Dublin firm develops anti-bullying app for mobile phones [businessandleadership.com]
- Published: 14 December 2009
The first-ever off-the-shelf mobile phone application specifically designed as an anti-bullying measure for children has been released by a Dublin-based tech company.
Bully Stop, as developed by Virtual Mobile Application Development (VMAD), a company owned and run by brothers Tony and Jim Cullen, has been approved by Trinity College Dublin’s Anti Bullying Centre.
College to pay back staff who donated wages to keep jobs [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 14 December 2009
STAFF of University College Cork who agreed to give a week’s wages back to help bosses keep jobs are to have the money repaid.
In an email to all staff last week, just hours before Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced wage cuts of 5% to 15% for all public sector workers, UCC president Dr Michael Murphy said the money was being returned and he thanked those who had contributed.
Full Story: www.irishexaminer.com
Demo against public sector pay cuts [Independent.ie]
- Published: 14 December 2009
Thousands of public sector workers are expected to protest outside the Dail over pay cuts, union leaders claimed.
Dublin-based teachers, nurses, firemen and civil servants will voice their objections over savage wage reductions while TDs discuss the legislation to slash salaries by between 5% and 15%.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Public workers to take pay cuts protest to Dáil [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 14 December 2009
Dublin-based teachers, nurses, firemen and civil servants will voice their objections over savage pay cuts while TDs inside discuss the legislation to slash their wages by between 5% and 15%.
Church must exit from the schoolroom [Independent.ie]
- Published: 13 December 2009
SO the Hierarchy is "deeply shocked by the scale and depravity of abuse" as described in the Murphy report, and "humbly" asks forgiveness. And the Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, a man called Eamonn Walsh, condemned by Judge Yvonne Murphy for his "inappropriate" handling of a complaint of sexual abuse, says "If I'd done any wrong, I'd be gone." The Bishop of Galway, a man called Martin Drennan, tells us that Judge Murphy's report "says nothing negative about me".
Well now, isn't that just dandy?
Full Story: www.independent.ie
