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Rabbitte US can make own conclusions about tax system
The Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has defended Ireland's tax policy ahead of an international digital conference in the capital today.Rabbitte was speaking before the launch of the Digital Agenda Assembly at Dublin Castle, billed as the final and largest event of the Irish Presidency of the EU.Around 600 delegates will meet to discuss a range of topics including the opportunities ...
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Jill Meagher killer gets life
A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Irish woman that outraged Australia's second-largest city.The death of Jill Meagher as she walked home from a bar in September shocked the city of Melbourne. A week later, 30,000 people took to the streets near the lane where she was strangled to rally against violence toward women.Ms Meagher, 29, was ...
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Serial rapist Adrian Bayley jailed for life in Melbourne over murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher
A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Irish woman that outraged Australia's second-largest ...
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Sentences for homicide too lenient families of victims say
found just over 90 per cent of victims' families believed sentences were lenient or excessively lenient and more than 60 per cent said set tariffs should be introduced for ...
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Brumbies v British Irish Lions – video highlights
Video highlights of the Lions Lions falling to their first defeat of the tour against the ACT Brumbies at Suncorp Stadium, Canberra. This was the first victory by an Australian province over the Lions since ...
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Ireland Nugents new legs get finishing touches
ORLANDO -- A lot of work went into making 2-year-old amputee Ireland Nugent's new legs. After days of fittings and measurements, prosthetists spend Tuesday put the finishing touches on the limbs, which are custom fit to size and style. What's a girl to do with so many fashion fabrics to choose from? Ireland didn't pick just one pattern, Minnie Mouse is on her right leg, Dora ...
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Ireland Nugent home with new legs
Less than two blocks away, a prosthetic team at Prosthetic and Orthotic Associates worked feverishly, creating Ireland's new legs. Ireland chose hew very own patterns for the prosthetics, she wanted Dora for one leg and Minnie Mouse for the ...
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Australian serial sex offender sentenced to life in prison for murdering Irish immigrant
MELBOURNE, Australia - A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for a rape and murder that outraged Australia's second-largest city. The violent death of Irish immigrant Jill Meagher as she walked home from a bar on Sept. 22 last year shocked the city of Melbourne. A week later, 30,000 people took to the streets near the laneway where she was strangled to rally ...
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Michelle Obama under fire for $5 million Ireland visit
Michelle Obama waves during a visit to Finnegans Pub in Dalkey, Ireland on June 18.(Photo:Agencies) U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama won't exactly be roughing it during her two-day trip to Ireland, reports the Washington Times. Mrs. Obama is staying at a $3,300-per-night hotel suite in Dublin's five-star Shelbourne hotel. She and her entourage have booked 30 rooms in the hotel. The ...
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Jill Meagher killer to serve at least 35 years
The man who raped and murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne, Australia, last year, has been sentenced to life in prison. 41 year old Adrian Bayley has been sentenced to life for the murder and 15 years for what Justice Geoffrey Nettle said was "a savage violent rape of the worst kind." Justice Nettle of the Victorian Supreme Court said Bayley would have to serve at least 35 ...
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Pat Cummins to play for Northern Ireland Academy
Northern Ireland Injury-plagued Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins will continue his recuperation playing for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy in Belfast tonight.The 20-year-old will play against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) before switching sides two days later to play against Ireland under-19s, who are preparing for their under-19 World Cup qualifiers in the Netherlands in ...
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State-run Donegal nursing home criticised by Hiqa
The report accuses the home of a "persistent failure" to ensure the right numbers and skill mix to care for residents, as required by previous ...
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Taoiseach insists no country can act unilaterally on tax
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde after a G8 summit group photograph at Lough Erne, Enniskillen, yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Andrew ...
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Midges make the most of Obamas at Glendalough
US first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters Sasha and Malia fight off an unwelcome attack of midges at Glendalough. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA ...
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Third Savita report not before end of summer
late summer or early autumn.Dr Nash proposed that the board endorse a vote of apology and condolence to Ms Halappanavar's husband, Praveen. Seconding the proposal, board ...
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Mrs Obama and girls treated to Bono fish and chips and a pub lock-in
Michelle Obama's lunch with Bono in Finnegan's pub in Dalkey wasn't listed on the official itinerary but it was the worst-kept secret in town. By the time the singer arrived just before 1pm with his ...
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Knowledge of history is intrinsic to citizenship says President
President Michael D Higgins said: 'Knowledge of history allows us to debunk myths and challenge inaccuracies as well as expose deliberate amnesia or invented versions of the past.' Phototograph: Peter ...
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Kenny not concerned by G8 strategy on tax evasion by multinationals
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has pledged to support moves by world leaders to overhaul the rules of business taxation, an iniative designed to stamp out aggressive avoidance and evasion by multinationals. On the final day of their summit in Co Fermanagh, the Group of Eight leading industrial powers pledged assertive action to ensure big companies pay a fair share of tax on profits. The plan was ...
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Abe the first serving Japanese PM to visit Ireland since independence
The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, having a meeting with British prime minister David Cameron at the G8 summit in the North. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA ...
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Statutory investigation into Magdalene laundries still needed says report
Members of Magdalene Survivors Together react to the publication of the Magdalene Report; in the foreground is an old Magdalene Laundry ledger. Photograph: Bryan ...
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G8 leaders agree 10 measures on tax
From left: European Commission president Jos Manuel Barroso, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia's president Vladimir Putin, Britain's prime minister David Cameron, US president Barack Obama, French president Franois Hollande, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, Italian prime minister Enrico Letta and European Council president Herman Van ...
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Mitchell voices concern over abolishing Seanad
Ms Mitchell outlined her concerns about standing down the Seanad, and called for a discussion on reforming multi-seat constituencies and introducing a list system, intimating that the Government was not willing to "bite the bullet" on those ...
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Governor of Maryland to meet Taoiseach during Irish visit
Martin O'Malley: "There is among the Irish, by and large in America, a keen and heartfelt awareness that we are a nation of nations and we have all been strangers in a foreign land at one point." Photograph: David ...
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Independent chairman to be appointed to health insurance forum to reduce costs
Dr James Reilly: said the appointment would be made in order to oversee "a process of review" of a number of areas to give effect to "real cost reductions" in the private health insurance ...
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Crown says cancer patients denied treatment
Prof John Crown: said a patient battling malignant melanoma had been deemed appropriate for the drug, Ipilimumab, but the insurance company, GloHealth, had informed him that it would not cover its members for 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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