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	<title>The Mire &#187; Fas</title>
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		<title>Officials set out to discover whether Fás really exists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Education and Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Social Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade and Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a modern day equivalent to the search for the holy grail an elite group of civil servants across three government departments have been asked to unravel the mystery that is Fás.
Officials from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation; the Department of  Education and Skills; and the Department of Social Protection will try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors say coma man was working for Fas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public service strike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A man doctors thought was in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually working for Fas, The Mire has learned.
Medical experts believed the unnamed individual had suffered an awful trauma and treated him as though he were in a coma since 1986.
To the astonishment of medical staff, however, the man rose from his bed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanafin to withdraw benefits from unmarried mothers</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/hanafin-to-withdraw-benefits-from-unmarried-mothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bachelor festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballybunion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Social and Family Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisdoonvarna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matchmaking festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mullingar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unmarried mothers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In what is sure to be a controversial move the Department of Social and Family Affairs is planning to withdraw state benefits from unmarried mothers who cannot prove that they have been trying to meet eligible men.
Unmarried mothers in receipt of Social Welfare payments will have to provide proof of appointments with matchmakers or attendance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fas retrain sad samurai warriors to use conkers</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/fas-retrain-sad-samurai-warriors-to-use-conkers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/fas-retrain-sad-samurai-warriors-to-use-conkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samurai swords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samurai warriors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fas has already begun the daunting task of retraining the 7000 samurai warriors whose swords were confiscated by Gardai last Monday.
&#8220;Theirs is a very specific skill and it is hard to find a suitable alternative for them,&#8221; a Fas spokesman said. &#8220;Conkers are seen as the best alternative so at the moment we are gently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost benefit analysis of state agencies fails to find any benefit</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/cost-benefit-analysis-of-state-agencies-fails-to-find-any-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/cost-benefit-analysis-of-state-agencies-fails-to-find-any-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Lenihan Minister for Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A cost benefit analysis of all state agencies which was ordered by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has had to be abandoned after it could find no discernible benefit to measure cost against.
Mr Lenihan ordered the review as part of his preparation for December&#8217;s budget. However, although a team of forensic accountants dedicated six months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists shocked by expenses scandals get counselling</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/journalists-shocked-by-expenses-scandals-get-all-expenses-paid-counselling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/journalists-shocked-by-expenses-scandals-get-all-expenses-paid-counselling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceann Comhairle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John O'Donoghue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unvouched expenses]]></category>

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The Mire has learned that many of the country&#8217;s best known journalists have been receiving counselling as they struggle to come to terms with the notion that unvouched expenses could possibly be seen in a negative light.
Recent scandals  about expenses involving Fas and Ceann Comhairle John O&#8217;Donoghue have forced journalists to reflect on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunities in obesity for musclebound carers</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/opportunities-in-obesity-for-musclebound-carers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/opportunities-in-obesity-for-musclebound-carers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity epidemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safe Pass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bouncers and other musclebound security workers who have lost employment in the downturn were offered hope today when FAS announced funding  to retrain them to look after the ever increasing number of obese people who are now too fat to look after themselves.
Apparently the growing incidence of obesity in those requiring care has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coughlan &#8216;completely devastated&#8217; by Cowen&#8217;s confidence in her</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/coughlan-completely-devastated-by-cowens-confidence-in-her/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/coughlan-completely-devastated-by-cowens-confidence-in-her/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial regulator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golden handshake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Coughlan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rody Molloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanaiste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a clear signal that he has no confidence in Tanaiste Mary Coughlan, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has stated that he has full confidence in her. Devastatingly Mr Cowen described Ms Coughlan as  an “excellent Minister, hard-working and a very good member of Cabinet”.  He dismissed suggestions that her position had become untenable.
Previously Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making bribes work in the new economy</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/making-bribes-work-in-the-new-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/making-bribes-work-in-the-new-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enterprise Mireland and Fas are to hold a series of evening courses around the country on Making Bribes Work in the New Economy. A spokesman for Enterprise Mireland said it had received numerous calls from people who are increasingly confused as to who, how and how much to bribe.
&#8220;So much has changed in so little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training the new unemployed</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/training-the-new-unemployed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesman for third level, VEC and Fas education and training bodies has strongly defended the delay in rolling out course places for the new unemployed, saying that the training situation facing them now is different to anything they have ever had to deal with before.

“You have to remember that our track record up to [...]]]></description>
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