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Fairport students to get refunds for botched trip
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 18–> All 19 Fairport High School students and the three adult chaperones who accompanied them on a ill-fated winter-break trip to Ireland that never made it past Newark, N.J., will likely get all their money back, and more. But that was of little solace to the students who had planned about a [...]
Read More >>Protest group prevents home repossession
Protest group prevents home repossession By Jennifer Hough Wednesday, February 22, 2012 A county sheriff has been prevented from repossessing a home on behalf of a bank in Laois by a nationwide organisation set up to stop the eviction of people and families from their homes. In a stand-off with the sheriff, who came to [...]
Read More >>Hawk’s Nest development backed by council
The Midland City Council backed several development-related requests Monday night, including rezoning land and approving a preliminary plat for the Hawk’s Nest subdivision at Saginaw Road and Dublin Avenue. The 62-lot subdivision would include one cul-de-sac and two roads that could connect to potential future developments to the west. The land includes about 30 acres [...]
Read More >>Health cuts unveiled in regional plan
The Irish Times – Wednesday, February 22, 2012 EOGHAN Mac CONNELL REDUCED HOSPITAL activity on bank holiday weekends, cuts to respite care hours and 111 community nursing home bed closures feature in the Health Service Executive service plan for the Dublin Mid Leinster region, revealed yesterday. The measures are designed to try to cope with [...]
Read More >>Greyhound bins’ boss parties as elderly hit with charges
DUBLIN’S bins service may be in crisis – but that didn’t stop Greyhound Waste boss Brian Buckley partying at the weekend. The wealthy rubbish chief hosted a “gangsters and molls” birthday bash at a city hotel. The city council and Greyhound have come in for heavy criticism over the management of the city’s new privatised [...]
Read More >>Builder dismisses safety warnings at inner city regeneration project
A LEADING construction firm has dismissed out of hand the idea that health and safety is an issue at a major inner city regeneration project. Bam Building Ltd said it rejects warnings by Dublin City Council to get off-site at St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, where it is building 65 new apartments, 10 homes, a creche [...]
Read More >>Ireland’s dumbest criminal goes to jail
Irelands dumbest criminal goes to jail A man dubbed one of Irelands stupidest criminals has been jailed for seven years for a botched robbery of a gold storage business in Dublin. Gary Byrne (30), the getaway driver, left the scene of the crime while the robbery was in progress. He left his accomplices, Ian Jordan (33) [...]
Read More >>YKK AP Hosts Installation Quality Assurance Training Session for Customers
AUSTELL, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–YKK AP America, the leader in manufacturing high quality architectural products, is hosting an Installation Quality Assurance Training Session in Dublin, Georgia this week. The course provides project managers, fabrication shop supervisors, jobsite managers and supervisors of glaziers with basic knowledge and tools that can be carried back to their individual companies for [...]
Read More >>Builder rejects warnings on safety
Monday, 20 February 2012 Bam Building Ltd has dismissed the idea that health and safety is an issue at a major inner city regeneration project enlarge A leading construction firm has dismissed out of hand the idea that health and safety is an issue at a major inner city regeneration project. Bam Building Ltd said [...]
Read More >>Home sweet (town) home
Stringent lending guidelines by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in reaction to the 2008 housing collapse have stymied traditional condominium construction, leaving developers scrambling to reorganize arrangements. The agencies, who dominate the industry, tightened rules on housing where the purchaser does not own the land under the building, such as “stacked” condominiums where buyers have [...]
Read More >>"You won’t be getting away"
“You won’t be getting away” Chilling Facebook threat to traveller before girl is murdered in gun attack THIS is the prime suspect in the murder of 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy who used his Facebook page to threaten travellers that they “won’t be getting away”. The 23-year-old from Tallaght in south Dublin is suspected of murdering Melanie [...]
Read More >>Council tenants to be able to buy flats
The Irish Times – Monday, February 20, 2012 OLIVIA KELLY TENANTS OF local authority flats will have the chance to buy their homes for the first time under legislation due to come into force in two weeks’ time. The Tenant Purchase of Apartments Scheme was provided for in the 2009 Housing Act, but is only [...]
Read More >>‘IRA’ drug-gang linked to double British murder
But gardai believe former dissidents are still ‘trading off’ name in order to scare opponents The “IRA” gang referred to in a British murder trial last week as running the drugs trade in Liverpool is almost certainly a mixture of local gangsters and their Dublin and Limerick-based associates, gardai believe. The mention of the gang [...]
Read More >>Guns man gets two years’ jail
A Dublin man was given a five-year sentence with three years suspended by the Special Criminal Court yesterday for having three pistols at his home in Artane last year. John Walsh (24), of Harmonstown Road, Artane, had pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of three Walther 9mm pistols and three magazines suitable for the pistols [...]
Read More >>Wonder walls
The Irish Times – Saturday, February 18, 2012UP THE WALL: Eastern Eden wallpaper from Iksel Escape the tyranny of neutral colours and put your finger on some perfect prints, writes ALANNA GALLAGHER NEUTRAL COLOURS HAVE ruled planet decor for almost a decade. But the mood has changed – recession-era homes demand mood-enhancing colour, and fashion [...]
Read More >>Banks order thousands in mortgage fix to cut other bills
their satellite or cable television services. ? Secure a reduction in other loan repayments before coming to the bank for help. ? Take children out of private, fee-paying schools. More than 74,000 homeowners have secured deals from their banks to reduce their monthly mortgage repayments after suffering job losses, the collapse of a business or [...]
Read More >>Irish Troubled Home Loans Rise to More Than 100000, Data Show
February 17, 2012, 9:49 AM EST By Joe Brennan Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — The share of Irish mortgages in arrears or restructured rose in the fourth quarter to more 100,000, or 14 percent of all home loans, according to the central bank. At the end of December, some 107,708 out of a total 768,917 mortgages [...]
Read More >>OPINION: Keep the housing floodgates closed
Pleasanton’s two decades of managed slow growth policies ended Monday with the City Council’s final approval of a new “housing element” that will become part of the city’s General Plan. By rezoning nine separate sites totaling 73 acres throughout the city for high-density housing, the council has authorized developers to build more than 3,000 units [...]
Read More >>Elizabeth Boven, 96
Elizabeth G. (Betty) Boven, age 96, of Holland, died Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at the Inn at Freedom Villlage. She was preceded in death by her brother, George Goehner. Born in Flushing, NY, on July 14, 1915, to George and Mary Goehner, Betty, at age 17, traveled by train to Holland in 1932, to [...]
Read More >>SF developer failed Priory Hall residents, says Gilmore
The Irish Times – Friday, February 17, 2012 MICHAEL O’REGAN THERE WERE heated exchanges between Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and Sinn Féin TDs when he claimed that Priory Hall residents were failed in the first instance by a Sinn Féin developer. Describing the charge as a “disgrace’’, SF’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn insisted the developer of the [...]
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