Official suicide figures reveal ‘alarming’ regional picture

Central Statistics Office says 507 people took their own lives in 2012, down slightly on 2011

There were 72,225 births registered in 2012.
Decline in number of babies born to teens welcomed

CSO figures show 1,639 births to women under 20 during 2012

Gardaí investigate alleged intimidation of council official

Person set up websites and sent racist emails in official’s name after being denied housing

Anyone who owns a second home faces a bill for the €200 tax on non-principal private residences by the end of June. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Tax of €200 due on second homes by end of June

Some €17.8 million collected by local authorities to date for 2013 charge

Director of Corporate Enforcement Ian Drennan: His office issued 198 notices last year to 79 liquidators advising them that they were in default of their statutory reporting obligations. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Behaviour of liquidators to come under greater scrutiny by corporate watchdog

ODCE warns of possible prosecutions over breaches of statutory reporting obligations

The former headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times
Work related to Anglo inquiry likely to be ’significant and continuing’ - ODCE

Corporate enforcement watchdog will continue to assist DPP following charges against former executives

02/08/2011 News The scene at the Players Lounge pub Fairview Dublin which was damaged by fire . Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / THE IRISH TIMES
Gardaí initiative to target speeding on roads

’Operation Slow Down’ to form part of intensive road traffic enforcement during June

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Galleries

A firefighter tries to put out a fire at a plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province, Indonesia. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control peatland fires, Antara News Agency reported. The fires are being blamed for dense smog in neighbouring Singapore. Photograph: Aswaddy Hamid/Reuters Singaporean smog and Indonesian fires
This is Nanoweek 2013, and to mark it an exhibition, NanoArt 13, of 100 ‘nanolandscapes’ (research images, at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt) is being held at Trinity College Dublin, the Tryskell Arts Centre in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute at UCC. Here is a selection of the images. Above, 'Insect egg on a Leaf' by Patrick Carolan, Tyndall National Institute. Insect egg on underside of leaf. Stuff you never get to see

Blogs

Russell Brand makes mince meat of MSNBC

Watch the comedian (through your fingers, if you must) tear the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC apart.
Y-Day: Kanye West’s trip from “College Dropout” to “Yeezus”

The rapper you might love to hate is still producing gems
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