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  • Ireland has no strategy to tackle Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal Ireland has no strategy to tackle Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal

    Irish all-rounder Kevin O'Brien, whose team will face Pakistan in the upcoming two ODI series at home, has said that Saeed Ajmal is a "tricky customer" as well as "one of the best spinners in the world", but admits his team has no specific plans on how to tackle Ajmal in the upcoming matches. The 29 year-old, who was also part of the side that knocked Pakistan out of the 2007 World Cup in the ...

  • One trillion euro tax evasion to be tackled says Barroso One trillion euro tax evasion to be tackled says Barroso

    BRUSSELS - Voicing concern about tax evasion that is estimated at one trillion euros, European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso said Tuesday that EU leaders will meet at a one-day summit on Wednesday to negotiate solution. The European Union can't afford to let tax evasion go on the way it is. Such large amounts of money, currently sitting in tax havens, would be greatly beneficial ...

  • Overall economy likely to pick up in Q2 says German central bank Overall economy likely to pick up in Q2 says German central bank

    FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...

  • Housing market picking up in UK Housing market picking up in UK

    LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...

  • Galaxy release Keane for Ireland games

    The Football Association of Ireland says Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy have agreed to let forward Robbie Keane play in exhibition games against England and Georgia that are not on FIFA fixture ...

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Kissing Jessica Stein [DVD]

Kissing Jessica Stein [DVD]

Kissing Jessica Stein is about two women who decide to try lesbianism for completely different reasons. The eponymous Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt) decides to give it a try because she has all but given up on finding Mr. Righther latest series of dates has ranged from a smarmy lounge lizard to an egghead accountant whose idea of going dutch means itemizing everything down to who ate the mor ... ...

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  • Ireland given pay deal boost as teachers union comes on side

    DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's hopes of convincing workers to agree to a revised public sector pay deal received a boost on Wednesday when a teachers' union who threatened strike action urged members to accept the proposals. Ireland's government agreed draft proposals with trade unions on Tuesday as it seeks to make fresh budget cuts and avert the threat of strikes in a country that ...

  • Irelands Robbie Keane cleared for friendlies

    Robbie Keane is available to play for the Republic of Ireland in next week's international friendly at Wembley, as his LA Galaxy bosses belatedly granted him permission to link up with Giovanni Trapattoni's ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • INTO to back revised LRC proposals on Croke Park II

    The INTO is to recommend to it's 32,000 members to accept the revised LRC proposals on Croke Park 2.The union said that potential gains in the original proposals have been fully retained such as the improved scales for newly qualified teachers. It has also been promised that all certified sick leave will be covered as will bereavement leave - proposals to cut back on cover was one of the ...

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