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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 ...

  • Pair jailed for life over Kerry bog murder

    A Brazilian man and an Irish man have been found guilty of the murder of a 28-year-old Brazilian man who had been living in Gort Co. Galway and whose body was found floating in a bog in north Kerry in March ...

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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 leaders to recommend acceptance of revised Croke Park 2

    The INTO has said it will recommend to its members to accept the revised Labour Relations Commission proposals on Croke Park 2.At a meeting today, leaders decided to put the new proposals to its 32,000 members in a ballot with a recommendation to accept.The teachers' union said that potential gains in the original proposals have been fully retained such as the improved scales for newly ...

  • Irish prime minister defensive about tax code

    Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny defended his country's tax code as European leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss corporations that dodge taxes. "I'd like to repeat that Ireland's corporate tax rate is statute based, is very clear and very transparent, and we do not do special deals with any individual companies in regard to that tax rate," Kenny told reporters ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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