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Senior Help Line celebrates tenth anniversary
President McAleese to launch Galway centre By Martina Nee More than 60,000 calls have been received by Senior Help Line which is celebrating its 10th anniversary with its first ever national conference in Galway. The two day conference, entitled ‘Reflecting on the Past and Shaping the Future’,…
Author: Galway Advertiser
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Services cannot cope with number of youths seeking help
by CARL OBRIEN HUNDREDS OF children and adolescents in crisis who need counselling and support are being turned away from services because they cannot cope with demand. Crosscare, the social care agency of the Dublin Diocese, said it was unable to deal with about…
Author: The Irish Times
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Caring for Aging Loved Ones Can Be a Catch-22
In her long struggle to care for her gravely ill husband, journalist and Passages author Gail Sheehy recalls one defining moment. More than a year ago, her husband, publisher Clay Felker, was being discharged from a New York City rehabilitation facility after spending several months…
Author: The Washington Post
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Budget cuts put rights at risk, says Amnesty
by OLIVIA KELLY THE DECISION to cut funding for two key human rights organisations in last week’s budget could spell their demise, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland Colm O’Gorman has said. The Government’s decision not to proceed with plans to merge the Equality Authority…
Author: Irish Times
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Activists tackle defence lawyers in lesbian's murder
by NATASHA JOSEPH GENDER activists say they are to lodge complaints with the Law Society of South Africa against several lawyers representing nine men accused of beating a lesbian to death more than two years ago. On February 4, 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, was kicked,…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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TUI warns budget cuts will 'asset-strip' education
by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be “asset-stripped” because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…
Author: Irish Times
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2,000 children put into State care in 2006
by CARL O’BRIEN ALMOST 2,000 children were admitted into State care in 2006 due to abuse or neglect in their families, according to an unpublished report compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The figures are contained in a national review of child and family…
Author: Irish Times
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'Tinker with the health system at your peril'
The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O’Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…
Author: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
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Few benefit despite card climbdown by Harney
by Eilish O’Regan, Senan Molony and Aine Kerr Most of the 140,000 pensioners affected by the controversial Budget measures will still lose out on a full over-70s medical card, despite an embarrassing government climbdown last night. In the face of a blistering backlash, Health Minister…
Author: Irish Independent
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Disclosure of Omagh information demanded
by GERRY MORIARTY NORTHERN IRELAND politicians have demanded the British and Irish security services release all information that could assist in bringing to justice the Real IRA bombers responsible for the August 1998 Omagh bombing that claimed the lives of 29 people and unborn twins.…
Author: The Irish Times