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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 ...

  • Unilever Ireland to seek 40 redundancies

    Unilever has said it is to seek around 40 redundancies from its Irish operations in Citywest, Dublin. In a statement, the company said it was seeking the cuts in an attempt to create a "more competitive organisationin response to an unrelentingly challenging retail environment". Unilever currently employs 190 people in Ireland. It operates a number of brands including; Lyons ...

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Hannibal

It has now been a decade since The Silence of the Lambs took the movie-going public by storm over a Valentine's Day weekend in 1991. The gripping story of an apprentice FBI agent forming an unlikely relationship with a viciously brilliant serial killer held in captivity in order to catch another killer struck a chord with audiences in a way few movies ever do. Five Oscars later, it has ... ...

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  • INTO leadership to recommend LRC proposals

    The leadership of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation is to recommend its 32,000 members accept the revised Labour Relations Commission proposals on public sector pay. The leadership met today and said the proposals would be put to a ballot with a recommendation to accept. The INTO said the revised proposals "contain a promised alleviation on the proposal to abolish completely ...

  • Irelands beaches to lose 13 Blue Flags

    Tougher testing procedures are being blamed for the net loss of 13 Blue Flag awards for Ireland’s beaches this year. Among the beaches to lose the award were Velvet Strand in Portmarnock in Co Dublin, Ballybunion North beach in Co Kerry and White Strand Miltown Malbay in Co Clare. An Taisce, which organises the Blue Flag awards, said that a new EU directive means readings are now based ...

  • Ireland says does not want to become U.S. whipping boy on tax

    corporate tax rate after the U.S. Senate said on Monday that Apple paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and that it had negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than 2 percent. "I do not want to be the whipping boy for some misunderstanding in a hearing in the U.S. congress," Michael Noonan told a parliamentary committee in his ...

  • Govt passes Bill to allow for greater use of generic drugs

    Health Minister James Reilly has welcomed the passing of new legislation which allows for greater use of generic drugs. The 'Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods Bill' will allow pharmacists to substitute medicines which have been marked as interchangeable by the Irish Medicines Board. Dr Reilly said it will substantially reduce medicine prices for both the State and ...

  • Wallace How could penalty points incident reach Minister a year later

    Mick Wallace has said he hopes the Standards in Public Office Commission will get to the bottom of the penalty points debacle.Last night, the Justice Minister Alan Shatter addressed the Dil in the wake of revelations he made that Deputy Wallace had evaded penalty points due to garda discretion.Minister Shatter said he was given the information about Mr Wallace by Garda Commissioner Martin ...

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