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Questions remain over how minor traffic incident formed part of briefing to Shatter
While any residual threat to Shatter's position receded following the hour-long debate on the issue on Tuesday night, a number of questions still remain about how a relatively trivial encounter between garda and a Dil TD percolated its way to the very top of the force and formed part of a briefing to the Minister for ...
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US Airways begins seasonal service to Shannon Ireland
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways customers now have convenient access to a second destination in Ireland as the airline begins daily, non-stop, summer service from its international gateway at Philadelphia today following a four-year hiatus. The airline will operate flights to the "Gateway to the West of Ireland" on 176-seat dual-class Boeing 757-200 aircraft until Sept. 6, 2013. The seasonal ...
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INTO tells members to accept new deal
The leadership of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) this evening said it will be recommending their members accept the revised Croke Park II proposals agreed upon with the Labour Relations ...
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Mandatory micro-chipping of dogs to come into effect from 2016
Veterinary nurse Lorna Carr with a microchipping "gun" and a microchip at the DSPCA sanctuary in Rathfarnham, DubliPhotograph: Frank Miller/The Irish ...
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Number of beaches with Blue Flag status drops
Patricia Oliver . The classification of the bathing water is now based on water samples from a four year period instead of results from a single bathing season. "As a result, there was a predicted decrease in Blue Flags awarded in 2013," said Ms Oliver. The awards were presented by Minister for the ...
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Accidental death verdicts in Tit Bonhomme inquest
Verdicts of accidental death have been returned by a jury at the inquest into the deaths of five fishermen who died when their trawler, the Tit Bonhomme collided with an island at the entrance to Glandore Harbour in West Cork 15 months ...
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Ex-priest on child sex abuse charges can be named judge rules
William Carney , aged 62, is charged with 34 counts of indecent assault of eight boys and two girls, at locations in Dublin and north east Leinster from 1969 until 1989. Yesterday at Cloverhill District Court, Judge Grinne Malone lifted an earlier gag order prohibiting the media from naming the 62-year-old who currently has no fixed address. Her ruling came following submissions from lawyers ...
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Dundon application for trial delay adjourned to next week
In seeking the delay Dundon claims that he cannot get a fair trial because his lawyers have not been given sufficient time to go through the large volume of material, including CCTV footage and documentation, about the case furnished to them by the ...
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Ireland says working on new post-bailout economic plan
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's finance minister said on Wednesday he planned to issue a long-term economic plan aimed at keeping the country on track after the strictures imposed by a bailout are removed next year. Rescued by Europe and the IMF in ...
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UPDATE 2-Ireland says will not be U.S. whipping boy on tax
Wed May 22, 2013 3:52pm EDT * Irish government calls Senate report "wrong and misleading" * Ireland forced to defend tax system for second day * Minister calls for clampdown on multinational tax planning By Carmel Crimmins and Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - Ireland's finance minister said the country would not be the "whipping boy" for what he called a flawed U.S. ...
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Pair jailed for life over Kerry bog murder
A Brazilian man and an Irish man have been found guilty of the murder of a 28-year-old Brazilian man who had been living in Gort Co. Galway and whose body was found floating in a bog in north Kerry in March ...
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Irish prime minister defensive about tax code
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny defended his country's tax code as European leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss corporations that dodge taxes. "I'd like to repeat that Ireland's corporate tax rate is statute based, is very clear and very transparent, and we do not do special deals with any individual companies in regard to that tax rate," Kenny told reporters ...
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Unilever Ireland to seek 40 redundancies
Unilever has said it is to seek around 40 redundancies from its Irish operations in Citywest, Dublin. In a statement, the company said it was seeking the cuts in an attempt to create a "more competitive organisationin response to an unrelentingly challenging retail environment". Unilever currently employs 190 people in Ireland. It operates a number of brands including; Lyons ...
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Extra tickets for Donegal in Ballybofey
Donegal have been given 1,000 extra tickets for Sunday’s Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final with Tyrone in Ballybofey after the Red Hand failed to sell their full allocation. Tyrone had argued that their 5,750 tickets allocation would not be enough to satisfy demand but after returning 1,000 tickets, 40 Donegal clubs will now benefit. Tyrone PRO Eunan Lindsay originally ...
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Irish PM Kenny defends tax regime
Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax ...
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Taoiseach defends taxation regime
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax ...
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You Cant Blame Ireland for Apples Tax-Avoidance Either
Joe O'Malley and his sheep dog Floss check on his sheep grazing on the common land on Clare Island, County Mayo, Ireland September 23, 2009. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters) While being grilled in a Senate committee hearing ...
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Ireland branded tax haven ahead of EU summit on tax evasion
Ireland faced further questions over its corporate tax rate on Wednesday after US senators branded the country as a ‘tax haven’. Those remarks came during ...
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Kenny Ireland at forefront of fight for tax transparency
Tasoieach Enda Kenny has brushed off attacks on Ireland's tax regime for helping multinationals avoid billions in tax - insisting he was backing plans for global tax transparency and an end to tax havens.Ireland's low corporate tax rates have been identified in inquiries into how companies such as Google and Apple arrange their tax affairs to reduce liabilities to a minimum.But, ...
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Business as usual at Tipperary hotel under provisional liquidation
The group that has been appointed as a provisional liquidator to a Co Tipperary hotel with 75 weddings on the books, including one tomorrow, has said it is "business as usual" at the hotel.PREM Group has been appointed to manage the Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf Resort, Limerick Junction, Co Tipperary, which has been placed into provisional liquidation. Jim Murphy, Managing Director, ...
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Riot of colour at Texaco kids’ art awards
Winners in this year's Texaco Children's Art Competition pictured with their artwork at the awards ceremony was held in CityWest today. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish ...
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Work on Grafton Street to start after June bank holiday
The work will take 18 months to complete. The street will stay open to pedestrians during this period but access for delivery vans will be ...
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Trawler changed course before collision inquest told
This week an inquest into the deaths of the five men heard evidence from marine surveyor, Eoghan O'Toole from the Dept of Transport that the Tit Bonhomme was on its correct setting for Union Hall up until it was about half a nautical mile from Glandore ...
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EU report reveals long-term and youth unemployment problem in Ireland
Ireland continues to have the second worst long-term unemployment figures in the European Union. New figures from EuroStat show that the rate of long-term unemployment in Ireland in 2012 was 61.7%. That is compared to the EU average of 44.6%, and only Slovakia with a figure of 67.3% is worse.Alicia O' Rourke of the EU said youth unemployment in Ireland continues to be an ongoing problem.She ...
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Taoiseach We do not do special deals on corporate tax
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he will be making clear at a European Council meeting today that Ireland is not a tax haven.Mr Kenny is attending a summit of EU leaders in Brussels where tax evasion and fraud are being discussed.The meeting comes after the Apple Chief Executive, Tim Cook, told the US Senate his company had negotiated a 2% tax rate with the Irish Government.However the ...
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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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