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# state - Friday 17 May, 2013
Justice for Magdalenes group ends its campaign
The group said that it has ended its political campaign now that the objectives of an apology and a redress scheme for Magdalene survivors have been achieved.
# state - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Column: Are we proud that Ireland is the poster child of austerity?
Austerity has not worked in Ireland or across the eurozone, writes Joan Collins, who points out that even the architects of our bailout admit it was the wrong path.
# state - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Terrorist explosion kills nine in Damascus
The explosion took place in the central district of Marjeh, Syrian state television said.
# state - Monday 29 April, 2013
Burton urged to take action so State can save €21m a year
RoisÃn Shorthall says that if the State was to be reimbursed by insurers for welfare payments taken out while people are injured and claim welfare, they could save millions.
# state - Sunday 21 April, 2013
“Against all the odds, I survived”: Bethany Home survivors tell their stories
Two men who spent time in the Bethany Home as children spoke to TheJournal.ie about the neglect they say they experienced there.
# state - Friday 19 April, 2013
Column: Judges and ministers public spat will achieve nothing, but reform is needed
Tensions are high this week between the judicial and executive branches of government, writes Roderic O’Gorman, who says if we want a truly independent judiciary, we must be prepared to undertake radical reform.
# state - Thursday 21 March, 2013
Bank of Cyprus urges bailout deal to save island from ruin
The bank said in a statement that the next move “may prove its salvation or destruction”.
# state - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Shatter drops strong hint that Taoiseach will apologise to Magdalenes
Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said the Government wants to bring closure to the issue.
# state - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Millions more spent on tobacco illnesses than quit services
The Irish Heart Foundation is calling on the State to start spending more money on quit services as National No Smoking Day is marked today.
# state - Monday 11 February, 2013
Apology is ‘fundamentally important’ as Magdalenes meet Taoiseach today
Members of the Magdalene Survivors Together will meet with Taoiseach Enda Kenny this afternoon but another group has sought clarification on the purpose of any meeting.
# state - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Government departments used Magdalene laundries to do their washing
The Departments of Finance, Health, Social Welfare and Education all used the laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin.
# state - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
In their own words: Survivors’ accounts of life inside a Magdalene Laundry
The report published today includes a section devoted to survivors’ first-hand accounts of life in a Laundry.
Religious orders offer apology for abuse in Magdalene Laundries
The four orders whose Laundries were investigated in the report express regret for the abuse uncovered there.
Magdalene Laundries made very little money, says report
Despite a common perception that the laundries were highly profitable, the report by Senator Martin McAleese says they barely broke even.
VIDEO: Taoiseach stops short of apologising for Magdalene Laundries, angering survivors
“That is not an apology… it is a cop out,” survivors said of Enda Kenny’s comments in the Dáil this afternoon.
# state - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Everything you need to know about the promissory notes, but were afraid to ask
You have been and will be hearing a lot about promissory notes in the coming weeks but what’s it all about? We’ve taken your questions, come up with some of our own and asked the experts…
# state - Monday 28 January, 2013
Revealed: Over €9.5 million spent by the State on legal fees in 2012
The amount was revealed in a Parliamentary Question which was asked last week.
# state - Monday 14 January, 2013
Survey begins asking parents who should run primary schools
Ruairà Quinn said the survey is a historic opportunity to parents say whether schools should be denominational, multi-denominational, all-Irish or something else.
# state - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Palestinians win UN state recognition
The US has responded by saying the vote sets ‘obstacles’ to peace, while Canada’s UN ambassador said it “undermines the core” of attempts to broker a peace deal.
# state - Thursday 22 November, 2012
How many Irish tax exiles have paid the ‘rich tax’ this year?
The tax was introduced in 2010 to target wealthy Irish exiles who earn more than €1 million a year and also have assets of over €5 million in Ireland.
# state - Thursday 8 November, 2012
Colm O’Gorman: The State failed children, but so too did society
The head of Amnesty International Ireland addresses concerns of the ‘No’ camp in Children’s Referendum – and says the Constitution will still be unambiguous in asserting the status of the family.
# state - Friday 2 November, 2012
Column: Public sector increments are like a parallel universe
Imagine asking for a pay rise after your business goes bust. That’s the reality of increments, writes Keith Redmond.
# state - Thursday 1 November, 2012
Supreme Court to hear appeal over Children’s Referendum using public money
The High Court today rejected the claim by Mark McCrystal that the Government is using public money to call for a Yes vote – but now the case will go to the Supreme Court.
# state - Thursday 11 October, 2012
The Evening Fix… now with added Christopher Walken
Here’s the things we learned, shared and loved today.
# state - Sunday 30 September, 2012
A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry
One woman tells the story of her mother who was sent to a Laundry in Dublin at the age of 16 – and died there at the age of 51.
# state - Thursday 13 September, 2012
Irish children have been trafficked for ‘criminal’ purposes – report
A new report by researchers at UCC found that a significant number of children who applied for asylum in Ireland disappeared – and may have been trafficked.
# state - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Final report on Magdalene Laundries delayed to year-end
The committee chairperson Martin McAleese said that extra information has to be examined which could add “in a meaningful way” to the overall outcome.
# state - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Column: Ireland needs to become a fully secular state
Everyone is free to practice their religion – but that shouldn’t have anything to do with how we run the country, argue Nathan Wheeler and Sean Cassidy.
# state - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Call for inquiry after €32m in state rental deposits goes missing
A Dublin TD is calling the situation a ‘scandal’.
# state - Friday 3 August, 2012
€83k paid to ex-taoisigh this year – despite scrapping of expenses scheme Exclusive
Payments to former Taoisigh for secretarial allowances continued until March – despite Enda Kenny telling the Dáil they would end in January, TheJournal.ie can reveal.
# state - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Column: How Japanese people interact with their state is the inverse of the Irish
Mark Boyle, an Irishman in Japan, says his home country and his adopted one have polar attitudes to government – and neither have been served well by their approach…
# state - Saturday 16 June, 2012
State spent €70m on private and state accommodation for asylum seekers
Over 5,100 people are currently being housed in 37 accommodation centres around Ireland.
# state - Friday 8 June, 2012
Column: End this ridiculous, wasteful culture of ‘salami slicing’
Not all areas deserve equal cuts – but there ARE some things we could do without, writes William Campbell.
# state - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Over to you: what advice do you have for people doing the Leaving Cert?
The first day of exams is officially over. Got any suggestions for how students can relax and get through the rest of them?
# state - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Shatter to write to Magdalene survivors after criticism of State’s response
Magdalene Survivors Together have criticised the government nearly a year after a UN committee recommended an inquiry into the State’s involvement in the running of the infamous institutions.
# state - Tuesday 22 May, 2012
TD brings legal challenge against ESM treaty
Thomas Pringle agreed a timetable to exchange documents with the State during a filing yesterday.
# state - Saturday 5 May, 2012
Column: Being held to accountability is not persecution, Cardinal Brady
One’s civic duties are not the same as one’s self-imposed religious obligations, writes TheJournal.ie columnist Lisa McInerney – nor are they superseded by them.
# state - Friday 13 April, 2012
Revenue’s cigarette haul is third largest seizure in the history of the State
The Revenue Commissioners said that it would take a number of months before any prosecutions would be brought forward after 38 million cigarettes, worth nearly €15 million, were seized yesterday.
# state - Friday 6 April, 2012
POLL: Do the Good Friday licensing laws bother you?
Whatever your take on whether the licensing laws for today should be changed – do the restrictions actually put in or out on your life? Tell us…
# state - Monday 26 March, 2012
Fire warning as “wildfire season” begins
The warning comes a year after the worst wildfires in the history of the State. Landowners are being warned not to illegally burn waste, particularly as in the current weather conditions fires could spread easily.
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