Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien is a correspondent with The Irish Times.

EU asked for help in battle of fluoridation

’Everytime we fill a kettle or mix up a baby’s bottle we are dosed with fluoride’- Pocock

The Main Terminal at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Alan Betson
Dublin Airport to close T1 car park for upgrade

Users to be redirected to existing red ‘express’ car park at the edge of the M1

Éamon Ó Cuív told the committee the essential problem was that everybody wanted the hills to be managed and to be available for recreation, but nobody wanted to pay for this
Hill farmer numbers in decline in Wicklow

Wicklow Uplands Council report warns of environmental degradation without farmers

Tom Murphy with his Ulysses Medal, awarded by UCD
UCD awards its top honour to Tom Murphy

Doctors of Literature conferred on Conor McPherson, Sinead Cusack among others

Workers protest at Emirates embassy

Domestic workers allege breaches of Irish labour laws

The new rules are intended to avoid discouraging breast-feeding
Photos of infants to be banned from baby formula packaging

European Parliament approves new rules on labelling of foods

Counterfeit clothing, shoes and DVDs are taken away from Harcourt Street after they were seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2008. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Customs officers to be allowed destroy 'fakes'

Pirated and counterfeit goods cost businesses more than €250 billion a year - MEPs claim

Unlike any other motorway in the State the M50 has the traffic volumes and the infrastructure to deploy new tolls comparatively quickly. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Potential new M50 tolls revealed today

Study on 'demand management’ was a condition of planning permission

The scene of today’s fatal crash on the N78 outside Athy, Co Kildare. Photograph: Michael O’Rourke
Two killed in Kildare crash as town prepares for festivities

Man in 20s and woman in 80s die, elderly man hospitalised, after car and motorcycle collide

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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

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James Gandolfini is dead

The bulky, charismatic American actor, star of The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 51
Pionneer of London GAA who wrote first draft of history

London will make history if they beat Leitrim in the Connacht SFC semi-final on Sunday. Monaghan man Packie Hughes was involved the first and last time they won a championship game in 1977

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