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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

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

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

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 ...
Irishman John downey remanded on Hyde Park bomb charge

Dead horses covered up and wrecked cars at the scene of carnage in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, after an IRA bomb exploded as the Household Cavalry was passing. John Anthony Downey, 61, has been charged with the murders of four soldiers in the ...

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It was an uncomfortable day for the Irish presidency of the European Council. Ireland's corporate tax rate has long been a source of friction in its otherwise harmonious relationship with Europe. When Ireland first assumed the rotating presidency in January, the tax question had threatened to spill on to the European political agenda. Michael Noonan's first finance ministers' ...
David Miliband warns that British weakness in Europe could hold back Ireland

"On a whole range of issues where Britain and Ireland have common interests and common cause, we get left behind. This is the more serious ...
Dublin City Council discriminating against Wicklow residents TD claims

Simon Harris said the council was showing less concern for the people of Wicklow than it would for people in Dublin if they were affected. He called on Minister for the ...
Gilmore expresses confidence in Minister for Justice

Mr Gilmore said he had made a statement to the Dil and responded to questions. "He has apologised and has said he was sorry. And frankly I think you should accept that," he said to Mr ...
Plans welcomed for diverse Easter Rising centenary commemoration

There was sharp criticism of the manner in which the State marked the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1966 during a debate on centenary ...

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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 concession scheme, first-time buyers were exempt from paying stamp duty on properties that cost less than 250,000 until the concession ended.

This was backed up by figures from HM Revenue and Customs, which showed that there were 79,210 sales of homes in April 2013 in the UK, on a seasonally adjusted basis, compared with 69,310 a year earlier.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) released Tuesday also shows that in the 12 months to March 2013 UK house prices increased by 2.7%, up from a 1.9% increase in the 12 months to February 2013.

In March 2013, prices paid by first-time buyers were 1.3% higher on average than in March 2012. For owner-occupiers (existing owners) prices increased by 3.2% for the same period, the official data showed.

The rise in house prices has been varied across the country it has seen stable growth across most of the UK, although prices in London are increasing while those in Northern Ireland are falling. ...