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Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica visiting Monroe County June 3-7 The Daily Jeffersonian WOODSFIELD - The Moving Wall, a traveling, half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will make a stop at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Woodsfield on June 3-7. The Moving Wall has been traversing the United States for more than 36 years after it was first displayed in Tyler, Texas, in October 1984. The visit to Monroe County is sponsored by Veterans in Distress, an organiza...

AOC PAYS TRIBUTE TO OLYMPIC SWIMMING GREAT JOHN KONRADS 04/26/21 The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has paid tribute to the late John Konrads, Olympic gold medallist from the Rome 1960 Games, who passed away yesterday aged 78. In a career that saw him set 26 world records in the pool between 200m and 1500m, his signature moment came in the 1500m freestyle in Rome where he won gold, as well as claiming bronze in the 400m freestyle and bronze as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team ...

Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021 16:10 "The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 offers more robust protections for Irish whistleblowers than available in other countries." Photo: Getty Images Analysis:  Ireland has one of the strongest whistleblower protection legislations in the world, and incentivises workers to make disclosures internally, but it also permits workers to go outside their organisation if they wish to do so. Last weeks RTÉ Investigates revelations shocked the nation. It emerg...

Chris Yates, managing director, Cafe Murano Hospitality has been treated awfully throughout 2020. The campaign for a minister for hospitality is vitally important. Property costs (rent and rates) in central London are unsustainable. This crisis and the impact on high streets should lead to revision of business rate structure and the commercial lease model. Fixed rents with five-yearly upward only reviews should be a thing of the past. During 2020 many sensible landlords have moved to turnover r...

Turnover rents For better or worse, the impact of the pandemic is having a profound effect on the commercial property market. Since the lease forfeiture moratorium was introduced last year, tenants and landlords have been trying to negotiate new lease terms that suit both parties; often unsuccessfully - a recent study carried out by commercial property restructuring specialist Cedar Dean found that 77% of hospitality operators are currently being forced to look at restructuring or insolvency op...

International Civil Society Letter to President Zelensky re. Draft Law #3450 OPEN LETTER SENT BY EMAIL AND POST TO: Mr. Zelensky, President of Ukraine 16th February 2021 Dear President Zelensky, We, the undersigned organisations join our voices to this letter from the Board of Trustees of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) to urge your leadership to defend the integrity of the law that protects those who risk their careers to fight corruption and block proposed draft Bill which unde...

London’s Koya is taking its famed udon noodles nationwide with the launch of a meal kit that fits through letterboxes. Delivered by ‘Koya Mail’, the Omiyage box will be available from 15 February and contains two portions of dashi broth and udon noodles in a Koya-branded wool-insulated package.  Handmade the day before dispatch, the udon and dashi are vacuum-packed to give a seven-day shelf life.  Each box will come with a recipe card from Koya’s head chef...

Premium Content Subscriber only Tributes have flown in for valued community member and former businessman John Devitt ahead of his Wednesday funeral. John, best known as the man behind Style Shoes and his lifetime involvement with the Warwick Golf Club, passed away last Wednesday, aged 77, after a long battle with illness. Golfing friend Garry Adcock said the mate he fondly referred to as Jack would be sorely missed by the Warwick community. “I’ve known Jack all my life and he was ...

Ireland’s rating slips in 2020 international corruption index Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks Ireland in 20th place out of 180 countries across the globe, behind the Netherlands, Germany and UK but ahead of France, Spain and Portugal Transparency International Ireland said outstanding recommendations from the Mahon planning tribunal, which concluded in 2012, should be progressed. Sat, 30 Jan, 2021 - 19:30 Maresa Fagan Ireland’s rating in an international corruption index slipped ...

Ireland’s score on an international Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) deteriorated last year, according to a report to be released today.