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IRISH CIGARETTE BAN
BY MONICA DOBIE
IRELAND will ban smoking in all public places including pubs and restaurants from January 2004 onwards. The announcement came as Ireland’s Office of Tobacco Control released a study which found that people who work in smoky environments are up to 30 per cent more likely to develop heart disease and cancer because of passive smoking.…
BSE CASES - IRELAND
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE NUMBER of recorded BSE cases in Ireland reached a record high in 2002 with 333 cases compared to 246 in 2001. However, the Irish Department of Agriculture claimed the underlying trend was more positive, with the number recorded since the start of August 2002 down 32 per cent on the corresponding 2001 period.…
FISH QUOTAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has approved sharply reduced total allowable catch (TAC) quotas for cod, haddock and whiting (which are caught together) for the North Sea, the Irish Sea, west of Scotland and the Skagerrak waters closer to Norway.…
IRELAND - KYOTO - IRISH KYOTO COST
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE IRISH government has been calculating the cost of introducing a carbon tax to fall in line with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and associated EU legislation. Its environment minister Martin Cullen said the price of complying with a target of capping greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland at 13 per cent of 1990 levels could be as much as Euro 260 million annually over a five-year period.…
NATIONAL FRAUDS FEATURE
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
BRITAIN’S National Health Service (NHS) is exposed to an estimated annual fraud loss of pounds 2 billion each year.…
IRISH SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMMERCIAL ferry is being fitted with optical sensors by two universities to conduct an environmental survey of the surface of the Irish Sea, which will provide comprehensive data to improve the management of its ecosystems.
The University of Wales’ School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, and the National University of Ireland are using Irish Ferries’ Ulysses for the experiment.…
PASSENGER INSURANCE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a claim by a bereaved mother that European law entitled her compensation for the death of her son in a road accident, where he was a passenger sitting in an unseated rear area of a Citroën C 15 D diesel van.…
IRISH SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMMERCIAL ferry is being fitted with optical sensors by two universities to conduct an environmental survey of the surface of the Irish Sea, which will provide comprehensive data to improve the management of its ecosystems.
The University of Wales’ School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, and the National University of Ireland are using Irish Ferries’ Ulysses for the experiment.…
IRISH SEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMMERCIAL ferry is being fitted with optical sensors by two universities to conduct an environmental survey of the surface of the Irish Sea, which will provide comprehensive data to improve the management of its ecosystems.
The University of Wales’ School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, and the National University of Ireland are using Irish Ferries’ Ulysses for the experiment.…
BSE IRELAND
BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THIS YEAR will see the highest ever number of confirmed BSE cases in Irish cattle, according to official government figures. The country’s Department of Agriculture admits that the number of cases detected so far this year has reached 246, the same figure for all of 2001, itself a record year.…