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Internet TV will not need licence
INTERNET AND mobile television services will not require a television licence once the new Broadcasting Bill is enacted, Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan said yesterday.
The Broadcasting Bill 2008 is currently before the Dáil but Mr Ryan said mobile devices and internet services such as YouTube would be exempted from the requirement for a licence. Mobile phones, PCs with a broadband connection and laptops with TV cards will be covered by the exemption.
Bombing victims remembered
Relatives of the 34 victims of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings were remembered yesterday at a wreath-laying ceremony in Dublin’s Talbot Street.
A Mass was also held in the Pro-Cathedral to mark the 35th anniversary of the attacks which occurred on May 17th, 1974.
Passenger rescued
A passenger has been rescued from the sea after he went overboard from the Larne-Troon high-speed ferry late on Sunday.
The PO ferry turned about and launched its own small rescue boat.
Yates on Newstalk
The former Fine Gael cabinet minister Ivan Yates will broadcast his first programme this morning as a presenter on Newstalk’s breakfast show.
Yates will co-anchor Newstalk’s flagship programme with Claire Byrne.
School schemes to merge
The decision by the Department of Education to establish a new, single co-ordinated School Support Programme from next September has been welcomed by the Irish Primary Principals' Network, writes Seán Flynn.
The plan will merge the Home School Community Liaison Scheme, the School Completion Programme and the Visiting Teachers Service for Travellers under a single management agency, the National Education Welfare Board.
Compulsory land registration
Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has announced that land must be compulsorily registered in 12 more counties, bringing the total to 24, writes Carol Coulter.
The counties are Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary and Waterford. This means that only counties Dublin and Cork will remain outside the compulsory registration system after January 1st, 2010.
Mr Ahern said this, combined with the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill, which is to be enacted in the current Dáil session, would reduce registration delays and the associated costs for the benefit of consumers, and pave the way for the electronic conveyancing of land.
Call to artists to compete
The Northern Ireland Arts Council has urged artists to compete for a London Olympics commission worth £190,000. Artists had just two weeks left to enter the competition which is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and linked to the Olympics.
Shell to Sea protester jailed
Shell-to-Sea protester Maura Harrington has been sentenced to 28 days in jail for non-payment of fines arising out of her conviction for assaulting a Garda.
Harrington, a former school principal from Tullaghanbawn, Geeala, Co Mayo, has already served 30 days for her assault on Garda Eamon Berry in June 2007.