# midlands - Monday 4 April, 2022
# Courts
# Courts
Justice Tara Burns sent the jury of seven men and five women out to deliberate earlier this afternoon.
# midlands - Friday 25 March, 2022
# Midlands
# Midlands
Counsel for one of the accused put it to the garda that 16 minutes passed in an interview room before a recording device was switched on.
# midlands - Tuesday 22 March, 2022
# Midlands
# Midlands
The first accused (22) told gardaí that the then 17-year-old girl consented and that nothing really happened, “but you never know”.
# midlands - Monday 21 March, 2022
# Midlands
# Midlands
The doctor performed the examination at a Sexual Assault Treatment Unit five hours after the alleged incidents took place.
# midlands - Wednesday 16 March, 2022
# Midlands Rape Trial
# Midlands Rape Trial
One of the four accused first told gardaí none of them had sex with the girl, then later told gardaí they all had sex with her.
# midlands - Tuesday 8 March, 2022
# Midlands Rape Trial
# Midlands Rape Trial
A witness, who was a friend of the complainant, told the court today that she kept saying “there was six of them, there was nothing she could do”.
# midlands - Monday 7 March, 2022
# Midlands
# Midlands
The woman at the centre of the case told the court today that she had been “badgered” for oral sex.
# midlands - Thursday 3 March, 2022
# Court
# Court
The woman has alleged she was attacked in a car by the men in December 2016.
# midlands - Wednesday 2 March, 2022
# Peat Sake
# Peat Sake
The move from the environmental watchdog comes in response to a complaint from an environmental NGO about illegal cutting.
# midlands - Monday 28 February, 2022
# Central Criminal Court
# Central Criminal Court
The trial is expected to last six weeks and will take place in Croke Park.
# midlands - Thursday 13 January, 2022
# Peat Sake
The cutting of peat has frequently taken place at 30 protected sites over the past decade, writes Niall Sargent of Noteworthy No ministerial consents have been granted by the State to allow cutting in any of the protected raised bog network sites Just 1% of Ireland's active raised bogs remain after decades of peat-cutting and land reclamation
# midlands - Sunday 14 November, 2021
# Bogs
# Bogs
The company has radically changed in a short amount of time. But how did they do it? And at what cost?
# midlands - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# Annual Report
# Annual Report
Almost 10,000 people accessed MQI’s services last year with almost 50,000 meals given to homeless people on a take-away basis.
# midlands - Friday 1 October, 2021
# New Tech Uni
# New Tech Uni
The new university will have a student population of 14,000 across six counties.
# midlands - Wednesday 5 May, 2021
# Midlands
# Midlands
AIT President Professor Ciarán Ó Catháin described today’s announcement as a “historic day” for the region.
# midlands - Thursday 4 March, 2021
# Portarlington
# Portarlington
The searches were carried out as part of an investigation into organised crime, drugs and firearms trafficking.
# midlands - Sunday 3 January, 2021
# Dognapping
# Dognapping
The number of dog thefts has increased over the past year.
# midlands - Monday 12 October, 2020
# Midlands
# Midlands
The seizures were made at three premises in Laois, Meath and Westmeath.
# midlands - Friday 7 August, 2020
# Regional Restrictions
# Regional Restrictions
The Government announced the measures on the back of NPHET advice following a spike in cases in recent days.
# midlands - Wednesday 27 May, 2020
# Armed Gang
# Armed Gang
The men, arrested in Clara today, are understood to be Brazilian.
# midlands - Monday 23 March, 2020
# Midlands
# Midlands
The men were arrested by members of the Special Detective Unit in the midlands yesterday.
# midlands - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Springfield
# Springfield
13.6 mm of rain was recorded at Shannon Airport yesterday.
# midlands - Monday 30 December, 2019
# Downfall
# Downfall
A number of senior members of the cartel had fled to the Midlands city in a bid to rebuild their crumbling empire.
# midlands - Thursday 21 February, 2019
# Unfair Dismissal
# Unfair Dismissal
The patient’s grand-daughter alleged that on 26 April 2018 the care-worker had verbally threatened her grandmother.
# midlands - Saturday 5 January, 2019
# Tubber
# Tubber
The proposal suffered a setback during the recession, but recent developments have bought the project back into local conversation.
# midlands - Friday 9 November, 2018
# Violence Reduction
# Violence Reduction
The unit has the ability to house nine criminals.
# midlands - Wednesday 24 October, 2018
# Offaly Ambitious
# Offaly Ambitious
Midlands Airport development has now signed a memorandum of understanding with InSite Bavaria.
# Redundancy
# Redundancy
The announcement comes as the company shifts from peat usage to fast-track renewable energy.
# midlands - Tuesday 23 October, 2018
# Midlands
# Midlands
A restructuring of the company to decarbonise its business over ten years is expected to be announced tomorrow.
# midlands - Thursday 12 April, 2018
# Fáilte Ireland
# Fáilte Ireland
The campaign wants to entice visitors to experience the region’s nature and food.
# midlands - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Pornography
# Pornography
Gardaí said they would not be commenting.
# midlands - Saturday 17 February, 2018
# Sexual Health
# Sexual Health
There is no clinic within an hour of the Midlands .
# midlands - Friday 16 February, 2018
# Midlands
# Midlands
Fine Gael TD Peter Burke has said that prompt treatment was critical in terms of young adults’ body image.
# midlands - Monday 22 January, 2018
# Impassable
# Impassable
The midlands was hardest hit over the weekend and some areas are still flooded.
# midlands - Wednesday 29 November, 2017
# Rural Ireland
# Rural Ireland
Midlands Simon Community’s emergency shelters are running at a deficit of €176,000 a year.
# midlands - Monday 13 November, 2017
# Athlone
# Athlone
The incident happened over the weekend.
# midlands - Sunday 3 September, 2017
# History
# History
A Maynooth professor has said history may be downplaying the level of violence directed towards women during the conflict.
# midlands - Thursday 27 April, 2017
# Going Green
# Going Green
Renewable energy in Ireland is currently predominantly generated from the wind.
# midlands - Friday 3 March, 2017
# Investigation
# Investigation
The alleged assault happened in a midlands town on 27 December.
# midlands - Monday 23 January, 2017
# Jailhouse Dosh
# Jailhouse Dosh
The Irish Prison Service has paid out over €27 million in pocket money to prisoners since 2009.
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