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Legality of marriages at embassies questioned 10 Mar 2010 | 10:16 am
The Dept of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that thousands of foreign couples who got married here have been told their unions are invalid and illegal.
Taxi stoppages continue in Dublin, Cork 10 Mar 2010 | 10:16 am
Taxi stoppages are continuing in Dublin this morning and the action is being expanded to other areas of the city.
Aer Lingus meeting with union on redundancies 10 Mar 2010 | 10:15 am
IMPACT representatives are meeting Aer Lingus management today to discuss compulsory redundancies.

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Halfaloaf.ie was set up in June 09 and is a social and networking forum primarily for people who are unemployed but it is open to everyone and we encourage everyone to join as we need everybody on board to help solve the current crisis.

The site has four main aims:

Help end the Social Isolation Unemployed people feel
Encourage business ideas and networking/volunteering
Be an outlet and a voice for the unemployed.
Help get people back into mainstream of society by linking the business community to the unemployed

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View from the Street

with Joseph Morgan

The original report recommending NAMA as a strategy for removing toxic loans from the major Irish banks was written by Dr Peter Bacon over a year ago. Other than railroading the legislation through with their majority vote and setting up a NAMA board, there has been little real progress by the government since then.