Week in Review
Main Stories From Tuesday, May 15, 2012
- Greek worries trigger FTSE shares slide
- Greek poll plan derails markets
- Facebook increases share price
- Musgrave reveals fall in profit despite sales increase
- Eurozone economy avoids recession
- Eircom wins five-year AIB contract
- Moody's slashes Italian banks' credit ratings
- Osborne: Greece speculation 'extremely unhelpful'
- Man files papers to dismiss charges against Travolta
- Cruise and Downey Jr consider political comedy movie
- Indonesia stops Lady Gaga from performing
- One D to headline show at iTunes Festival in London
- Walsh: 'The Voice' UK 'not great TV'
- Lopez wants to adopt
- Black Eyed Peas star linked with NASA mission
- 'EastEnders' favourite may leave soap
- Britney 'doesn't have enough experience' for American Idol role
- Mother intervenes in Rihanna's party lifestyle
- Judge rules against Coleman ex-wife
- Video game maker sues Beyonce for $100m
- Lady Gaga may cancel concert in Indonesia
- RTÉ responds to statements made by Gallagher
- Ryanair demands explanation for Dublin Airport's security failure
- Ireland close to Europe bank funds
- Gardaí: Kerry fire deaths not being treated as suspicious
- Former garda to be sentenced later for theft and fraud
- Gallagher decries RTÉ 'arrogance' over Tweetgate
- Commission: General Election is only means of delaying referendum
- Former Eircom director jailed for €1.4m fraud
- Sinn Féin calls for investment plan
- Jury finds Wicklow man guilty of baby's manslaughter
- Taoiseach formally declines TV debate with Adams
- Central Bank report shows continuing fall in level of household debt
- DAA knew of security failing for a month
- Gardaí probe shooting report in Kildare
- Research shows minimum pricing 'can reduce alcohol consumption'
- Tánaiste: People have chance to vote 'for stability'
- DAA 'may take two months' to sort security problem at airport
- Up to 25 children contract measles in west Cork
- ULA: 'Yes' vote would mean 'permanent austerity'
- USI sets up poll on higher education funding
- Army disposes of 'viable device' at Fermanagh airport
- Obama pays tribute to Robbie Keane
- McDaid helps secure victory for Derry
- Dalglish meeting over with outcome unclear
- United accept City's Tevez apology
- Cahill red card appeal fails
- Allardyce 'to sue Kean'
- Tough draw for Clarke
- McLaughlin names strong squad for European decider
- FAI confirm interest in jointly hosting Euro 2020
- Del Bosque calls up De Gea to Spain squad
- Waterford lose O'Sullivan for hurling championship
- Taylor through to quarter-finals
- Ireland formally joins in bid to host Euro 2020
- Hickey to miss Tipp clash; Hannon a doubt
- Mancini: Balotelli staying at City
- Corbett will not be rushed back
- Scotland and Wales may include Ireland in Euro 2020 bid
- Owners await answers from Dalglish
- Taylor continues quest to win World Championship
- Barton faces lengthy ban
- McLaren reach out to Williams
- City sorry for Tevez Fergie jibe
- Hollande and Merkel: EU will be there for Greece
- Obama welcomes Beckham and team-mates at White House
- Greek stalement shakes markets
- Angry Brooks hits out over charges
- Lightning strike delays Hollande-Merkel meeting
- Breivik trial fire man 'mentally ill'
- Greece to go to the polls again as president confirms talks failure
- Strauss-Kahn sues maid for $1m
- Leveson defends his media enquiry
- Man sets himself ablaze outside Breivik trial
- Brooks brands charge decision 'weak and unjust'
- Mladic loses bid to delay trial
- President to meet leaders of five of Greece's parties
- Hollande becomes French president
- Rebekah Brooks to be charged
- France to swear in Hollande
- Ugandan forces training for Somalia
- US state rejects civil union law
- Obama chooses jobs as battleground
- Juncker: Greece must stick with terms of bailout
Main Stories From Monday, May 14, 2012
- Greek crisis send stocks plunging
- Greek impasse triggers world market falls
- World markets down on Greek instability
- JPMorgan executive quits over loss
- Eurozone crisis and Greek deadlock lead to fall in price of euro
- Decline in construction sector increases
- Yahoo's 'bogus degree' boss quits
- Jackson’s clothes to go on tour
- Lovato set to join US ' X Factor' panel
- 'BGT' winner Ashleigh aiming for Hollywood stardom
- Kutcher set for second series of 'Men'
- Madness frontman reveals most embarrassing career 'move'
- Girls Aloud recording new material
- Blur announce pre-Olympics tour
- Moore signs up for 'Carrie' remake
- Transgender model willing to drop assault charge against Kardashian
- Coronas 'would love to work with Prince'
- Ronson had 'pretty wild' sleepovers with Jackson
- Bass player Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies
- Peaches tells of childbirth drama
- Noonan: Eurozone must remain intact
- Taxi drivers warned over extra lights
- Chinese man to be sentenced later for rape of Irish student
- Plans approved for €500m DIT campus
- Burton defends rehiring of retired public servants
- Taoiseach standing firm on fiscal treaty
- Ganley compares fiscal treaty to Titanic
- Jury in infant death trial begins deliberations
- Call to postpone fiscal treaty vote
- Calls for HSE English language fluency standards
- New private health insurance firm to create 100 jobs
- Burton: 'No' vote would remove back-up of ESM fund
- Number of retired public servants re-hired 'not huge', says Hayes
- PSNI arrest three in dissidents probe
- Hayes: Fiscal Treaty 'not linked' to Irish bank debt
- Dublin City Council remove bins over illegal dumping
- Lotto winners leave €90m unclaimed in five years
- Last day to apply for supplementary register inclusion
- Phoenix Park site 'could save €210m' in Children's Hospital costs
- City apologise to Ferguson
- Tevez banner mocks Ferguson
- Scholes staying on
- Mancini relives season finale
- O’Driscoll: This is not the end of an era for Munster
- Barton charged with violent conduct
- Everton to appeal Cahill red card
- Villa sack McLeish
- Di Matteo considers Drogba-Torres pairing
- O'Shea to link up with squad as scheduled
- Mancini eyes strong Champions League bid
- Neville handed England coaching role
- Hughes to decide on Barton club punishment
- Ligament damage ends O’Malley’s season
- Aviva Stadium to host European double header in 2013
- Evra backs Fergie to lift United
- Van Nistelrooy quits football
- Taylor gets off to winning start in Beijing
- Meyler quits Kerry role
- City legend: Title success 'stressful'
- Barton denies ban ploy
- How the last-day drama turned out
- Fergie: Players will bounce back
- A month-by-month guide to the Premier League title race
- Leitrim race walker Griffin qualifies for Olympics
- McLeish set for Villa talks
- Taylor to start World championship campaign
- Investigation launched into Williams garage fire
- Mancini targets more glory
- Kuchar victorious at Sawgrass
- EU insists on Greek austerity plans
- Fatal fire 'started deliberately'
- Brooks faces charges decision
- Palestinian hunger strikes end
- No end in sight to Greek political stalemate
- Merkel shrugs off election setback
- Fifteen killed in Nepal plane crash
- EU imposes new sanctions on Syria
- Leader of Democratic Left party delivers new blow to Greek talks
- Dalai Lama claims China tried to poison him
- Scotland to set minuimum price for alcohol
- Sixth child dies after UK house fire
- Headless bodies dumped on Mexican highway
- Nine feared dead in Nepal plane crash
- EU Finance Ministers to discuss Spanish banking crisis
- Greek President to hold last-ditch talks to avert second election
Main Stories From Sunday, May 13, 2012
- Co-op deal to buy Lloyd's branches
- 11 arrested in Occupy London protest
- Morrison gushes over 'beautiful' Cheryl
- Walsh: Girls Aloud's 10 years 'a huge achievement'
- Career dip pushed McConaughey into rom coms
- Pudsey silences The Voice in ratings battle
- Ashleigh and Pudsey wake up as BGT winners
- Police at scene of north Belfast shooting
- Lorry driver killed in Cavan crash
- Ex-IMF deputy director: No way IMF would fund Ireland separately
- Anglo-Irish talks to focus on trade
- €330,000 of drugs seized at Dublin Port
- Ganley launches no campaign
- Quinn defends re-hiring of retired teachers
- Controlled explosion on car abandoned in Co Down
- Man arrested after Waterford cannabis haul
- Govt 're-hires dozens of retired civil servants'
- New poll shows 6% increase in support for Fiscal Treaty
- Corbett back with Tipperary
- Mancini hails 'crazy, incredible' finish
- Incredible City season ends with nail-biting win
- Late drama ends 44-year title wait for City
- Champions League spot for Gunners after win over West Brom
- United hearts broken as title snatched from hands, despite win
- Early goals seal win for Chelsea
- Heart-stopping Premier League win for Man City
- City win Premier league in last-gasp thriller
- Weld's Famous Name wins in Leopardstown
- Spanish GP winner Maldonado: 'It's a wonderful day'
- All eyes on City for title decider
- Maldonado wins Spanish GP for Williams
- Hooper nets five as Hoops finish season in style
- Alonso leads at home Grand Prix
- Fairy on comeback trail
- Fowler rockets up leaderboard in Sawgrass
- 42 die in Yemen as troops battle militants
- Left-wing leader: Deal has been brokered for Greek govt
- Dozens of bodies dumped onto Mexico motorway
- Injured boy 'unlikely to survive' after fire killed five siblings
- Spanish PM defends cuts agenda
- Four killed in Iraq blasts
- Crunch Greek govt talks end
- Stop moaning, work harder, Hague tells bosses
- Spaniards flood onto streets in protest at state of economy
- Greece: President in last ditch unity effort
Main Stories From Saturday, May 12, 2012
- Up to 200 jobs available at Dublin jobs expo
- Singer risks axe from BBC show after 'snubbing' controller
- Houston family plans own reality show
- Tardy Aguilera fined on 'Voice' set
- Lopez looks for permission to take kids on tour
- Spears denies signing for US X Factor
- Simpson sells first daughter pics for $800,000 - report
- Drug trafficker for forced to give up 'Passion' prequel stake
- Glee's Morrison wants to ditch image with serial-killer role
- Two arrested in alleged Stevie Wonder 'blackmail' case
- Murphy: Decline in Govt support suggests support for treaty can fall
- SBP poll shows rise in support for Fiscal Treaty
- Gardaí name victims of Tralee house fire
- PSNI make fifth arrest in dissident investigation
- Tánaiste: Greek situation 'a clear picture' of Ireland after 'No' vote
- Gardaí seeking witnesses to Cavan bank robbery
- Carlow garda arrest man after cannabis-plants find
- Clare towns urged to sign up for local-improvements scheme
- Tralee community 'so devastated' after fire kills father and daughter
- Four dissident suspects held in North
- Numbers seeking help from suicide prevention group almost double
- Man due in court after Kilkenny drugs seizure
- Gardaí appeal for information after armed raid on Cavan bank
- Man and five-year-old daughter die in Kerry housefire
- Fowler roars into Sawgrass contention
- Leinster make it to third consecutive RaboDirect final
- Nicky Rackard Cup sees wins for Warwickshire, Donegal and Armagh
- Fergie has particular interest in German cup final
- Ten-man Crusaders claim Setanta Cup against Derry City
- Hamilton loses pole position
- Christy Ring Cup sees Wicklow and Down progress
- Monaghan Ladies claim sensational Division 1 title
- Lynch victorious in French Derby
- Final victory steers Mayo Ladies into Division 1
- Bit O' Red stretch lead at top after easy win over nine-man Hoops
- Sides must play final again after late Leitrim miss ensures draw
- UK deploys 'sonic weapon' for Olympics
- Solbakken gets Hodgson seal of approval
- Hamilton takes Spanish pole
- Top 10 Premier League stories of the season
- Vettel in hunt for pole
- Button: We've conquered our problems
- Oxx considers Guineas tilt with Takar
- McIlroy 'disappointed' at missed cut in Sawgrass
- Fergie: City win would be leap forward
- McLeish offers hope for Bent
- Americans take over at top
- Car racer Carroll Shelby dies aged 89
- Around 100,000 attend march against austerity in Spain
- Spaniards march against austerity
- Islamist group claims Damascus suicide bombings
- Occupy pitch tents outside Bank of England
- Romney backs marriage 'institution'
- Police release pair in Derby house fire investigation
- Nato troops killed in Afghanistan
- Eight people believed killed in latest round of Syrian violence
- St Paul's sees return of anti-capitalism protestors
- Spanish plan more protests over economy
- Egg for brekkie 'better than wheat for weight loss'
- No deal on coalition government in Greece
- Children's UK blaze deaths: Two questioned
- Woman remanded on charges of murdering baby son and daughter
- Israeli envoy to meet Abbas
- Militants behind deadly Damascus bombings
- Hudson sisters hope 'Lord will forgive' Balfour for murders
- Hudson in-law convicted of murder
Main Stories From Friday, May 11, 2012
- Panasonic losses spiral 10-fold to €4.2bn
- Eircom examiner completes assesments, rejects new 3 bid
- JP Morgan loses $2bn in six weeks
- Duchess dazzles at gala dinner
- Gaga music 'for five year olds', says Ditto
- UK boy band working on follow-up album
- New Aerosmith single 'almost finished'
- Travolta accuser 'got date of sexual assault wrong'
- Pitt 'fascinated with Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'
- 'Harry Potter' star takes up pole-dancing
- Rihanna 'wanted to punch somebody' during recording
- Wallace comeback to spark 'incredible' EastEnders episodes
- Beyonce faces $20m game lawsuit
- 'ITV to demand Cowell stay in US to entice Dannii back'
- First Batman comic sells for €656,000
- O'Shaughnessy to sing own tune for BGT final
- Top Gear wins international award
- Bejo: Winslet's style 'perfect'
- Depp denies Paradis split
- Longoria: The housewives all get along
- McGuinness: Bono's performance one of reasons I backed the band
- Izzard plans 27 'Mandela' marathons
- Gardaí search for armed gang following bank robbery
- Reilly: No pay cuts in HSE if productivity increases
- Taoiseach pleads for 'Gathering' support
- Reilly: Closed hospital beds to stay closed 'for some time'
- Govt working on new legislation after overturning of Northern Bank conviction
- Dublin man 'violently chopped and stabbed to death', court hears
- PSNI release woman held in connection with 'ferry baby'
- Taoiseach: EU uncertainty will not stop referendum
- Taoiseach rejects call to delay Fiscal Treaty ratification
- HIQA highlights poor hygiene standards at flu deaths nursing home
- Girl injured, grandmother dies in Cork car crash
- Begg: Govt must back Hollande to ensure EU growth strategy
- HIQA: Flu-hit nursing home 'had no procedure to detect infection'
- GP reveals the extent that State overpays for medicines
- Reilly: Health service reforms will bite this year
- Mixed welcome for Minister at nurses' conference
- O'Carroll confirms political ambitions
- Cunningham 'very,very happy' after convictions quashed
- Higgins: Irish people would be embraced after no vote
- EU downgrades growth forecast to 0.5%
- Woman killed in Cork crash
- IDA boss: No vote may affect investment
- Cunningham wins appeal against money-laundering convictions, retrial ordered
- Visitor ban at Waterford Regional Hospital
- Haughey's daughter hopes 'frenzy of hatred' against him will abate
- Pupils to remember Famine victims
- 30 families evacuated in Galway after WWII grenade found
- Nurses will do 'whatever is necessary' to protect pay
- Mitchell 'pleased' as FG exonerates her of wrong-doing after Mahon report
- Gardaí quiz man after Kilkenny drugs seizure
- Clarke saves penalty and salvages point for St. Pats
- Ospreys reach final with stunning victory
- IFA 'disappointed' with McClean
- Pardew wins manager of the season award
- McIlroy may miss cut after bogey-filled round
- Ireland gains first Olympic canoeing place for London
- Celtic boss unhappy over SFA naming of panel
- O'Neill urges McClean to stay out of debate
- Hughes: Revenge not on my mind
- Fergie ready for final day agony
- Late Jones injury for Munster
- Redknapp rubbishes Bale tale
- McClean 'didn't feel at home' playing for North
- Hunt departure was cost-cutting - Venky's
- Ferguson: Title bid kept City together
- City missing seven for trip to St Pat's
- Kearney and O’Driscoll to miss Glasgow clash
- Akeed Mofeed out of Derby
- Callaghan confident Bohs will get result against Drogheda
- Ferris voted Ulster’s Personality of the Year
- Solbakken appointed Wolves manager
- Smalling ruled out of Euro campaign
- Warriors make five changes for Leinster clash
- Wolves move for new boss Solbakken
- Weimann missing for Villa
- Carlow footballer Webb in seven-hour journey for broken-leg treatment
- Wenger targets Champions League
- Greek government talks fail
- Pentagon suspends military course that suggests 'obliterating' Mecca
- Brooks attacks 'gender-based' criticism
- Hopes fade for Greek coalition deal
- Scotland Yard announce Lawrence inquiry 'corruption' probe
- Islamist alliance crushed in Algeria polls
- Man gets magnetic implants to hold iPod
- Afghan gunman kills US soldier
- Hollande: French deficit 'worse than previously indicated'
- Govt crackdown leads to 25 injuries among protestors
- Brother of victim throws shoe at Breivik in court
- Tymoshenko given tiger cubs boost
- Woman arrested after UK fire kills five children
- Shoe protest disrupts Breivik trial
- Cameron 'sent commiserations to Brooks' after resignation
- Five children die in UK housefire
- Rebekah Brooks to lift lid on Cameron friendship
- No new money for Greece without reforms, warns Germany
- 'Spiderman' strikes again on France's tallest building
- Romney school pranks 'not anti-gay'
Main Stories From Thursday, May 10, 2012
- MEPs back regional airports plans
- Phone roaming charges to fall in summer
- Inflation drops in 12 months to end of April
- Roaming charges set to drop with new EU deal
- Sony suffers record annual loss
- National Irish Bank to get Danske Bank rebranding
- Aer Lingus to launch new Dublin-London service
- Galway animation firm sells pre-school series worldwide
- Poll shows most people expect Jedward to win Eurovision
- Travolta accuser wishes him 'happiness'
- Trio join 'Married and Cheating' cast
- Cohen withdraws from Tarantino flick
- Minogue talks about split from Smith
- 'EastEnders' loses six million viewers - report
- Brand to host MTV Movie Awards
- Clarkson blames X Factor 'juggernaut' for fewer Top Gear episodes
- Minogue may snub X Factor return for son's sake
- Cole 'to guest' on Rihanna's fashion show
- Village People 'cop' wins rights battle
- Celebs back Barack for pro-gay-marriage comments
- Lopez : More kids would be a blessing
- One winner of €2m Lotto jackpot
- Depp: 'Dark Shadows' a passion project
- Vidal Sassoon dies at 84
- Nurses and midwives warn Government against making cuts
- Sinn Fein: Taoiseach 'running scared'
- Mitchell exonerated by Fine Gael disciplinary committee
- Drivers 'should stop other motorists from smoking in front of kids'
- Taoiseach 'misses great opportunity to commit to same-sex equality'
- Browne offers to step aside to facilitate TV debate
- INMO: Move to cut allowances would 'breach Croke Park deal'
- Martin: Sinn Féin hypocrisy on Treaty debate astonishing
- Survey reveals fall in regular use of contraception
- Sulky racers face prosecution
- New child abuse legislation debated in Oireachtas
- Tánaiste: Funding more bailouts 'reasonable'
- PSNI: 'No baby with woman who fell off ferry'
- SF: Taoiseach must 'put aside petty differences' to debate treaty
- Rescue operation called off for baby reported missing in Belfast Lough
- Deputy Ming: Cannabis-based drug should be available to MS sufferers
- Department of Finance chief: We can't do our job with current resources
- Mater site best option for Children's Hospital: Casey
- IBRC lawyers call Quinn evidence 'incredible and fantastic'
- Sex education and contraceptive use improving - report
- Upheaval in Greece 'arouses' Boyd Barrett, says Gilmore
- Gilmore dismisses 'hidden trollies' claim
- New wave of Irish backpackers threatened with loss of Australian visas
- Aviva 'absolutely committed to Ireland'
- EU political upheaval adds to treaty instability: Murphy
- Kinsealy up for sale
- 'No way' separate IMF funding is available to Ireland, says economist
- More arrests planned after harness race on Cork-Mallow road
- Men found dead in Limerick apartment were twins
- Aviva cuts job losses by 410, announces 220 new jobs in Galway
- Search resumes for baby reported missing in Belfast Lough
- Aviva 'to reduce number of job losses, and may create Galway jobs'
- Mixed day for Engligh hopes
- Whyte agrees to transfer Rangers shares
- IBF to talk to Peterson over failed test
- Lescott: QPR are no pushovers
- Irish Open close to selling out
- Chelsea board reassures Di Matteo
- Takeover by Portsmouth fans 'possible'
- Venky’s refute suggestions of Rovers sale
- Bilic to leave Croatia job as Klasnic and Petric omitted
- Rice retirement paves way for Bould at Gunners
- Race against time for Seanie Johnston on Kildare option
- O’Gara benched for Rabo semi-final
- Injury forces Ulster's Danielli to retire
- Oxx keeps faith in Born to Sea
- Rangers administrators hold talks with bidders
- Hernandez to miss London 2012
- Khan shocked as Peterson fight cancelled
- Hughton coy on exit talk
- Carroll thanks Dalglish for support
- Wincanton, Yarmouth on, Goodwood off
- Spiderman strikes again…
- Al Qaida 'bomber' was British spy
- Police accused over Omagh bombing
- Pilot praised after emergency landing
- Hopes rise of Greece coalition deal
- Suicide bombers kill 55 in Damascus
- Obama video hits out at Romney on gay unions
- Russia 'foils Games terror bid'
- Knox slander trial postponed
- 50 killed in Damascus blasts
- Greeks open new coalition talks
- Ex-boyfriend to give £1,000 holiday away after break-up
- Indonesia: Bodies spotted at jet-crash site
- Merkel insists on austerity
- Gay community hails Obama pro-marriage stance
