03 December, 2014 Digital News Archive

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Irish founded payments start-up Stripe now valued at $3.5 billion

By Pamela Newenham

Netanyahu dismisses ministers as Israel goes to election

By Mark Weiss

Why Junior Cert reform is best for students’ education

By Dr Tom Collins

Sierra Leoneans contract Ebola as they are not assisted in giving relatives safe burials

By Pieternella Pieterse

Martyn Turner

By Martyn Turner

No apology over NFL players' Darren Wilson protest

By Simon Carswell

Sally Rowlette ‘lost the opportunity of having a life'

By Marese McDonagh

Woman tells Bailey civil action she saw stranger on road

By Mary Carolan

HSE can’t afford urgently needed changes to ambulance service

By Paul Cullen

Diesel v hybrid cars: which goes further?

By Donal Byrne

Stage

Pat Kinevane’s singular vision from the brink of the world

By Peter Crawley

Teacher unions prepare for second strike date in January

By Joe Humphreys

Fashion

Wardrobing: The secret to looking good in leopard print

By Sarah Waldron

Must do better

Four-star Fitzwilton Hotel purchased for €3.2 million

By Jack Fagan

Goldman Sachs and CarVal buy €2bn Irish portfolio from Lloyds

By Ciarán Hancock

Crime & Law

Ian Bailey case: at a glance

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Minister for the Environment says funding for non-Gaeltacht islands being discussed

By Michael O'Regan

Africa

Kenyatta replaces security chiefs after al-Shabaab kill 36

By Edmund Blair and Edith Honan

Markets

Rises amid oil bounce and stimulus talk

By Barry O'Halloran

Racing

Black Hercules in line for early test over three miles at Cork

By Brian O'Connor

Fashion

Celestine Cooney’s fashion for ‘strong, intelligent girls’

By Sarah Waldron

Shops gain from ‘Teacher Tuesday’ but will students?

By Joe Humphreys

Autonomy founder to take HP claim to regulators

Corporate HQ in Blanchardstown on letting market

By Jack Fagan

Yes Minister: ‘This is an opportunity that we cannot allow pass us by as educators’

Running for cover from car insurance

By Neil Briscoe

Teachers strike reaction: ‘We’re trying to protect the integrity of the Junior Cert’

By Ciaran D'arcy and Olivia Kelleher

Patrick O’Brien resigns as Liberty Insurance chief executive

By Ciarán Hancock

Buyers sought for offices in Merrion Square and Aungier Street

By Jack Fagan

Gaelic Games

Kilcormac/Killoughey relish chance to defy expectations

By Ian O'Riordan

A death in Dublin

Mike Ross: Ireland tighthead offered new one-year contract

By Gavin Cummiskey

HSE could start 2015 with €85m deficit, Fianna Fail claims

By Marie O’Halloran

More than 160 people sleep ‘rough ’ in shadow of Leinster House’

By Marie O’Halloran

Taoiseach says housing the homeless not just a question of money

By Michael O'Regan

Last word on the cross on Carrauntoohil

Fashion

On Beauty: There’s nothing wrong with luxury when it comes to Christmas gifts

By Aisling McDermott

Music

Vanbrugh Quartet sound liberated in their post-RTÉ existence

By Michael Dervan

Minimum alcohol pricing planned for the North

By Gerry Moriarty

Seán Dunne loses his US battle but the war continues

By Simon Carswell

Media

The business of selling a client’s one clear message more effectively

By Erin McGuire

Colum Kenny on writing An Irish-American Odyssey

By Colum Kenny

Jack McGrath’s progress in the Autumn Internationals mirrors that of Ireland

By Gavin Cummiskey

Mortgage plan difficult for first-time buyers - report

By Fiach Kelly

Fiat wants next-gen Bravo to be a Turkish delight

By Neil Briscoe

Starbucks makes over guide

By Jack Fagan

Tesco chief hopes every little helps as he shakes up management

By Fiona Walsh

Frank McNally on gold-digging, rebellion, and working your way around Australia

By Frank McNally

Workable global corporate tax solution is vital to modern business

By Colm Keena

First Drive: Citroën C1 brings a strange sense of deja vu

By Neil Briscoe

Two Blessington shops at knockdown price

By Jack Fagan

National Competitiveness Council in wind power warning

By Mark Paul

Yahoo’s Dublin operations begin to supersize

By Mark Paul

Four players sign new deals with Munster and IRFU

By Gerry Thornley

Jules Thomas denies inventing story of how she and Ian Bailey knew victim was French

By Barry Roche

Racing

Harrington makes rare Huntingdon foray with Rock On The Moor

By Brian O'Connor

Widow of Brian Lenihan snr demands dossier alleging he had off-shore account

By Tom Lyons

Gardaí defend response to discovery of body of homeless man

By Tim O'Brien

Homeless man Jonathan Corrie was offered shelter, Dublin agency claims

By Fiach Kelly

The re-invention of dublin

Impact of oil low and price at the pumps

Male support of White Ribbon campaign

Hiqa says ambulance service can improve with existing resources

By Paul Cullen

Research on chaplains in World War II

Yacht owners and green diesel

Politicians and their pensions

No monument to climb in Dublin

Meon na ndaoine i leith fadhbanna intinne ag athrú

By Katie McGreal

McGettigan group buys €4m Maldron Citywest

By Jack Fagan

Stiofán – laoch ar lár

By Alan Titley

Former megastore bought for €9m

By Jack Fagan

Gliomach Gaelach

By Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh

Bernard McNamara’s former HQ for €3.5m

By Jack Fagan

Ceiliúradh na n-ealaíon thoir agus thiar

Only ECB can help cut mortgages, but don’t bank on it

By Ciarán Hancock

Miriam Lord: The scene of this man’s death seems more shocking than the manner of it

By Miriam Lord

Catholic Housing Aid Society denies rent dispute delaying occupation of complex

By Olivia Kelly

Central Bank to give banking inquiry secret information

By Stephen Collins

Obama calls on US Congress to pass emergency Ebola funding

World

Amazon forests at risk from both legal and illegal activities

By Frank McDonald

Abroad

#AmhrándoPhádraig: Fundraiser for friend injured abroad

By Maitiú O Casaide

Gaelic Games

Sporting Advent Calendar #3: Rebel yell, Cork women come back to deny Dublin

By Malachy Clerkin

Irish services sector keeps up robust pace of growth

Government asks European court to revise ‘Hooded Men’ ruling

Calypso Technology to create up to 150 jobs in Dublin

By Pamela Newenham

Life & Style

All I want for Christmas: Niamh O’Neill

By Emma Somers

Married to Alzheimer’s: Slowly but perceptively, Alzheimer’s is stealing those moments we used to share

By Steph Booth

Candle-lit vigil held to remember Jonathan Corrie

By Ronan McGreevy

Donncha O’Callaghan considers appeal ahead of Clermont match

By Gerry Thornley

The Morning Sports Briefing

By Patrick Madden

Gold exploration group Dalradian lists on London’s AIM

By Francess McDonnell

Robbie Henshaw set to to return for Connacht in Pro12 clash with Leinster

By Keith Duggan

Rehab withdraws €1.5bn claim against State over lottery

By Arthur Beesley

Kalashnikov rifles rebranded as ‘weapon of peace’

Australian economy slows as GDP rises by just 0.3%

Australia captain Clarke leads tributes at Phillip Hughes funeral

Asia-Pacific

Funeral of cricketer Phillip Hughes takes place in Australia

Apple patents technology to make devices drop-proof

Low-risk pregnant women encouraged to give birth at home

Gaelic Games

Seán Moran: GAA’s growth in US shows how clubs should be focus of reform

By Seán Moran

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong Occupy Central leaders surrend to police

Ireland improves to 17 out of 175 countries on corruption index

By Charlie Taylor

Wayne Rooney to undergo scan on knee

Government asks European court to revise ‘Hooded Men’ ruling

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Euro zone economy looks set to contract in new year - PMI

Euro hits 27-month low versus dollar on ECB easing bets

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke by David Bromwich

By Luke Gibbons

Stunt or significant gesture? Taoiseach’s visit to Pantibar

By Pamela Duncan

Five tips for pitching your start-up

By Erin McGuire

Committee will not identify alleged tax evaders in hearing with Revenue

By Martin Wall

Asthma Society says smoky coal ban ‘would save 2,000 lives’

By Paul Cullen

Dublin ranked 27th most reputable city in the world

By Charlie Taylor

Golf

Tiger Woods back and fit to play after four months

A silent scene as men try to lift homeless man found dead in doorway near Dáil

By Kate Holmquist

H&M poised to open Dublin flagship store

By Jack Fagan

‘Little progress’ in maternity sector despite Halappanavar

By Paul Cullen

Death of a homeless man, John Corrie

Teachers on strike and Junior Cycle reform

History

Don’t mention the War - 1916 video fails to mention Rising

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

Tánaiste wants the Dublin bedsit ban reviewed

By Pamela Duncan

Minister for Finance does not rule out repaying IBRC junior bondholders

By Marie O’Halloran

Irish consumer sentiment holds steady in November

By Pamela Newenham

Munster look to add underachieving Clermont to their Thomond Park hit list

By Alan Quinlan

Second Opinion: Surrogacy laws must put children first

By Jacky Jones

Abroad

‘It took only one call to make me feel so far away’

By Sonia Bradley

Childhood classics and teenage page-turners

By Robert Dunbar

Volvo Ocean Race: Calm after the storm leaves ‘Azzam ’sweltering in the slow lane

By Justin Slattery

Unemployment falls to post-recessionary low of 10.7%

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Lorca’s grave may be uncovered 78 years after execution

By Guy Hedgecoe

Left, right – what do labels matter when a homeless man dies on a freezing night?

By Kathy Sheridan

Historians to give lecture on 1922 Dunmanway killings

By Barry Roche

Number of mortgages in arrears for over 90 days still falling

By Charlie Taylor

Israel agrees on March 17th election, says radio station

‘Why can’t we speak Irish?’

By Pól Ó Muirí

Crime & Law

‘The missing are never forgotten’, says Garda Commissioner

By Mary Minihan

Emile Heskey training with Bolton Wanderers

Jonathan Corrie was ‘a bright young man who got caught up in drugs’

By Kitty Holland

Mary Lou McDonald names ex-politicians who whistleblower claims had offshore accounts

By Michael O'Regan

UK deficit to fall this year by less than forecast

Element Six to create 40 new jobs in Shannon

By Charlie Taylor

‘Fear factor’ in Dublin due to aggressive begging

By Steven Carroll

Tommy Bowe eyes difficult route through coming European Champions Cup tests

By Johnny Watterson

Retailer Abercrombie’s profit falls on bigger discounts

Jonathan Corrie: ‘Most of my life I’ve been homeless’

By Kitty Holland

‘Hooded Men’ case will not damage relations with Britain

By Mary Minihan

Transport

GuestLogix to acquire Dublin-based OpenJaw for $41.2m

By Pamela Newenham

Britain pledges to devolve corporation tax to North

By Charlie Taylor

Five former politicians deny offshore claims

By Steven Carroll and Fiach Kelly

Steven Gerrard refused to be drawn on new contract

257 applications for symphysiotomy scheme

By Paul Cullen

Petit cites Ireland handball as reason for French Henry apathy

TDs and Senators investigate ‘fuel stretching’

By Tim O'Brien

Care assistant who stole from intellectually disabled clients avoids jail

By Sonya McLean

Science

2014 likely to go down in history as the hottest year on record

By Dick Ahlstrom

Music

U2 to play at least one Dublin gig next year as part of new tour

By Ronan McGreevy

Hearts demand immediate action from Celtic after sectarian violence

Dublin men who ‘stomped’ on head of victim both get suspended jail sentence

By Sonya McLean

Anthony Foley wants new Peter O’Mahony deal done

Women under-represented in senior university posts HEA finds

By Pamela Duncan

100 brains missing from Texas university

By Zara Zhuang

Lionel Messi yellow card appeal rejected despite bottle throwing incident

Hozier’s secret: no way to get under our skin

By Anthea McTeirnan

Hidden Kerry – uncovered

By Breda Joy

Owen Coyle reveals ‘blazing arguments’ with FA charged Dave Whelan

What’s the Big Idea? It’s time for the State to consider a real democracy

By Fintan O’Toole

Manchester United return to top of highest payers in Premier League

Ladyboys and Leitrim: too close for comfort

Work

How to deal with an ineffective boss

By Vineet Nayar

Jose Mourinho vows promise of unbeaten season won’t stop attacking play

By Dominic Fifield

Timeline: Tax evasion dossier

By Steven Carroll

Life & Style

Video: turkey producers prepare for biggest day of year

By Alison Healy

Inquest hears three family members died from asbestos-related cancer

Opel wants us to meet Karl, its new compact city car

By Neil Briscoe

Music

Saxon’s wheels of steel keep on rolling

By Ronan McGreevy

West and Russia step up diplomatic efforts over Ukraine

By Daniel McLaughlin

Racing

RACING: Annie Power lined up for Cheltenham after minor injury revealed

Stephen Hawking’s warning on end of the human race is wrong

By Dick Ahlstrom

DUP, UUP flags pamphlet ‘catalytic’ in fanning loyalist fury

By Gerry Moriarty

Life expectancy growing faster in Ireland than in rest of Europe

By Paul Cullen

Bill Cosby accused of molesting teenager at Playboy Mansion

By Simon Carswell

Sinn Féin picks and chooses approach to whistleblowers

By Fiach Kelly

Science

Fracking estimates for gas may be too optimistic, research finds

By Dick Ahlstrom

Fitzgerald plans to publish report into Fr Niall Molloy death

By Mary Minihan

Pat Rabbitte rejects Fintan O’Toole criticism

By Declan Conlon

Golf

Pádraig Harrington chases success in Indonesia

Golf

Martin Kaymer stands in front of Shane Lowry’s Sun City hopes

Funeral held of woman hailed as a hero in Germany

Reports find Jules Bianchi did not ‘slow sufficiently’ before crash

Anger pervades Egypt at Mubarak’s apparent escape from justice

By Michael Jansen

Family locked out of rented home by sheriff allowed to return

By Aine McMahon

Homelessness not all about addictions, says Michael McGrath

By Michael O'Regan

Fintan O’Toole responds to Pat Rabbitte and Jan O’Sullivan’s criticism

By Fintan O’Toole

Sonia O’Sullivan ponders the medals lost as a result of doping in athletics

By Ian O'Riordan

Sweden faces snap election after budget fails

By Derek Scally

Hundreds of waiver requests made each year for weapons to come through Shannon

By Mark Hilliard

Liverpool respond to fans’ no-flag protests over rising ticket prices

By Eamon Donoghue

Court hears neighbour offered €20,000 to settle hedge dispute

Judge dismisses 17 speeding cases linked to Go Safe

By Patsy McArdle

Woman says Garda wanted to trick Bailey into confession

By Mary Carolan

NI house hunters cheer Osborne’s stamp duty cuts

By Francess McDonnell

Russia accused of doping cover-up in athletics

By Philip Oltermann

Property developer denies lawsuit inspired by newspaper article

By Alan Erwin

Harney says O’Malley not factor in calling halt to inquiry

By Fiach Kelly and Martin Wall

Everton held by Hull after leading through Romelu Lukaku

By Andy Hunter at Goodison Park

Arsenal strike late through Alexis Sanchez to beat Southampton

By David Hytner at Emirates Stadium

2002 inquiry found 200 with secret Ansbacher accounts

By Martin Wall

Manchester City reaching top gear as title race gets interesting

By Louise Taylor

Didier Drogba wounds Tottenham as Chelsea roll on

By Daniel Taylor at Stamford Bridge

Alan Kelly defends €100m increase in estimated cost of water meters

By Michael O'Regan

Iraq says woman detained in Lebanon is not Baghdadi wife

Apparent Iran strikes on Islamic State ‘positive’ - John Kerry

Steven Gerrard urged to stay at Liverpool by his team-mates

By Andy Hunter

Osborne warns multinationals over UK tax avoidance

By Mark Hennessy

Osborne’s NI corporation tax offer has ‘raised the stakes’

By Gerry Moriarty

Business in Republic confident in face of mooted NI tax reduction

By Arthur Beesley

Analysis: Osborne’s tax move creates knotty questions south of the Border

By Arthur Beesley

No indictment for officer in Eric Garner chokehold death