DUBLIN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Ireland's budget deficit soared to 12.714 billion euros ($17.70 billion) last year versus 1.619 billion in red in 2007 as a deepening recession battered the former "Celtic Tiger's" public finances. A collapse in Ireland's ...
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Ireland's 2008 tax revenue came in around 8 billion euros (7.7 billion pounds) behind target and is increasingly falling behind the level of spending as recession bites, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Sunday. Speaking ahead of Monday's ...
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Teen R&B sensation Chris Brown makes his Northern Ireland debut tonight. The 19-year-old is equally renowned for his not-so-secret relationship with pop princess Rihanna and his impressive dance moves. The award-winning singer will perform hits from ...
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SAN FRANCISCO - California's high court has prohibited three Southern California parishes who left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers from retaining ownership of their church buildings and property. In a unanimous decision ...
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LONDON: Dr Sasha Sayee, a well-known doctor of Indian origin in Northern Ireland, has died. He was 63. Sayee, who moved to Northern Ireland from India in the early 1970s, was particularly well-known in the Magherafelt area where he was a general ...
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Business journalists have pored over the iconic crystal and china manufacturer's difficulties for years, covering every twist and turn of the efforts of majority owners Sir Anthony O'Reilly and Peter John Goulandris to revive the Anglo-Irish company ...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Three U.S.-based parties are in talks to save china-maker Waterford Wedgwood after the Irish company called in receivers, the Financial Times said on Tuesday. The heavily indebted maker of Waterford crystal, one of Ireland's most ...
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