Ireland

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  5 mins ago

  Cork hospice pleads with motorists to stop 'rat-running' on their grounds

  Management at Marymount Hospice in Curraheen, Cork, say they had to divert motorists away from its most-used vehicular entrance off the Ballincollig bypass

• 15 mins ago
  

  Harland and Wolff shipyard should be renationalised, say unions

  Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith has been urged to facilitate ‘bridging’ support to help the unpaid workforce in Belfast.

• 52 mins ago
  

  Five schools to delay start of new term as mediation works are yet to be completed

  It has emerged that other schools, including in Portarlington in Co Laois and in Ratoath in Co Meath, face late delays in opening up for the new school year, joining Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin in Clonakilty in Co Cork, which has had to delay its re-opening for three days next week.

• 58 mins ago
  

  Public transport drivers threaten to withdraw services amid epidemic of antisocial behaviour

  Bus and rail workers have voted unanimously to walk off the job in the face of escalating antisocial behaviour all over the country. At the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) biennial conference in Cork, workers reported that robberies, threats, assaults and racist abuse are happening on an almost daily basis.

• 1 hour, 25 mins ago
  

  Broadband providers issued new advertising rules by ASAI

  Ads which claim that users can reach certain speeds, will only be allowed if it is the experience of at least half of users.

• 2 hours, 27 mins ago
  

  'You’re changing someone’s life': Store owner hopes €11.2m lotto winner is local

  We hope it's a local - say the owners of the lucky service station in County Wicklow where Ireland’s largest winning Lotto ticket in two years was sold.

• 2 hours, 38 mins ago
  

  No more excuses, Stormont’s rowing politicians warned

  Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith said public sector workers had for too long been forced to fill the vacuum left by a lack of leadership.