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Cuts could wreck poorer children's college chances
Source: Irish Independent
THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children's groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…
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Over-70s will lose right to medical cards
Source: The Irish Independent
by Eilish O'Regan UP to 10,000 over 70s will lose out on automatic entitlement to a medical card next year as the Government puts a halt to the scheme in today's Budget. The automatic entitlement to a medical card -- regardless of means -- is…
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Childcare to suffer in tough budget
Source: Irish Examiner
by Shaun Connolly and Paul O'Brien TAOISEACH Brian Cowen yesterday braced the nation for an austerity budget set to hammer hard-pressed families with a double blow of tax rises and childcare cuts. Mr Cowen warned he had no way of avoiding the "tough" decisions dominating…
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Rich pickings in an overlong, authorised biography of a billionaire investor
Source: Irish Times
BOOK OF THE DAY: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury 960pp, £25 reviewed by CONOR O'CLERY THIS IS the second major biography of Warren Buffett, whose net worth was recently estimated at US$62 billion, but the first which…
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Scheme to make nursing home care 'anxiety-free'
Source: Irish Examiner
THE new Nursing Homes Support Scheme will make residential care accessible, affordable and anxiety-free, Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday. Families should not find themselves under financial pressure to come up with large amounts of cash to pay for a relative's care, Ms Harney said.…
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Merger of five rights bodies in doubt
Source: Irish Times
by DEAGLAN de BREADUN SERIOUS DOUBT has arisen over proposals to merge five human rights and equality bodies as a costsaving measure in the forthcoming budget. There are strong indications that the merger will either be abandoned or else implemented in a much-modified form. High-level…
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Minister publishes 'fair deal' nursing-home Bill
Source: The Irish Times
by JASON MICHAEL, OLIVIA KELLY and EITHNE DONNELLAN The Minister for Health today published the long-awaited Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 amid criticism from Opposition parties and Age Action. The Bill published by Mary Harney underpins the fair deal nursing home funding scheme and…
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More Traveller pupils in second level
Source: Irish Examiner
by Niall Murray THE numbers of Traveller children making it to second-level education has more than doubled in six years but the vast majority still never make it to the Leaving Certificate. Figures revealed by Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe show that 2,317 students from the…
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Music for a good Cause
Source: Irish Voice
From the Hob by Paul Keating ONE of the enduring objectives of folk music is its ability to remind us of our common humanity and bonds that should unite us rather than divide us. Sometimes, though, the harsher side of life informs and inspires us…
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