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The Minister for Finance approved increases in the salaries of NAMA Board Members and the Chairperson of the NAMA (National Asset Management Agency) Board after they were appointed to NAMA.

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Deirdra de Burca resigned from the Green Party this morning. In a letter to party leader John Gormley, Senator de Burca said that she could no longer support the party because it had "abandoned [its] political values... and become no more than an extension of the Fianna Fail party". De Burca said that the party leadership was unwilling to captitalise on Fianna Fail's reliance on Green Party support in the Dail.

Ireland's credibility as a 'knowledge economy' is being spoiled by the Irish
 government's ineptitude in matters technological writes Malachy Browne

Today, the five finalists in RTE’s ‘Storyland 2’ competition showcase the first episode in their series of     film shorts. The webisodes are screened exclusively on the RTE Storyland website. Each of the finalists has a dedicated page on the site, including blogs, details of the cast, crew and characters, image galleries and links to social media.

From the early 1960’s, American amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman captured on film his 30 years of world travel, including a visit to Dublin in 1961. When he died, he left his collection to the Indiana University, who digitised his photographs. The photos are presented in the photo gallery below.

The US Supreme Court has drawn the ire of US President Barack Obama and a host of opinion writers this week by overturning restrictions on corporate political advertising in the weeks immediately preceding an election. The ruling was carried by five to four in "Citizen United v. Federal Elections Commission".

Yesterday, Barack Obama devoted the entirety of his weekly videocast to the ruling. He described the decision as “a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” and that he “can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest”.

Public opinion in Israel and Palestine suggests that a two-state solution to the conflict should be easier to achieve than power sharing in Northern Ireland, a British academic says. Polling also shows that most people living in the Middle East want peace. By Malachy Browne

As feared, Dublin City Council(DCC) last night voted to increase rent in social housing, to raise bin charges and to remove waivers on bin charges for poorer tenants. A two per cent reduction in commercial rates was also agreed. (Below, see video of Budget protests and the budget meeting)