The Guardian has reported: The Irish bailout has failed. That’s the stark verdict from Zerohedge, the financial blog, after the euro slipped into negative territory
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Ireland has, in all but name, gone bust. Contagion — to UK and German banks and through the capital markets to Portugal, Spain and even
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  As I have mentioned here, more than once, over the last few years, somewhat I gather to his chagrin, Bono famously fled Ireland’s corporate
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Who said that? Why, George Osborne, in 2006. He was wrong then. And it looks like he’s learned nothing since.

From Swissinfo: With Ireland coming under increasing pressure to raise corporate taxes, Swiss cantons are eyeing the opportunity of seizing a greater share of company
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I have just been sent a Press Association story I can’t find on the web yet, saying: Ireland’s main opposition party is to call a
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Joseph O’Conner has written in the Guardian on the core of the Irish dilemma: Far from the gloomy headlines and crushing statistics lies the full
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A little humour often helps. The podcast here is well worth listening too. Hat tip to JohnM

In amongst all the stories on the republic’s crisis a couple slipped out on the hearing of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the House
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