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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Barcelona - Atheist groups in Barcelona will follow the example of a bus advertising campaign under way in London, placing ads denying the existence of God on two buses running in Spain's second-largest city, local transport authorities said Monday ...
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UMBRELLA singer Rihanna is fuelling speculation that she is engaged to soul star Chris Brown, by sporting a huge bit of bling on her ring finger. Friends have told the The Sun newspaper in London that Brown, 19, popped the question over the New Year ...
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Waterford Wedgwood PLC became the latest consumer products company or retailer to file for bankruptcy. Its stock units were suspended from trading on the Irish Stock Exchange on Monday, and David Carson of Deloitte LLP was named as a receiver for the ...
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- The government has begun the process of borrowing billions from world bond markets to finance the running of the state as it confirmed yesterday that it recorded the largest deficit to date in public finances in 2008. - The inquiry team set up to ...
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Ireland is to have its first direct telecommunications link to North America providing faster and cheaper broadband, it was confirmed today. A €30m contract to lay an undersea cable has been awarded to Hibernia Atlantic Limited following a ...
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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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