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Cannabis perceptions to be tackled | Irish Examiner.

An awareness campaign is needed to correct the attitude that cannabis is relatively harmless, a drug taskforce has said.  Dublin’s north inner city drug task force is planning a local campaign to educate people about the newer, and more potent, forms of cannabis…

Parents to be fined if children cycle with no helmet via @independent_ie. 

“CHILDREN will be legally obliged to wear helmets while cycling as part of a strategy being drawn up by safety authorities.   Parents of children who break the law would be fined under the plan, the Irish Independent has learnt…”

‘What lies ahead for us is uncertain’.

GENERATION EMIGRATION: This year’s journalism class at the University of Limerick began their course in 2008. Now, as they prepare to graduate, the students explain their plans for the future, and whether they will emigrate or remain at home

Euro’s survival needs shift in strategy | Irish Examiner.

Rather than the austerity prescription Germany is promoting, the euro needs policies to promote growth and ease deficit targets to avoid sustained recession, writes Laura Tyson

FISCAL profligacy did not cause the sovereign-debt crisis engulfing Europe, and fiscal austerity will not solve it.

Recession ‘hitting immigrant community the hardest’ | Irish Examiner.

Immigrants have been hit harder by the recession and there are growing levels of concern about their overall integration into various aspects of Irish life.