Vivienne Clarke
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SIPTU denies threat of industrial action in public sector talks is bluffing - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)
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The deputy general secretary of the country’s largest trade union, SIPTU, has denied that the threat of industrial action in advance of public sector pay talks was posturing or bluffing. Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Adrian Kane said the current situation was “this is a mess of the government's own making.” The decision of SIPTU and its sister unions to ballot members across the public sector during the month of August was because of “the failure of the government to put an offer in r
Government looking at additional measures to monitor motorways in wake of M9 crash - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)
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Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien has said that the government is looking at ways in which to put additional monitoring in place on motorways to allow for early warning of incidents such as the fatal crash on the M9 which involved driving the wrong way on the motorway. “We are looking at how we can put additional monitoring in place on our motorways for early warning. This type of behaviour is completely and utterly unacceptable,” he told Newstalk’s Claire Byrne show. “It's reprehensible as
Fuels Ireland chief calls for review of fuel taxes as Government plans excise increases - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)
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Kevin McPartland of Fuels Ireland has repeated a call for more detailed examination of fuel taxation policies and other compliance costs put on fuel, rather than the current “ad hoc approach”. “We should sit down and have a considered look at this,” he told Newstalk Breakfast with Anton Savage. “That's not to suggest that we have to reduce the overall bill on fuel, I don't think that that's a realistic prospect at all, but what we need to look at is the policy that we are pursuing, or the polici
Cork boy will return to school 'with a smile on his face' after Friedreich's ataxia drug approved - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)
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Craig Coady, who campaigned to have the drug Skyclarys made available for his son Paudie, has spoken of his relief and how the announcement has brought “a bit of light into this house again”. Coady’s son Rory died from Friedreich’s Ataxia last year, and his son Paudie also has the condition. “We’ve been through a lot,” he told Newstalk’s Claire Byrne show. Because of the campaign, Coady said he had not been able to spend as much time with Paudie as he would have liked; now he could spend more ti
Vigil to take place in Co Carlow for three sisters and boy injured in M9 crash - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)
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A vigil will take place in Graiguecullen, Co Carlow on Friday evening to show community support for the three sisters, Alma and Niamh Kinsella and Ella Hendricken, and a seven-year-old boy who were all seriously injured in the crash on the M9 on Sunday morning in which five teens died. Parish priest Fr John Dunphy told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that the vigil was an opportunity for the whole community “to show their support to the young ladies and the young boy and their families and I think t
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