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TD calls for car-pooling parking bays at motorway junctions to help commuters cut costs
4+ hour, 46+ min ago (421+ words) A Fianna F'il TD has urged the Government to establish new, designated parking bays at motorway junctions to support car-pooling in an effort to curtail rising costs for commuters. There is "clear" demand for a system similar to the Luas…...
Croke Park to host Manchester United v Leeds pre-season friendly
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (119+ words) Manchester United will face Leeds in a pre-season friendly at Croke Park on August 12th. It will be the first soccer fixture staged at GAA HQ since the Republic of Ireland's faced France in 2009. "Playing an important fixture against one of…...
The Ballad of Johnny & June review: Jukebox musical with excellent cast is a storytelling disappointment
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (477+ words) The last big musical number in The Ballad of Johnny & June, a jukebox musical about two of American country music's biggest stars, is an emotional duet of the love song Always on my Mind. Most famously recorded by Johnny Cash's…...
MetroLink director to step down from long-delayed rail link project
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (516+ words) MetroLink boss Sean Sweeney is resigning from the project to develop Dublin's long-awaited underground rail line less than two years after being appointed to the "550,000-a-year-role. The 67-year-old from New Zealand said he was stepping down as programme director for…...
Could already booked flights see a surcharge or could they be cancelled due to fuel shortage?
21+ hour, 36+ min ago (1074+ words) Disruption to jet fuel supply is expected from "early May" if the US-Israel war on Iran continues beyond April, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Wednesday, giving rise to fears the air fares could be about to skyrocket ahead…...
Patrick Freyne: Experts say chatbots can now pass the Turing test; this is because lots of humans now fail it
14+ hour, 48+ min ago (1145+ words) Inside (Netflix) is a show fronted by the Sidemen, an amorphous mass of indistinguishable young men who live in the Internet. So you will currently find them wobbling about like Weebles or Fisher-Price characters outside of their natural habitat " your…...
Migrant chef paid €1.61 an hour for 90-hour weeks in case branded ‘economic slavery’
11+ hour, 5+ min ago (562+ words) A migrant worker brought to Ireland to work as a chef has won nearly "80,000 for multiple employment rights breaches after he wound up earning just "1.61 an hour for doing 90-hour weeks for his employer. The Workplace Relations Commission made the…...
Agreement in principle on plan to allow tax-free rental of back garden cabins
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (623+ words) There is agreement in principle at the top of Government for the rent-a-room scheme to apply to back garden cabins, but more work is needed before the proposals can go to Cabinet. A Government spokesman said some Ministers raised "a…...
‘Nobody wants to live like this’: Pearse House residents say they live with rats, mould
7+ hour, 53+ min ago (683+ words) Standing in her flat in Pearse House in Dublin's south inner city, youth and community worker Eileen Nalty says, "Nobody wants to live like this." Nalty (57), who is a member of the complex's residents' association, cites problems with overcrowding, mould,…...
Ballysallagh House is a rare example of an unspoilt Georgian home with gardens and stables
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (373+ words) Now Ballysallagh House " a 559sq m (6,017sq ft) Georgian two-storey-over-garden-level home on five acres with four double bedrooms, one en suite, a large country kitchen, formal gardens designed and created by the Whites, four stables and other outbuildings " is for sale through…...