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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 ...

  • Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal

    WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...

  • Britvic to create combined UK and Irish unit

    British soft drinks maker Britvic will close two factories and a warehouse and roll out the Fruit Shoot brand in India as part of a new strategy announced with its interim results. Proposals to deliver annual savings of £30m sterling include closing two factories in Britain and a warehouse in Northern Ireland. It will also create a combined British and Irish business unit under a single ...

  • Carroll pulls out of Ireland clash

    Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has been ruled out of England's friendlies against Republic of Ireland and Brazil due to a foot injury. The English Football Association confirmed the news in a statement last night, stating that no replacement is being called up by manager Roy Hodgson at the present time. "Andy Carroll has been ruled out of the England squad for the upcoming ...

  • Why Apple Wound Up In Ireland

    Apple was criticized in a Senate hearing Tuesday for using a complex accounting to minimize the corporate taxes it pays. One key piece of the company's tax strategy: It funnels lots of its profits through subsidiaries in Ireland. Offering low corporate tax rates has been a fundamental part of Ireland's economic strategy for decades -- a way to get foreign companies to set up operations ...


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Layer Cake

Layer Cake

Daniel Craig has been in a lot of supporting roles in both British and American films during the past 15 years, so his face elicits an immediate sense of recognition, even though you probably cant quite place it. As it turns out, that sense of vague familiarity fits his leading role perfectly in the crime caper Layer Cake, where he plays a sternly efficient, no-nonsense London drug dealer w ... ...

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  • Verdict expected in Tipperary rape trial

    A verdict is expected in the trial of a man accused of raping a woman at a Tipperary house.The woman has given evidence during the hearing that she understood she was going with the man to do a cleaning job. The accused man admitted having sex with the then 23-year-old woman at the house but told gardai it was consensual.He said that the woman had not shown any fear.It is alleged she was raped ...

  • Focus on Irish tax laws as Kenny heads for Brussels

    Ireland's tax laws will come under the spotlight again today when the Taoiseach attends a European Council meeting in Brussels.The talks follow the publication yesterday of a report by the US Senate which claims that Ireland's tax laws enabled the tech giant Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax.Enda Kenny denied the claim in the Dil and said that Ireland doesn't ...

  • Press Digest - Ireland - May 22

    Wed May 22, 2013 2:40am EDT These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy: THE IRISH TIMES - Ireland's reputation took a battering at a high-profile U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday where the country was labeled a "tax haven" in an investigation into the offshore tax practices ...

  • Significant changes set out in revised Croke Park II accord

    Brendan Howlin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, turns away from his press briefing on the LRC negotiations on Croke Park at Government Buildings ,yesterday.Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish ...

  • Irish truck driver laid to rest two years after he disappeared

    St. John the Baptist in Cashel, asked God to give his family justice, Herald.ie reported. "He has given the last two years on his own and now, finally, he's back where he belongs," Michelle Ryan said. Ryan, 52, who also worked as a disc jockey under the name Mr. Moonlight, was last seen June 3, 2011. Michelle Ryan told the RTE program "Crimecall" that she found her ...

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