Dublin News
Dublin to sell up to €3bn in state assets
February 22, 2012 3:31 pm By Jamie Smyth in Dublin Article source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/09d3c9ec-5d54-11e1-869d-00144feabdc0.html
Read More >>Dion Dublin backs Paul Scholes international comeback
Interim boss Stuart Pearce is set to unveil the Three Lions squad for this month’s friendly with Holland tomorrow. Prior to Fabio Capello’s shock departure, there had been some speculation that Scholes was again on the Italian’s radar following his sensational retirement U-turn. Capello had already made one failed attempt to get Scholes back in [...]
Read More >>Dublin hails Lambert impact
(UKPA) – 2 hours ago Former Norwich striker Dion Dublin has praised manager Paul Lambert for the attitude and aptitude he has shown at the Carrow Road helm. The former Scotland international took the reins at the Canaries in October 2009 when they were a League One club. He then led them to back-to-back from [...]
Read More >>East Dublin’s Redneck Games to Return in May – WXIA
<!– –> Tweet – A A A + <!– –> MACON, Ga. (WMAZ) — East Dublin’s Redneck Games 2012 has been set for Saturday, May 26. That’s a change from last year’s July event. Event coordinator Kelvin Cauley says the change in dates should help with the heat. RELATED | Review print vendor application PHOTOS [...]
Read More >>Growth forecast for Dublin office prices and rents
Prime Irish office prices are likely to rise, while conditions will improve for the development of new offices, a recent business seminar in Dublin has heard. Paul McDowell, managing director Knight Frank Ireland, pointed out that while Dublin rents compare favourably with those in Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Brussels, Irish yields are lagging behind [...]
Read More >>Ireland’s Nama faces Dublin court case
February 22, 2012 4:54 am By Jamie Smyth in Dublin Article source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2777fd46-5cb5-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html
Read More >>Six Nations: Ireland name unchanged side to face Italy in Dublin
Ireland have named an unchanged starting XV for Saturday’s Six Nations match with Italy at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Jonathan Sexton has made a full recovery from the thigh muscle injury sustained before the postponed match against France and starts at fly-half. The fixture begins a gruelling schedule of four games in as many [...]
Read More >>Dublin ‘among riskiest’ online cities
irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 13:37The survey of 100 cities was conducted by internet security firm Norton and research group Sperling’s BestPlaces. EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY Dublin has been ranked in the top ten of European cities with the highest number of cybercrime risk factors. The survey of 100 cities, conducted by internet security [...]
Read More >>Dublin Office Market to Revive as Facebook, Google Add Space
February 21, 2012, 1:06 PM EST By Neil Callanan (Updates with IDA chief’s comment in 24th paragraph.) Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — When Bill Clinton told American executives that they’d be “nuts” not to invest in Ireland, many were already ahead of the former president. U.S. companies were behind almost 40 percent of offices bought or [...]
Read More >>Whiteford man dies in Dublin motorcycle accident
A small memorial, consisting of a cross with a sash bearing the word “Father” and a bouquet of lilies and another of daisies and other flowers, sat along Route 440 in the Dublin area of northern Harford County Monday, a tribute to a motorcyclist who was killed on the highway Saturday morning. The death of [...]
Read More >>China’s Vice President Xi kicks off Dublin visit
By Padraic Halpin and Lorraine Turner DUBLIN | Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:54pm EST DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s national sports of Gaelic football and hurling won an unlikely new audience on Sunday when pictures of China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping kicking a football in Dublin’s Croke Park stadium were beamed home to Beijing. Xi, who chose [...]
Read More >>Dublin Office Market Set to Revive as Facebook, Google Add Space
February 20, 2012, 11:55 PM EST By Neil Callanan Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — When Bill Clinton told American executives that they’d be “nuts” not to invest in Ireland, many were already ahead of the former president. U.S. companies were behind almost 40 percent of offices bought or leased in Dublin in 2011 and the trend [...]
Read More >>Bank of Ireland returns to net profit despite heavy loan writeoffs; deposits …
It is the first Irish bank to record a net profit of any kind since Ireland’s long-booming economy came crashing down in 2009 amid a burst property bubble. Bank of Ireland underscored its funding strength versus its two surviving domestic rivals, state-owned Allied Irish Banks and Irish Life Permanent. Its deposits increased 9 percent to [...]
Read More >>Man admits Dublin killing of Durham man Raymond Bates
20 February 2012 Last updated at 08:26 ET A man has admitted the road-rage killing of an English motorist in Dublin. Karl Donohoe, 30, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of construction worker Raymond Bates in September 2010. Father-of-three Mr Bates, 49, from Peterlee, County Durham, died in hospital four days after being hit on the [...]
Read More >>Seven held in Dublin criminal gang operation
Six men and one woman have been arrested in a series of searches on homes and businesses by gardaí investigating the activities of a west Dublin criminal gang. Officers from the Garda National Drugs Unit along with local units and the Criminal Assets Bureau seized a quantity of drugs during the searches of over 30 [...]
Read More >>Dublin bin row continues
The Dublin bin row rages on as residents were left in the dark as to whether their bins will be collected next week as uncertainty grows over the privatised Greyhound service. Bins were collected yesterday from those homes who had not signed up to the service, despite being told that Thursday was the deadline for [...]
Read More >>Review: Dublin City of Literature by Muriel Bolger
Given the way the State has been bailing out our banks, there is a feeling that the country should be getting something back, and apparently the latest proposal for the old Bank of Ireland building on College Green (former seat of Grattan’s parliament) is that the neo-classical building be turned into a literary museum, a [...]
Read More >>China’s Vice President Xi kicks off Dublin visit
Padraic Halpin and Lorraine Turner Reuters 1:55 p.m. CST, February 19, 2012 Article source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-ireland-chinatre81i0l7-20120219,0,831217.story
Read More >>Whitney: was hers the saddest show ever seen in Dublin?
John Meagher Music Critic There was a time when Whitney Houston was queen of all she surveyed. Her voice was a thing of wonder — an instrument every bit as special as those of her heroines, Aretha Franklin, Etta James and Diana Ross. And the world loved her for it. In the early 1990s she [...]
Read More >>Chinese VP arrives at Dublin to continue visit
<!–enpproperty 2012-02-20 00:21:03.0Chinese VP arrives at Dublin to continue visitXi Jinping,Ireland visit,Dublin1811048812Politics2@usa/enpproperty–> DUBLIN - Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived here in Dublin on Sunday afternoon to continue his official visit to Ireland. He is scheduled to meet with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny later on Sunday. Xi arrived at Shannon, a scenic city in [...]
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