Clontarf-based precious metals explorer, Persian Gold, has applied for a discovery certificate at the Chah-e-Zard gold and silver project in Iran.
The application is to mine 160,000 ounces of gold and 1 million ounces of silver. The company is also finalizing an application for a discovery certificate for the Dalli copper and gold project in 200km southwest of Tehran.
ran possesses some of the largest natural resource deposits in the world particularly in the Tethyan belt, which stretches from Turkey over Iran to Pakistan. Largely unexplored in the last 30 years, Iran has low operating costs and excellent infrastructure with a highly educated and well trained workforce.
One of Cork's leading businessmen, Joseph Clayton Love Junior, has paid up E1.4m in defaulted tax and fines and non-declaration of income arising from the Ansbacher scandal, the latest Defaulters List from the Revenue Commissioners shows.
Businessworld.ie reports that Monroe Mullingar Ltd, an entertainment promoter based in Westmeath, which once had Joe Dolan as a director, paid E3.85m in a Revenue investigation case and Bright Blades, a clothing wholesalers based in Dublin 4, paid E3.5m in unpaid taxes and fines. Brian Hanratty, a retired confectioner and toy wholesaler from Co Louth, paid up E2.17m in taxes and fines related to bogus non-resident account investigations by the Revenue. A Donegal butcher, Bernard McCarron, paid E1.01m in unpaid taxes and fines.
The Health Service Executive has said some services at five of its six acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry will be curtailed under a plan to centralise the treatment of patients who need complex acute care at Cork University Hospital.
But the HSE has given a commitment that all six of the region's acute hospitals will remain open providing on-going emergency medical care, following what it describes as a fundamental restructuring of hospital services. RTE News reports that the HSE has been working on this re-structuring of the six acute hospitals in Cork and Kerry for the past three years and this morning it published a plan which it says will take up to six years to implement.
The executive intends to centralise the treatment of patients who need complex acute care at Cork University Hospital. All five of the other hospitals - the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria in Cork City; Mallow Hospital in North Cork and Bantry in West Cork, along with Kerry General Hospital - will remain open providing ongoing emergency medical care.
Clontarf-based precious metals explorer, Persian Gold, has applied for a discovery certificate at the Chah-e-Zard gold and silver project in Iran.
