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Gatland expects Irish pair to be fit
Warren Gatland expects Leinster duo Brian O'Driscoll and Sean O'Brien to be on board Monday's flight to Hong Kong, where the tour opens against the Barbarians on 1 June. O'Driscoll should play in this weekend's RaboDirect PRO12 final against Ulster after making progress in his recovery from the back spasm that ruled him out of Friday's victory over Stade Francais. ...
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Press Digest - Ireland - May 21
Tue May 21, 2013 3:07am EDT These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy: THE IRISH TIMES - Apple has used a complex web of offshore entities, including two Irish subsidiaries which it claims are not tax-resident anywhere, to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. - The government last ...
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Looted Irish treasures recovered in England
They include three 'gun money' coins, the emergency war money coined by James II from 1689-91 to pay his forces to fight William of Orange.The items, including a Bronze Age axe and spearhead and hundreds of medieval coins, will go on display today, then be stored for research.They were recovered after a tip-off from ...
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Legal minefield looms if Northern Ireland opts out of new Same-Sex Couples Bill lawyers warn
A new vaccine is being made available to prevent a disease which causes severe birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, it has been ...
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Irish P.M. Enda Kenny applauded at Boston College graduation
Boston College graduates gave Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny a standing ovation Monday while a small group of anti-abortion activists protested outside. ...
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Rugby Rewards re-launches with focus on British Irish Lions Tour
Australian Rugby is set to launch a Facebook-based Rugby Rewards program which aims to foster team advocacy ahead of the British & Irish Lions Tour. Rugby Rewards is a digital engagement program which recognises and rewards fans for their support for Australian Rugby and the Qantas Wallabies. It was first launched in 2011 as an initiative to capture the support for the Qantas Wallabies ...
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Apple called international tax dodger
A congressional report said U.S. technology giant Apple was using gaps in international tax laws to avoid paying tax on tens of billions of dollars. The report says Apple had moved $74 billion beyond the reach of the IRS from 2009-12 using a variety of loopholes to do so, some of which are used to declare tens of billions of dollars were earned unattached to any country. Apple seems to claim ...
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Sentencing in robbery cases ’relatively consistent’ new report by Irish Sentencing Information System finds
Sentencing in robbery cases has been relatively consistent, with the offence most commonly attracting a sentence of one to five years, according to a new ...
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Shatter’s robust defence of Wallace revelation causes unease in Labour
The robust defence by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter of his revelation that Independent TD Mick Wallace escaped penalty points for using a mobile phone while driving has created some unease within ...
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Coalition’s credibility at stake in new pay deal
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin. Tough exchanges between the Government and the troika on a revised Croke Park deal can be expected. Photograph: Alan ...
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NUI Galway and charity to run postgraduate cardiology course
NUI Galway plans to provide postgraduate training in cardiovascular disease prevention in a community partnership with the heart and stroke charity Cro. The new master's course in preventive cardiology will be the first of its type in the State, according to NUIG, and one of only two of its kind in the world. The founder course in this area at ...
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Are senior church figures threatening or advising politicians
Fears around this were evoked during the 1960 US presidential campaign. It prompted JFK's address on September 12th, 1960, in which he said: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ...
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Catholic hierarchy still on a learning curve in dealing with abortion
The Roman Catholic hierarchy has formally stated its position on abortion by declaring definitively that the direct and intentional killing of the unborn is immoral. Yet, my dog-eared old Maynooth textbook tells me ...
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Charity has to return €130000 of fraudulent payments made through its website
A Co Kildare-based charity has had to return more than EUR130,000 in donations in recent weeks after its website was targeted as part of a credit card ...
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Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk abortion hearings told
Psychiatrists could be seen to be the "gatekeepers to abortion" if the provision allowing for terminations where a pregnant woman is suicidal is enacted, the Oireachtas health committee has ...
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Irish politics and German filmmaking Crystals new boutique access in Northern Europe
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Crystal Cruises is expanding its uber-exclusive collection of intimate "Boutique Adventures" during summer Northern Europe cruises with two new experiences in Belfast and Berlin. The shoreside outings - none of which are available on any other cruise line - offer intimate access to Northern Ireland's political leadership and Germany's Soho -- Soho House, ...
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€18 million to be spent on Dublin City Council housing repairs
Dublin City Council receives about 50,000 requests each year from existing tenants seeking repairs to their homes. Photograph: Frank ...
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Feminism discussion opens 2013 writers festival
From left : Una Mullally, journaslist, Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the civil liberties organisation, and Louise Lowe, theatre director and playwright, on the opening night of the Dublin Writers Festival, at Smock Alley Theatre. Photograph: Eric ...
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Cabinet to approve welfare scheme to allow lone parents re-enter workforce
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will bring a memo to Cabinet today on the Social Welfare Bill, which will be published later this week. Photograph: Eric ...
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Funeral of man found in farm pit in Co Tipperary
The daughter of a man who was murdered and left in a farm pit for almost two years yesterday prayed for justice for her father as he was finally given the dignity of a proper ...
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Missing woman probably died by drowning - Coroner
A woman who disappeared in December 2010 after withdrawing EUR60 from an ATM in Dublin and taking a taxi to Howth probably died by drowning, an inquest has ...
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New class of drug targets skin cancer
The first human use of the drug, known as DZ13, was conducted at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia, but an Irish research clinician was principal investigator in the project. Details of the early phase one trial are published in the current edition of the ...
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Doctors differ patients fly and majority in Leinster House give abortion Bill a wide berth
Jerry Buttimer TD speaks to perinatal psychiatrists Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Joanne Fenton outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth ...
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Wheelchair user docked disability allowance
Frank Larkin missed signing on at his local post office in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, after cars were parked illegally in the disabled bay. Mr Larkin (41), who has spina bifida, drove around the town several times but could still not park. He managed to sign on to claim his money the following week. However, this week Mr Larkin, Long Lane, Letterkenny, received a letter from the disability ...
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Josef Pavelka ‘remembered with love’ says Ennis priest
Ennis priest Fr Ger Fitzgerald told mourners last night that Czech national Josef Pavelka (52) was among the poorest of the poor and "is remembered here with love". Fr Fitzgerald was speaking at a service at Ennis Cathedral following the removal of Mr Pavelka's body to the church where he spent much of his time while in ...
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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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