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2019 Taoiseach Wants To Reform Ireland’s Congestion Charges Being
Considered For Irish Cities
25th, ‘Archaic’ Licensing Laws mayors” in a bid to reinvigo- has flown to eastern Ukraine to C
An Irish funded medical team
eo Varadkar said that ises shut down too early.
December Ldescribed Ireland’s nightlife Madrid or Germany or other rate the nightlife, which carry out life-saving surgery on President & Founding
tourists and locals have
“It’s very different in
critically ill children.
“shouldn’t be all about
They have been born with the
Publisher
The Fine Gael leader said
all night and it doesn’t lead to
“One of the weird things
| as“disappointing”. places where places stay open drink”. congenital heart defect doctors Paddy McCarthy
describe as ‘Chernobyl Heart.’
Editor
that the laws we have at the
that allowing pubs and night-
an increase in public order
EXAMINER clubs to stay open for longer offences. moment is that licensed heart defects in Ukraine each year, Associate Publisher
Of the 6,000 babies born with
Grahame Curtis
“It would actually be bet-
would be better for transport,
premises – even if they
half aren’t operated on due to a
Marc-Yves Tumin
stopped serving alcohol –
as it avoids large crowds
ter in terms of transport
lack of facilities and qualified med-
News Editor
IRISH searching for taxis at the same because instead of everyone can’t stay open. Maybe places ical teams. Children Arts & Entertainment Editor
David Carter
rushing out looking for taxis
time and reduces public order
still want to stay open and
Chernobyl
people want to dance but
at the same time, that’s
concern.
Changes to Ireland’s spread out over a longer peri- they are not allowed to. International Voluntary CEO, Adi Brad Balfour
Roche says the “flying doctors” are
licensing laws are to be od of time. “Once you stop serving performing vital surgery Sales Director
reviewed next year, which “It’s an area that I think we drink, you have to close with- “They’ve gone out for almost John O’Rourke
could see pubs staying open need to change.” in half an hour or an hour, so
later. He said that Minister for they are really archaic. two weeks,” she outlined adding Classified Advertising
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that doctors are working simulta-
Mr Varadkar said that Culture Josepha Madigan is “I think we can do better neously and side-by-side “saving
while he is open to reforming considering the idea of for people who enjoy the Art Director
the licensing laws, he does authorities appointing “night nightlife.” C two babies at a time. Heidi Gross Kelley
not believe the same laws “They were performing com- Contributors
Joe Murphy, Joe Kavanagh, C.S.
need to be enforced around plex, open-heart surgery on chil- O’Brien, Mike Fitzpatrick, Seamus
Ireland, particularly in subur- dren who otherwise, would not Kelleher, Bert Randolph Sugar, John
ban and rural areas. survive.” C Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
“I think we do need to Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
have to create local control Two Arrested As Gardaí Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
around licensing laws,” he Seize Drugs In Kildare Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
Daly, Jim McKeon
added. Two men have been arrested
“People who come to following a drug seizure in Contributing Photographers
Dublin and come to other Kildare. Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
Wong
cities, and people who go Gardaí attached to the Naas
abroad from Ireland, do say Drugs Unit and assisted by regular Circulation
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that our nightlife is … can be units searched a plot of land in North East - Paul Hamrock
disappointing and that prem- Kilmeague on foot of a search war- West Coast - Jim Clement
rant on Saturday. Historian
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