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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 ...

  • Order prohibiting naming of ex-priest lifted

    A former priest who faces 34 charges of child sex abuse has no right to anonymity in court proceedings, a District Court judge has ruled. Bill Carney, 62, is accused of the indecent assault of eight boys and two girls between 1969 and 1989. A court order was granted prohibiting the publication of his name. That order was lifted today at the District Court in Cloverhill after an application by ...

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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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  • 11 groups say defects in abortion bill

    Up to 11 organisations have said that there are defects in the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013. The groups who are in favour of legislating for the X Case have said that defects in the bill may contravene the A, B and C decision at the European Court of Human Rights. The organisations which include the National Women's Council , Action on X and the Irish Family Planning ...

  • Drugs and cars recovered in PSNI operation

    Drugs and cars with a combined value of more than £450,000 (€525,000) have been seized in Co Down by detectives investigating a suspected organised crime gang. Cannabis plants worth over £350,000 (€408,000) were recovered from a concealed cultivation factory in Ballyward near Castlewellan. Seven vehicles valued at upwards of £100,000, among them a number of top of ...

  • Norwegian couple rescued by Navy off Cork coast

    A Norwegian couple, who were found on a dismasted yacht 160 miles off the south coast early yesterday morning, are being towed back to shore by the Navy. The couple, aged in their late 60s, are expected to reach dry land in Castletownbere by 6.30pm. The couple were en route from the Azores to the Shetlands Island when the mast on their 30ft yacht, the Alice 2, broke. They were initially found ...

  • How Genomics Solved The Mystery Of Irelands Great Famine

    This illustration from 1846 shows a starving boy and girl raking the ground for potatoes during the Irish potato famine, which began in the ...

  • Liquidator saves the day for wedding couple

    The unidentified couple's wedding reception will be able to proceed at Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf Resort, following the appointment of a provisional liquidator to the hotel. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish ...

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