Canada based, Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of popular BlackBerry family of smartphones, is set to take over Irish mobile software maker NewBay developer for an unannounced price.

The developer creates photo, video and social-networking tools fro several devices. Even as the company has not announced the pricing details of the deal, the amount is believed to be about $100 million, according to a report by Reuters.

Michael McGimpsey has supported the thoughts of a senior health official's over the fact that nearly 4,000 jobs would be cut in heath department if Stormont's draft budget is approved.

Regional Health and Social Care Board chief executive, John Compton, said waiting times might as well get stretched too.

It was further pronounced on Wednesday the health budget would increase by £326m.

But the health minister assured that Mr Compton's comment might prove to be of "several million pounds short".

A Belfast south woman whose father has passed away lately due to mouth cancer has expressed in the early hours of discovery is solution to defeating the sickness. Margaret Newell (43) was discussing out as component of Mouth Cancer Consciousness Week starting from November 14 - 20, being administer by Ireland‘s Action Cancer Northern.

The Dunmurry lady lost George Flannigan (76), her father, in this summer.

According to officials, a bomb appeared was meant for passing police detonated under a bridge in rural Northern Ireland Saturday evening without causing any injuries.

Police were trying to determine who was responsible for the 5:30 p. m. blast on Carrickrovaddy Road between Belleek and Newtownhamilton, The Daily Telegraph has reported.

According to new study, teenage moms are more likely to give birth ahead of time and have underweight infants.

The research also showed that one quarter of teenage moms get pregnant again before they turn 20, and that they are at particular risk of a preterm birth the second time around.

These teens are 93% more likely than adult women to give birth prematurely.

Eircom the largest internet service provider (ISP) of Ireland is cracking a whip on all the illegal activities happening under the nose.

The ISP has started to release threatening letters to the ones who are accused of sharing copyrighted material wanting them to surrender out of their own guilty conscience.

And with the recent claim of three strikes and 'off you go' mark has invited a threatening notice in the internet policy.

Implying the three-strike rule an Irish company Eircom has become the first ISP to execute this practice.

This means that if one is supposedly caught downloading illegal files, he will warned several times, before disconnecting from the net by the ISP.

It actually is a different situation in Ireland where the only condition comes in the form of warning, which if happens thrice, then that is it. The accused will be banned from Internet, with no actual proof needed.

JG Farrell, the popular author has won the Booker prize which is an award for books published in 1970 but not honored at that time. The award winner was missed out in that year because of the rules of publications dates were changed.

The judges had awarded the novel which was published in the year of 1919 at the Irish war of independence. Farrell has won the prize for 1973 for the Siege of Krishnapur. He was died in the year 1979. He had faced issues winning in the 1970 award otherwise he would have been the first author to win the Booker prize twice.

The continuous obstacles caused at the development of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) is facing hiccups as the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) snatches away its digital TV broadcasting licence offer from the OneVision consortium.

This action has left enough options open for the Liberty Global to move on in.

It is confirmed from various reports that Liberty Global seemingly remains interested about the prospect of taking on the DTT licence single handed similar to likes of many such platforms of the same arena.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Scotland has said that all the airports in Scotland and Northern Ireland are closed from 0700 BST due to the volcanic ash risk. Glasgow, Prestwick and Derry are supposed to be closed all the day and Inverness to be closed at morning and Belfast at afternoon.

The Authorities have also advised the passengers to ask for updates about their fights as the situation is changing.

A new study examined on 8 undergraduate women reveals that climbing staircase twice in a day helped to keep them fit.

Experts advise people to use stairs and avoid escalators to stay fit.

Colin Boreham, the professor from the University College Dublin Institute for Sport and Health said that, climbing stairs is an activity which does not require any particular device or any extra time, it just required willingness to avoid using lifts. The results related to this activity are remarkable.

An increase in mumps-related testicle problems has been reported by Urologists at a hospital in Ireland, among teenage boys and young men.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer (IE) is seeking a surge in the present browser market, the Irish metrics firm StatCounter reports.

It is believed that in India IE already witnessed a dip of around 20% compared to Google's Chrome or Mozilla's Firefox browser; all are at a steady rise.

Irish state airline, Aer Lingus has announced that it will lay off 230 staff from its cabin crew under a new cost cutting plan. The government has a stake of 25 per cent in the airline which is planning to restructure it operations.

The move comes after the cabin crew rejected a plan which aimed at saving €97million in cost cutting measures. The new plan includes new pay levels and working conditions. The chief executive of the airline, Christoph Mueller indicated that the new plan will be hard on its cabin crew.

The Irish Stock Exchange declares the year 2009 as the busiest trading year of the history, after the year 2008. In a review the Irish stock Exchange has found that 2.3 million shares have been traded in the year 2009, as compared to 2.5 million shares in the last year.

As compared to the year 2008, the value of the shares has declined sharply to more than half to €53.4 billion, indicating the fall in the share values in the period of end of the year 2008 and starting of the year 2009.

Jobs of over 200 people are being axed as the Glen Dimplex, the parent company of Bitech Engineering has decided to shut down Bitech Engineering.

John King, the SIPTU organizer has criticised the decision and declared it devastating as per the workers' concern. As expected the members at the plant were annoyed with the decision and reacted angrily over it.

SIPTU has informed that it will be going for every possibility to retain as many of Bitech jobs as possible.

As has been recently announced by the company, Wolseley has agreed to divest 100% of its stake in Wolseley Ireland Holdings Limited to WIBHM, which is a private investor backed firm, for a total of 23.8 Million Pounds. WIHL is inclusive of the largest plumbers' merchant in the entire Republic of Ireland, Heatmerchants, which is also designated as the largest distributor of oil heating equipment across the country.

In addition, the company is also putting up for sale its Brooks business, which is in Northern Ireland. Collectively, the businesses operate via a network of as many as 67 branches and nearly 600 employees.

London, Jan 9 : Northern Ireland Unionist politician Iris Robinson''s love affair with a teenager is said to have threatened to wreck Ulster''s fragile power-sharing deal.

First Minister Peter Robinson, 61, who has been left shell-shocked, was in talks with lawyers amid claims that he failed to alert watchdogs when his wife allegedly broke parliamentary rules by arranging financial help for a lover 39 years her junior.

Iris, MP for Strangford, was given 50,000 pounds by two wealthy property developers, both family friends, which she handed to Kirk McCambley, then 19, to set up a cafe business she had identified for him.

Dublin (Ireland), Dec. 25 : Two more bishops said Friday they were offering their resignation to Pope Benedict XVI in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal in Ireland.

Auxiliary Bishops of Dublin Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field said in a statement they had informed the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, on Christmas Eve of their intention to quit.