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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 ...

  • Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row

    Reuters © Apple Operations International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc, is seen in Hollyhill, Cork, in the south of Ireland in this October 6, 2011 file photo. Ireland said on May 21, 2013 it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments after the U.S. Senate said the company paid little or nothing on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish subsidiaries. ...

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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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  • Globe picks Ireland’s Nasctech to optimise enhance network

    Filipino operator Globe Telecom, backed by the Ayala Group, has selected Irish firm Nasc Technologies (Nasctech) to optimise and enhance the efficiency of its recently ...

  • Ireland Factory-gate Inflation Accelerates In April

    Output prices in the Irish manufacturing sector rose at the strongest pace in five month during April, data released by the Central Statistics Office showed Wednesday. Factory-gate prices rose 1.9 percent year-on-year, following 1.1 percent rise in the previous month. The latest increase was the biggest since November, when output prices grew 2.7 percent. Month-on-month, output prices in the ...

  • Census information reveals regional statistics

    The Regional Quality of Life report from the Central Statistics Office compares lifestyle, housing, health, education and economic activity across the country. Half of the data comes from the 2011 Census, with the rest contributed by Government Departments and State Agencies. In December of last year, just under 20% of drivers had penalty points on their licences, Co Mayo had the fewest at ...

  • Drowning hypothermia caused four fishermen deaths

    The Coroner's Court in Cork has been told that four of the five men who lost their lives on the Tit Bonhomme died from either drowning or hypothermia. A fifth man, Attea Shaban, died from a lethal injury to the head. Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster was giving evidence on the second day of the inquest into the deaths of the five fishermen last year. The Tit Bonhomme sank ...

  • Pats Angels in training for Race for Life event

    Race for Life TWO sisters who work at Carillon Court Shopping Centre in Loughborough will be running the Race for Life in memory of their much-loved mum who died from cancer last year. Tonia Di-Lena, 47, who is branch administrator at Pertemps Recruitment, and 42-year-old Julianna Di-Lena Sharpe, a sales adviser at New Look, will be tackling the 5k course in the all-female race organised ...

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