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		<title>Cabinet meet to consider joining public service strikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minister for Arts Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cabinet is divided over whether its members should join in the series of public service strikes announced by trade unions yesterday.
Members of the cabinet will meet today to decide whether to join the striking workers.
&#8220;It could go either way,&#8221; a senior minister said. &#8220;Most of us think we have every right to strike and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It would be irresponsible to take graduates seriously, Govt says</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Government source has said criticism levelled at the Government in an article by 28 leading  economists, social scientists and economic analysts cannot be taken seriously because of grade inflation.
The article says the Government&#8217;s economic strategy is failing and its own policies have contributed to the collapse.
However, a government source robustly refuted the claims. &#8220;Perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enda Kenny identified as leader of group trying to overthrow Govt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An undercover investigation by The Mire has identified Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny as the ringleader of a secret organisation dedicated to overthrowing the Government.
Mr Kenny&#8217;s day-to-day posturing as the ineffectual leader of an irrelevant political party is, in fact, a clever ruse to divert suspicion from his sinister aims.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to credit but he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate honour as Gormley may leave Cabinet to become a plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has learned that Environment Minister John Gormley is considering stepping down from his Cabinet position in order to become a plant in the Organic Centre in Leitrim.
&#8220;This is a great honour for Mr Gormley,&#8221; a Green source said. &#8220;In our world it doesn&#8217;t get any better than being a plant.&#8221;
It is understood that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colleges to give students character references instead of grades</title>
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		<comments>http://themire.net/colleges-to-give-students-character-references-instead-of-grades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grade inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic sources have conceded that ongoing grade inflation problems will be difficult to solve as many of those who currently award grades were themselves beneficiaries of grade inflation.
&#8220;It would be a bit much to expect them to mark papers on merit. They would have to know the answers,&#8221; a source said.
Instead, third level institutions will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie hotels to house our highly qualified uneducated people</title>
		<link>http://themire.net/zombie-hotels-to-accommodate-highly-qualified-uneducated-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Binge education was as big a factor of the Celtic Tiger years as binge drinking and binge banking, according to an unpublished study on university grade inflation.
&#8220;They were heady days,&#8221; an academic said. &#8220;You only had to walk past a university to get a degree. Sure we were throwing PhDs out the windows to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE warns ambulances not to take members of public to hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambulance staff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Service Executive (HSE) has warned ambulance staff not to carry  patients to hospitals in any circumstances.
The move follows concerns that by taking patients on board ambulances might inadvertently accept a duty of care. &#8220;Obviously this would not be desireable or practical,&#8221; a HSE spokesman said.
&#8220;In future only ambulance staff should ride in ambulances,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New sat nav helps drunk driver get home by singing MacArthur Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elderly drivers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Harris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest wave of satellite navigation systems which will be unveiled in Barcelona today can form relationships with drivers and interact directly with them.
Perhaps the most exciting feature of these highly sophisticated sat navs is their ability to repeatedly remind elderly drivers who they are and where they are going.
&#8220;At first they are nice about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents urged to ridicule fat kids in battle against obesity</title>
		<link>http://themire.net/parents-urged-to-ridicule-fat-kids-in-battle-against-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://themire.net/parents-urged-to-ridicule-fat-kids-in-battle-against-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A multi-million euro initiative aimed at tackling obesity in children has recommended that parents and teachers publicly ridicule fat kids for their own good.
Other recommendations in the report by the HSE&#8217;s Controller of Fat Kids include making tubby children run alongside the car on shopping trips and setting killer dogs on them.
&#8220;This is about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dublin mayor to get prime begging position on O&#8217;Connell Bridge</title>
		<link>http://themire.net/dublin-mayor-to-get-prime-begging-position-on-oconnell-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Mire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The directly-elected mayor of Dublin will have exclusive rights to a prime begging position on O&#8217;Connell Bridge, according to draft legislation published today.
Existing beggars will have to vacate the area unless they successfully run for the mayor&#8217;s position. Earnings from begging will be exempt from income tax as the position of mayor will be designated [...]]]></description>
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