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N.Irish sextuplets mum ignored advice to abort
Jun 14, 2009 |
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A mother who gave birth to sextuplets told a British Sunday newspaper that she rejected doctors' advice to abort several of the foetuses because her children were a "gift from God".
Dell to cut further 230 jobs in Ireland: report
Mar 20, 2009 |
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US computer giant Dell is set to lay off up to 230 more workers in Ireland as a part of cost-cutting plans, RTE state radio said on Friday.
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Ireland cuts way down on plastic bag use
Feb 03, 2008 |
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Ireland has successfully banned the free distribution and reduced the overall use of plastic bags in businesses throughout the country.
For good or ill Ireland gains another mammal species
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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A recent study, soon to be published in Mammal Review, details the discovery of a mammal which has never been seen before in Ireland. The shrew, which has been spotted in Tipperary and Limerick, is only t ...
Survival rates for cancer rise across Ireland
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals.
Gene with possible link to schizophrenia identified
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have identified a gene associated with schizophrenia that could provide further insight about the functional changes that occur on the molecular level in individuals who suffer ...
Hewlett Packard to create 500 jobs in Ireland
Mar 10, 2009 |
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US technology company Hewlett Packard is to create 500 jobs with an 18-million-euro (23-million-dollar) expansion of its global service desk operation in Leixlip, County Kildare southwest of Dublin, Prime ...
Cutting greenhouse gases could grow the economy
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Over £14 ($23) billion more in products and services could be produced in Northern Ireland's economy each year if greenhouse gas producing resources were used as efficiently as they are in the rest of the UK, a research group ...
Increasing prosperity has prompted Irish kids to balloon 24 kilos since 1948
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Irish kids now weigh 24 kilos more than they did in 1948, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Caesarean babies more likely to develop diabetes
Aug 26, 2008 |
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Babies delivered by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher risk than normal deliveries of developing the most common type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study led by Queen's University Belfast.
Queen's marine biologist investigates aliens beneath the waves
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Queen's University Belfast is appealing for help from the public in looking at ways to detect and stop the spread of marine aliens.
A sudden Tropical Storm Grace explodes in far Eastern Atlantic
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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The latest tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean may have escaped the notice of most when it formed just before midnight last night so far north and east in the Atlantic, away from where forecasters usually ...
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