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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 ...

  • 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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Jurassic Park [3D Re-Release]

Jurassic Park [3D Re-Release]

Seeing Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park on the big screen for the first time since the summer of 1993when I saw it with a jammed-to-the-walls Friday night audience that was like one live wire, completely frazzled by the time the end credits rolledconfirms both Spielbergs mastery ... ...

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  • Coroner says recession a factor in suicide rate

    The coroner for Co Westmeath has said the economic crisis is one of the factors that have led to a sharp increase in the incidence of suicide in the county. Dr Wilfred Hoover said the recession was not the only issue. He said there had been an increase of over 400% in the number of people who had taken their own lives, as recorded in verdicts at his court, in the first three months of the ...

  • Animal welfare laws pass through the Oireachtas

    A Bill that provides for micro chipping of all dogs by 2015 has passed through the Oireachtas. The Animal Health and Welfare Bill will force all dog owners to have their dogs chipped, making the animals readily identifiable if welfare issues arise. The Bill also outlaws attending and recording dog fights, and the practice of docking or cutting dogs' tails for cosmetic reasons. New powers ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Gun found in east Belfast dissident search

    Dissident republicans are attempting to whip up tensions around the marching season in a bid to attract a new generation of recruits, a senior Orange Order figure has ...

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