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# Keep It Down

This year
2023
Late night venues to get grant worth €70,000 to help them reduce noise
The €2m scheme has been introduced ahead of late licensing reforms.
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Jul 18th 2023, 5:28 PM
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A multi-million dollar project is working on making New York City a quieter place
The project involves trying to catalogue all the disparate noises that can be heard regularly in the city.
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Jul 2nd 2017, 8:00 AM
TD says garda helicopter causing 'noise pollution' in Dublin at night
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said gardaí operate a noise reduction policy during night hours.
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May 4th 2015, 7:30 AM
You should only be listening to one hour of (quiet) music a day
More than one BILLION people are at risk of damaging their hearing because their music is too loud and they listen to it for too long.
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Feb 28th 2015, 2:07 PM
Woman's taste for loud music prompts four arrests in 26 hours
The fourth time, though, the New Hampshire woman was arrested for throwing a frying pan at her nephew.
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Sep 2nd 2012, 12:57 PM
Wozniacki: Officials need to cut out the grunting and shrieking and the what not
Caroline Wozniacki says that tennis players that grunt during matches earn an unfair advantage, and it should be banned.
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Oct 26th 2011, 2:02 PM