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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 ...

  • Two jailed for life over Brazilian mans murder

    Two men have been found guilty of the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a north Kerry bog. The jury took just over one-and-a-half hours to return their verdicts at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Co Kerry. John Paul Cawley, 20, and Wenio Rodriguez da Silva, 29, both of Ardoughter, Ballyduff had both pleaded not guilty to murdering Bruno Lemes de Sousa at Shronowen Bog, ...

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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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  • 82 confirmed cases of ash dieback in Ireland

    The Department of Agriculture has confirmed 82 cases of ash dieback disease in Ireland. All the cases are in trees that were imported from the Continent and none were found in native ash trees. Ash dieback or chalara fraxinea was first noticed in forestry in Poland in 1992. Since then it spread rapidly across Europe and is now found in 19 countries. The first confirmed case in Ireland was ...

  • DUP hits out at Sinn Fein call for Hyde Park accused release

    The DUP has criticised calls from Sinn Fein for the release of a man arrested over the deaths of four soldiers in London 31 years ago. John Downey was arrested at Gatwick Airport on Sunday and appeared in court on Wednesday charged with the murders of Roy John Bright, Dennis Richard Anthony Daly, Simon Andrew Tipper and Geoffrey Vernon Young.The men were members of the Royal Household Cavalry ...

  • Riot of colour at Texaco kids’ art awards

    Winners in this year's Texaco Children's Art Competition pictured with their artwork at the awards ceremony was held in CityWest today. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish ...

  • Work on Grafton Street to start after June bank holiday

    The work will take 18 months to complete. The street will stay open to pedestrians during this period but access for delivery vans will be ...

  • Trawler changed course before collision inquest told

    This week an inquest into the deaths of the five men heard evidence from marine surveyor, Eoghan O'Toole from the Dept of Transport that the Tit Bonhomme was on its correct setting for Union Hall up until it was about half a nautical mile from Glandore ...

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