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Britvic to create combined UK and Irish unit
British soft drinks maker Britvic will close two factories and a warehouse and roll out the Fruit Shoot brand in India as part of a new strategy announced with its interim results. Proposals to deliver annual savings of £30m sterling include closing two factories in Britain and a warehouse in Northern Ireland. It will also create a combined British and Irish business unit under a single ...
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Carroll pulls out of Ireland clash
Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has been ruled out of England's friendlies against Republic of Ireland and Brazil due to a foot injury. The English Football Association confirmed the news in a statement last night, stating that no replacement is being called up by manager Roy Hodgson at the present time. "Andy Carroll has been ruled out of the England squad for the upcoming ...
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Verdict expected in Tipperary rape trial
A verdict is expected in the trial of a man accused of raping a woman at a Tipperary house.The woman has given evidence during the hearing that she understood she was going with the man to do a cleaning job. The accused man admitted having sex with the then 23-year-old woman at the house but told gardai it was consensual.He said that the woman had not shown any fear.It is alleged she was raped ...
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Focus on Irish tax laws as Kenny heads for Brussels
Ireland's tax laws will come under the spotlight again today when the Taoiseach attends a European Council meeting in Brussels.The talks follow the publication yesterday of a report by the US Senate which claims that Ireland's tax laws enabled the tech giant Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax.Enda Kenny denied the claim in the Dil and said that Ireland doesn't ...
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Press Digest - Ireland - May 22
Wed May 22, 2013 2:40am EDT These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy: THE IRISH TIMES - Ireland's reputation took a battering at a high-profile U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday where the country was labeled a "tax haven" in an investigation into the offshore tax practices ...
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Significant changes set out in revised Croke Park II accord
Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, turns away from his press briefing on the LRC negotiations on Croke Park at Government Buildings ,yesterday.Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish ...
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Irish truck driver laid to rest two years after he disappeared
St. John the Baptist in Cashel, asked God to give his family justice, Herald.ie reported. "He has given the last two years on his own and now, finally, he's back where he belongs," Michelle Ryan said. Ryan, 52, who also worked as a disc jockey under the name Mr. Moonlight, was last seen June 3, 2011. Michelle Ryan told the RTE program "Crimecall" that she found her ...
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Cancer facilities for the young still a scandal
Owen Smith , and others, for better facilities. A decade after I was there, another teenager in my position had to go through all the same obstacles in getting cancer treatment in this ...
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A strategy to stop suicide
More people die by suicide every year than are killed in road traffic incidents. But the quality of services provided to help vulnerable people are dreadfully inadequate and successive governments have failed to prioritise medical and social care. What is particularly disturbing is the high number of young men who take their own lives and the role that mental health issues, along with alcohol ...
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UPDATE 3-The Irish loophole behind Apples low tax bill
Tue May 21, 2013 9:19pm EDT By Tom Bergin LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. A U.S. Senate investigation revealed Tuesday that Apple, maker of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, channelled profits into ...
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Even Before Apple Tax Breaks Irelands Policy Had Its Critics
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Ireland Defends Tax Laws to Critics at Home and Abroad
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Almost 1m pay local property tax
The Revenue Commissioners are encouraging those who have yet to pay to file as soon as possible by logging on to revenue.ie, where their property ID number and PIN will be ...
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Government to tackle hospital waiting lists with €18m ‘intervention’ teams
The Department of Health yesterday announced plans for expert groups to carry out "interventions" in five hospitals around the country after figures were published showing significant leaps in patients' waiting times since the beginning of the ...
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Former Labour TD to stand in for press secretary
Ms Madden, a former 98fm and Newstalk journalist, was appointed deputy government press secretary on the nomination of Labour in April 2011, having previously worked for the party in a media advisory ...
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Banks’ pay savings proposals examined
He said it was not possible at this stage to reveal precise details of the savings, from 6 to 10 per cent, bar what had been put in the public ...
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The paradox of a running legend
If doctors ever get to dissect Jim McNamara's heart, they may discover that, like that of many great athletes, it's unusually large. But it would be no surprise if they also find a mysterious black stripe running across it, ...
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Revised proposals more than ‘tweaks’ to rejected deal
The revised Croke Park II proposals do not just represent a "tweaking" of the deal rejected last month. Neither are they a whole new blueprint for reducing the State's paybill drawn up on a blank sheet of ...
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Coillte harvesting rights protest walks planned
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett during a protest earlier this year against the sale of Coillte harvesting rights. He said it was clear that people cared about the sale of the country's natural resources. Photograph: Brenda ...
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Research reveals possible new way to diagnose autism early
Research attempted to make a link between a particular autistic behaviour - unusual gaze pattern - and the way that a child's brain develops in the first few years of its ...
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Abortion hearings show proposals need to be redrafted
Following the divergences in opinion among obstetricians and psychiatrists over the first two days of the hearings, it was hardly surprising that the lawyers, too, aired wide disagreements at the Oireachtas health ...
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Government will examine penalties for illegal terminations says White
Alex White, the minister of State at the Department of Health, says the Government will look at Section 19 of the proposed Bill. Photograph: Alan ...
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Shatter has shown contempt for democratic norms says FF
Mr Kenny said Alan Shatter made available information that was relevant in the case being made by Mr Wallace relating to discretion being used or not being used relating to penalty points. "During the debate I understand that Deputy Wallace could not recall that the incident had occurred," Mr Kenny added. "He clarified that fact the following ...
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CIE deficit would be €45m without assets sale and State help
The Cabinet yesterday discussed the troubled financial situation at the State transport company after Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar presented the report. Photograph: Dan ...
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Shatter’s qualified apology seen as acceptance he might have overstepped mark
Alan Shatter appeared to have drawn a line under the political row surrounding his disclosure of confidential information about Independent TD Mick Wallace last night when he made a highly qualified apology to ...
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Is Ireland living beyond its means?
Ireland is highly developed and has experienced rapid and constant economic growth in the last few decades, with many calling the country the Celtic Tiger. But recent events in the world economy and the financial situation of Europe may mean changes are afoot for the Tiger.
Ireland is one of the most developed countries in the world and has a high tax high government service economic model, it has for the last few decades substantially reduced the socio-economic inequalities in the economy and had a Gini coefficient score of 30.1 in 2000 while The Economist says we have the best quality of life in the world. This has come at a cost though, government deficits are running at over 10% of GDP, public debt accounts for over 40% of all revenue generated in the economy and the Irish population has a debt level, in relation to disposable income, that is the highest in the developed world – our personal debt in 190% more than our disposable income. All this begs the question, are we living within our means or is Ireland’s economic model unsustainable? Read more
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