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Actavis buys Irish rival for $A8.76bn
US pharmaceutical company Actavis has agreed to buy Irish rival Warner Chilcott for $US8.5 billion ($A8.76 billion) in an all-stock takeover, creating a global giant focused on women's health, gastroenterology, urology and ...
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G8 summit sparks biggest police operation in Northern Irelands history
Police put up a security fence at the Lough Erne golf resort in Fermanagh before the G8 summit starts. Photograph: Police Service of Northern ...
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Irish bank deposits drop 1.4 percent in April
DUBLIN | Mon May 20, 2013 12:23pm EDT DUBLIN May 20 (Reuters) - Deposits held by Ireland's locally-owned banks fell 1.4 percent in April, data from the country's finance department showed on Monday. Deposits at Bank of Ireland, permanent tsb and Allied Irish Banks Group fell by 2.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to 153.4 billion euros, the largest monthly fall in almost two ...
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Pilkington out of Ireland squad
Norwich winger Anthony Pilkington has been withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad, the Football Association of Ireland has confirmed. Pilkington scored for the Canaries in their 3-2 win at Manchester City yesterday, but because of a knee injury will not be fit for the friendly against England at Wembley on May 29 and the game against Georgia in Dublin on June 2, in preparation for the ...
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Dracula to be filmed in N Ireland
Belfast but will be filmed across other locations, Stormont's First Minister and deputy First Minister's office said.It will cover the story of the man who became Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania.The movie ...
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Charity blames Irish culture of humiliation for high rate of male suicide
A suicide charity is warning that the "culture of humiliation" in Ireland is pushing young men to take their own lives.Ireland has the fourth highest rate of suicide amongst young males in the EU.Turn the Tide on Suicide is now calling for a Suicide Prevention Authority to reverse this trend. The charity lists a number of risk factors including alcohol abuse, life events and mental ...
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Looted artifacts recovered from UK to go on display
Treasure hunters using metal detectors are believed to have been behind the removal of nearly 900 artefacts, including a bronze age axe and medieval coins, from Ireland that have now been recovered in the ...
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Shatter stands over decision to reveal incident
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at a memorial service for garda killed in the line of duty at Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photograph: Niall ...
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Government firm on working hours increase in pay talks
Chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission Kieran Mulvey: to brief Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin today on progress in the pay talks. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish ...
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FNC Speaker Irish Counterpart discuss visa waiver for UAE citizens
WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 -- Mohammed Ahmed Al-Murr, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC) met today with Sean Barrett, the Speaker of the Lower House of the Irish Parliament (Dail) at the Secretariat General of the FNC, and discussed exempting UAE citizens from current visa requirements. Al-Murr affirmed that since the relations between the UAE and Ireland have reached an ...
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Low number of prosecutions in clerical child abuse cases noted by report
Fewer than one in 12 priests accused of child sex abuse has faced prosecution, according to latest annual report of the Catholic Church's child protection watchdog published ...
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Shatter told about Wallace incident during garda briefing on penalty points
Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...
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Robert Fisk Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility
The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the mainland in a month's time to teach the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ...
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LGI in hunt for O2 Ireland paper says
US-based Liberty Global Inc (LGI) is rumoured to be mounting a bid to take control of Irish mobile network operator O2 Ireland, owned by Telefonica of Spain, the Sunday Independent reports. To that end, the paper claims that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is involved in the process, while Telefonica's advisors are thought to include Citi ...
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Ross ranks Bank of Ireland among best bets
US billionaire Wilbur Ross has said he ranks his investment in Bank of Ireland as one of the best he has made. The septugenarian took a 9.9% stake in the bank two years ago alongside a consortium of other US and Canadian investors. In total the group bought just under 35% of Bank of Ireland, keeping it out of public ownership. Asked in a Bloomberg TV interview what his "best bet" ...
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Everything is very far from rosy in the garden
The Chelsea Flower Show, which is the World Cup of gardening, starts today. Bloom, the Irish garden festival, runs over five days around the June bank ...
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Wallace confirms gardai spotted him using phone while driving
Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...
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Wallace confirms Shatter claim that Gardai showed penalty point discretion
Independent TD Mick Wallace has said he intends to report Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above right) to the Standards in Public Office Commission for bringing private information about him into the public domain. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish ...
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Personal data about welfare claimants used inappropriately says data commissioner
Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes highlighted the need for additional resources for his office when he published his annual report for 2012 at Government Buildings today. File photograph: Bryan O'Brien/The Irish ...
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Two men arrested in Kerins murder case
Two men were arrested by garda this morning in connection with the murder of former detective John Kerins at his Cavan home last ...
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Convert to the concept of human rights law now its champion
He used to see it as a bourgeois tool for thwarting radical change, and once opposed the very idea of a Human Rights Act. "When I came to England, which is where I have worked all my professional life, I saw an extreme negative judiciary, reactionary and, among other things, anti-Irish," Prof Gearty ...
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Cardinal boycotts Boston College commencement because Irish leader there abortion is issue
BOSTON - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is speaking at commencement ceremonies at Boston College on Monday, so Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Sean O'Malley is staying away. O'Malley objects to Kenny's support for legislation in his country that would permit abortion in Ireland. The leader of the Boston Archdiocese traditionally gives the benediction at Boston ...
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KBC Bank Ireland to launch debit card
KBC Bank Ireland is to launch debit card services to its Irish customers later this year. It is joining up with MasterCard for the new service. The debit card will be accepted at over 33 million retail locations around the world, on the internet and at two million ATMs - wherever MasterCard is ...
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Key talks on public service pay deal to resume
Chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission Kieran Mulvey: to brief Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin today on progress in the pay talks. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish ...
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Irish funds steam ahead with yet another month of positive returns
Irish pension funds are continuing on their upbeat paths with the sixth consecutive month producing a positive performance, with an average 2.8 per cent return, says Rubicon Investment Consulting. The best performing fund was Irish Life Investment Managers, at 3.9 per cent, and Aviva Investors, although bottom of the table, still managed to return a positive 2.0 per cent for August. ...
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Dublin and Cork are finally linked by motorway
The National Transport authority recently announced to Dublin news media that upgrades to the final stretch of motorway between Cork and Dublin will be opened in 2010, brining to completion a massive infrastructure investment.
The massive upgrade of 250 kilometers of motorway and highway between Dublin and Cork is almost complete, linking the capital with the second largest city in the country. Read more
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