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LCP expands into Ireland
Consulting actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) has furthered its international expansion with the establishment of offices in Ireland following the merger with HLD Actuarial Consultants (HLD), creating Lane Clark & Peacock Ireland. The Ireland office follows the opening of the Netherlands office last month, and joins LCP’s presence in the UK, Belgium and Switzerland. Based ...
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Irish pension funds feel the pinch as returns tumble
Irish pension funds fell by 1.3% in 2007, the Irish Association of Pension Funds’ (IAPF) annual asset allocation survey has revealed, bringing assets down to €86.6bn at the end of 2007 from €87.7 at the end of 2006. Despite recent falls, however, the total value of assets managed by Irish pension funds has almost doubled from €44.8bn in the five years since the end ...
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Note of caution for Ireland’s trustees
Irish pension funds lost €10 billion in the first three weeks of 2008, according to figures released from Mercer. This news follows a particularly poor year for Irish funds which, despite a strong first half, saw them suffer a €4bn loss in value, with the average pension fund losing close to 4%. Mercer, however, warned funds against taking any ';rash decisions'; in ...
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Compulsion not the answer in Ireland
Butchers, florists and hairdressers in Ireland would be more inclined to set up a pension if the monetary benefits were simplified in the current voluntary system rather than through the introduction of mandatory pensions, according to a new ...
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Irish cruise past Wales in rugby cup warmup
DUBLIN (Reuters) -- Ireland began their rugby union World Cup buildup with a comfortable 35-12 victory over an inexperienced Welsh side on Saturday, outscoring the visitors by five tries to two. The home side never found top gear, but were too strong for an experimental Welsh lineup featuring six uncapped players in their 22-man squad. "These games have been called friendlies, and ...
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Irish jockey Kelly dies from head injuries
DUBLIN (Reuters) -- Leading Irish jump jockey Kieran Kelly died in hospital Tuesday after suffering severe head injuries in a fall last week, the Irish Turf Club said Wednesday. The jockey, aged 25, had been on a life support machine in a ublin hospital since the accident at the Kilbeggan Races in Westmeath last Friday. He sustained severe injuries when Balmy Native came down in the Joe ...
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Hard to stay optimistic living in Hatch Hall
Hatch Hall , those trying to "keep busy" and those tired of trying. Many have spent years in the asylum system, living on EUR19.10 a week (it's EUR9.60 for children), not allowed to work or study and subject to movement or deportation at short ...
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Rich Americans Scooping Up Irish Estates
John Malone is among a growing number of Americans returning to their Irish roots and scooping up mansions and castles after the worst real-estate crash in western ...
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Irish gran locks three suspected thieves in farmyard
A 64-year-old Irish grandmother locked three suspected thieves into a yard, promised to come back with the key and then called police. Her daughter says Ann Curtis also got some help from her neighbors in Clegg, County Meath, who gathered in front of the gate before police officers arrived to make sure the men did not escape, the Irish Independent reported. The incident occurred Tuesday ...
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“For most people who have chemo it’s no big deal” says man who sails around Ireland between bouts of chemotherapy
Chris Egan and David Bevan, who have both battled cancer, plotting a course for their round Ireland trip aboard the Inizi in aid of cancer ...
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Time limit a key issue arising from health committee hearings on abortion
Dr Eamonn Moloney, consultant psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital; Prof Veronica O'Keane, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital and TCD; and Dr Yolande Ferguson, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital, attending Monday's hearing of the Oireachtas health committee. Photograph: Gareth ...
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Shatter’s mistake in the Wallace saga was purely political
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at this week's citizenship ceremony at the Convention Centre, Dublin. "Shatter was seen initially (and still sees himself) as an energetic and reforming Minister but his style and personality in office have depleted his political capital." Photograph: Bryan ...
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Living in Hatch Hall
Hatch Hall , those trying to "keep busy" and those tired of trying. Many have spent years in the asylum system, living on EUR19.10 a week (it's EUR9.60 for children), not allowed to work or study and subject to movement or deportation at short ...
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Political system tied up in trivia ignores the most serious issues
The propensity of the Irish political system to tie itself up in knots over arcane or even trivial issues, while gliding over serious matters that have a vital bearing on the country's wellbeing, has again been in evidence over the past few ...
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A hazel tide ebbing and flowing
On its way to the shore the boreen tilts down beside a creggan, a sandstone outcrop like a last, rocky toenail of the mountain. Abruptly steep beside the lane, the ridge sometimes offers a wild silhouette between me and the morning clouds: a sitting hare, a wind-blown ewe with a mane like a wild Apache. And couched in the slope between rock and fence - an old one, tilting and bound with ...
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ASTI and TUI seek further talks on improving Haddington Road deal
Taoiseach Enda Kenny: "Those unions who have now agreed with the Haddington Road statement will have those agreements honoured, and those unions that do not will be subject to legislation." Photograph: Julien Behal/PA ...
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A rock pool for life to cling to
We are combating new threats of coastal erosion and flooding by armouring our shores. We do this mostly with gabions, those increasingly familiar conglomerations of cut rock or manufactured blocks, bound together with wire ...
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Towards a deal on public pay
Securing voluntary agreement from public service workers for savings amounting to EUR1billion over three years was never going to be easy. And so it has proved. A majority of union members rejected the terms of a renegotiated Croke Park deal last month and risked statutory cuts to pay and pensions, along with widespread industrial unrest. Rather than blunder into immediate confrontation, ...
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Shatter tried breath test twice says Kenny
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter made two attempts to complete a breathalyser test when he was stopped at a Garda checkpoint some four years ago, Taoiseach Enda Kenny revealed ...
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Bill O’Herlihy lobbying firm says it no longer has Government links
The public relations company owned by veteran sports broadcaster Bill O'Herlihy has withdrawn a claim that it advises the Government after being accused of a potential conflict of interest by an anti-smoking ...
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Creche inspection reports to be made public within weeks
The Government is to fast-track childcare reforms which will allow parents to see inspection reports into their children's creches, following allegations of mistreatment of children in three ...
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Action adjourned in case involving sausage firm
The High Court has adjourned an action by a director of a well-known sausage making business aimed at preventing her husband and mother-in-law from firing her and removing her as a ...
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Pakistan’s cricket team welcomed in west Dublin
Mohammad Sufyan Ahmed (2) from Clonee on the recieving end of a bowl from the world's tallest international cricketer (7ft 1) Mohammad Irfan, of the Pakistan national cricket team, during a visit by members of the team to the Castaheany Educate Together National School, in Ongar. Photograph: Alan ...
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Drugs worth €1.7m seized at house in Dublin
Cannabis herb worth an estimated EUR700,000 was seized at a house in Donabate in Dublin today, along with EUR1 million worth of ecstasy tablets. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA ...
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Watch This Irish Woman Freak Out While “Riding” A Virtual Roller Coaster
It’s apparent once again that virtual reality has finally reached the point to where it actually feels pretty real. Now we might not be so far away from a Lawnmower Man-like future. ...
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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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