Category: News
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Former communications ministers receive more than €70,000 in mileage expenses in 30-month period
Mileage expenses paid to former Ministers at the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment for local travel between May 2016 and October 2018 amounted to €70,972.30, according to figures obtained by TheCity following a Freedom of Information request. The politicians are former…
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While the SUSI grant helps many, some students still fall through the cracks
Just over 85,000 college students received a grant under the 2018 Student Grant Scheme according to figures released by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) under Freedom of Information legislation. During the 2018 academic year, 98,508 applications for a grant were submitted to SUSI’s…
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Disability services remain an issue
Trinity College has records of two complaints made in relation to disability access during 2017 while other colleges and Dublin County Council said they had no records of any complaints made. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, records with “information pertaining to…
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Irish prison population decreasing
7,484 people were committed to Irish prisons in 2017, according to the Irish Prison service, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. The latest figures from the Irish Prison Service show the number of people committed to Irish prisons has decreased…
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Sport Ireland record rise in doping for 4th consecutive year
Sport Ireland recorded a rise in “doping whereabouts” failures in 2017 for the fourth year in a row, TheCity.ie can reveal. Failures have risen from four in 2014 to twelve in 2017, a 200 percent increase in a four year period. Over this time,…
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Government responds to ranking of Ireland as worst performing European nation for climate change
The government is set to invest €4.5 million in tackling climate change after it was revealed that Ireland is the worst performing European country for climate action. The UN Climate Conference took place in Poland on Monday, where Ireland was ranked as the…
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Fitness exam most common cause for failure in Army Reserve
The Army Reserve fitness exam was the most common area of failure for applicants over the past four years according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. In order to be accepted into the Irish Army Reserve, candidates must be between…
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Thousands protest in Dublin housing rally
Last week, held on the fourth anniversary of the death of Johnathan Corrie, an estimated 10,000 people took part in a protest organised by the National Housing and Homeless Coalition, represented by about fifty different groups of homeless activists and unions. The protest…
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The buskers of Grafton Street
Grafton Street, full of hustle and bustle and shoppers weaving in and out of one another. There is hardly any time or space to stop and listen to the handful of buskers who play on Grafton Street every day. TheCity.ie ventured to the…
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Ninety percent of horses seized in Fingal were euthanised last year
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that almost 90 percent of horses seized in 2017 in the Fingal County area were euthanised. These figures show that 139 of 155 horses taken in around the Fingal area were euthanised with only…
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