Leading article: Northern Ireland's burst pipes

The board of Northern Ireland Water is reported to be reflecting on how it has handled the present emergency. As well it might. More than a week after the ...

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Northern Ireland water crisis was a disaster waiting to happen, says ex-boss

A former chairman of Northern Ireland Water has blamed politicians and the state-run utility company's current management for the country's water crisis. ...

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Water torture: Tankers on standby with supplies for Ulster as families tell of ...

Amid fears about the health implications of the crisis in Northern Ireland, water bosses told people it could be next week before everyone was reconnected. ...

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N. Ireland water crisis prompts emergency meeting

By Peter Taggart, For CNN Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- The Northern Ireland government was preparing Thursday to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ...

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Northern Ireland to import water

By David McKittrick, Ireland Correspondent The authorities in Northern Ireland came in for heavy criticism yesterday after water shortages affected tens of ...

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Tens of thousands affected by Northern Ireland water crisis

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- An estimated 40000 people in Northern Ireland have been left without running water for as long as 10 days because of ...

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Major rise in burst water pipes

The cold weather has resulted in a huge rise in the number of burst pipes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scottish Water has said it is dealing ...

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As Ireland Flails, Europe Lurches Across the Rubicon

Now the Continent's debt crisis was moving on to Ireland, and the German leader worried Berlin would have to foot the bill for this and future bailouts. ...

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The Blame Game: Jeff Ireland

That gave way to Bill Parcells' “Football Czar” position and the appointment of Jeff Ireland as the teams decision maker, even if only in title. ...

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Burst pipes affecting thousands in NI

Burst pipes are affecting thousands of households and businesses across the province as Northern Ireland thaws out after the big freeze. ...

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Sen. Coburn Warns Offers Dire View Of Economy

... Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says we need to slash federal spending if we want to avoid the financial meltdown that has plagued Ireland and Greece. ...

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Ireland's gay civil partnership recognized in law

Ireland will have its first official same sex partnership relationship recognized in April 2011, the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has announced. ...

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STOKE CITY EYE £5M STEPHEN IRELAND

By Harry Pratt STOKE CITY are ready to launch a £5million raid for Aston Villa outcast Stephen Ireland. Potters boss Tony Pulis is desperate to add a ...

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Freezing start to Christmas Day

Most parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland were sunny and dry but daytime temperatures are set to remain below freezing. ...

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What's next in the Eurozone financial crisis

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times For a year now, the once-mighty euro has lurched from crisis to crisis as debt-ridden Greece and then Ireland were forced to ...

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Ireland nationalises a fourth bank

Ireland nationalised the Allied Irish Banks (AIB) on Friday as it aimed to fix the run on deposits at the crisis-ridden company. The Irish government has ...

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Ireland Puts Another $4.8 Billion Into Allied Irish Banks

By LIZ ALDERMAN Ireland moved on Thursday to accelerate the cleanup of its banking crisis, seizing majority control of Allied Irish Banks, ...

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Ireland Takes Control of Allied Irish, Fourth Bank in Two Years

By Joe Brennan - Thu Dec 23 12:54:37 GMT 2010 Ireland's government will take control of a fourth bank in two years, after a court allowed it to take over ...

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Debt Struggles Set to Deepen for Peripheral Europe: Euro Credit

Portuguese 10-year bond yields rose by almost half a percentage point in the past two weeks as investors bet the country may follow Ireland in seeking aid ...

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Sony Launches Music Service

By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI TOKYOâ€"Sony Corp. said Wednesday it launched an online streaming-music service in the UK and Ireland and will roll out the platform ...

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Derivatives Blitz Needed to Tame Anarchic Bonds: Mark Gilbert

Then they came for Ireland and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Irish. Then they came for Portugal and I didn't speak up because I was German. ...

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Ireland vows to increase transparency

Ireland shook hands with fellow justices, then lifted his arms before addressing the crowd of about 350, which included former governor Michael S. Dukakis ...

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Euro struggles to defend support amid debt fears

Moody's said on Monday it may cut the ratings on Spanish banks following its multi-notch downgrade of Ireland's credit rating last week. ...

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Ireland defends finmin powers in new bank law

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland defended on Monday sweeping powers granted to the finance minister in a controversial new banking law that has raised concern at ...

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Houllier orders his Aston Villa commuters to get moving

The Aston Villa boss flagged up Stephen Ireland's decision to commute from Cheshire as one of the principal reasons behind the midfielder's failure to ...

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Iceland offers economic lessons for Ireland

Now, that comfort is fading Protesters gather outside Leinster House in Dublin, Ireland. Irish opposition leaders decried the EU-IMF bailout of Ireland as ...

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Moody's analyst cuts Ireland's credit rating to 'three grades above junk'

by Gaius Publius on 12/18/2010 08:20:00 PM Moody's slashed Ireland's credit rating five notches on Friday and warned of further downgrades if the country ...

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Ireland's Woes Push Banks into the Red

In DUBLIN, the ISEQ index fell 0.5%, as Moody's Investors Service slashed Ireland's sovereign rating by five notches to Baa1 from Aa2. ...

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Markets sanguine on Moody's big Ireland downgrade

By Daniel Bases and Alex Chambers NEW YORK/LONDON Dec 17 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service cut Ireland's credit rating by five notches on Friday, ...

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FOREX-Euro struggles after Ireland downgrade

The euro struggled after Moody's slashed Ireland's sovereign rating by five notches, to Baa1 from Aa2, and warned further downgrades could follow if Dublin ...

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IMF Board Approves $29.7 Billion Loan for Ireland to Help Stem Debt Crisis

(Source: Bloomberg) The International Monetary Fund's board today approved a three-year, 22.5 billion-euro loan facility for Ireland, the Washington-based ...

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Ireland's Economy Resumes Growth as Export Growth Counters Domestic Slump

By Colm Heatley - Thu Dec 16 11:36:27 GMT 2010 Ireland's economy resumed expansion in the third quarter as growth in exports countered a continued slump in ...

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How to revive the battered fortunes of brand Ireland

And how can a state like Ireland recover from the torrent of bad international press it has received in recent months? In its “NewERA” economic stimulus ...

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Irish lawmakers to vote on EU-IMF bailout loans

DUBLIN (AP) â€" Irish opposition leaders decried the EU-IMF bailout of Ireland as punitively expensive as lawmakers prepared to vote Wednesday on a loan ...

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Ireland's Bailout Fails to Revive Market for Bank Bond Sales: Euro Credit

By Joe Brennan - Wed Dec 15 00:01:00 GMT 2010 Ireland's bailout aims to wean the nation's financial system off European Central Bank life support. ...

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ECB Trichet urges flexibility in size, scope of EFSF

Analysts say any bailout of Spain and Portugal following that of Ireland would stretch the fund's current 440 billion euros in resources. ...

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'Deliver Us from Evil' priest arrested in Ireland

Convicted in 1994 of molesting two brothers, he served almost seven years in a US prison before being deported to his native Ireland. Earlier this year the ...

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Dollar Mostly Lower; Euro Subdued

This week in Europe will be dominated by upcoming political events in Italy, Ireland and the European Union summit, in which EU leaders aim to agree to a ...

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WikiLeaks cables: MI5 offered files on Finucane killing to inquiry

MI5 has said that it is prepared to hand over sensitive files on one of the most high-profile murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles carried out by ...

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ECB Board Members Throw Cold Water on 'QE' – For Now

Yesterday, Ireland's lame duck government decided to let the Irish people suffer even more, so as to satisfy the senior bondholders of the Irish banks (we ...

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Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty

VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Newly released US diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereignty" by ...

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Cables show Ireland ceded to Vatican pressure

VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Newly released US diplomatic cables indicate that Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the ...

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WikiLeaks: Scandal caused deep rift in Vatican-Ireland relationship

(CNN) -- Relations between the Vatican and Ireland deteriorated sharply as the Holy See appeared to ignore a commission looking into complaints of physical ...

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Ireland Years Away From "A" Rating: Fitch

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Fitch said it would take several years before crisis-hit Ireland would be back in 'A' credit status, after the ratings agency became the ...

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Euro Trades Near Week Low Versus Dollar on Debt Concern, Ireland Downgrade

Europe's currency headed for a weekly loss against 10 of its 16 major counterparts after Fitch Ratings downgraded Ireland. European Central Bank President ...

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FOREX-Euro slips on Irish downgrade, dollar up on yields

By Naomi Tajitsu LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The euro slipped against the dollar on Thursday after ratings agency Fitch downgraded Ireland's sovereign debt ...

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Ireland cringes as chill of austerity budget sets in

Sinn Fein supporters protest government spending cuts in icy weather outside Leinster House, Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Dec. 7. By Jason Walsh, Correspondent ...

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Bank of Ireland says its ATMs are working normally this morning after ...

The Consumers' Association of Ireland said customers would have to repay any funds they had overdrawn but called on the bank not to impose fees and interest ...

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Euro dips ahead of Irish budget vote

By TALI ARBEL The dollar edged off its lows of the day against the euro Tuesday as Ireland's parliament prepared to vote for a leaner budget that was a ...

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Irish parliament to vote on austerity budget

By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) â€" Ireland's parliament appeared to be on the cusp of approving the government's austerity budget Tuesday, ...

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Euro Falls From 2-Week High Amid Debate on Debt Crisis, Ireland

Ireland's parliament will vote today on its budget, which must be passed for the aid to go into effect. “An ultimate solution won't be found for Europe's ...

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SCENARIOS-Pressure on ECB, euro zone to act on debt crisis

However, traders said the ECB was quietly buying up the sovereign debt of peripheral euro zone member states, including Ireland and Portugal. ...

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Ireland to speed up shrinking of banks

By Patrick Jenkins and Sharlene Goff in London Ireland will accelerate the pace of shrinking the country's banks, as a quid pro quo for continued access to ...

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Vernon Teel, Anthony Ireland lead Loyola Marymount to victory

Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Vernon Teel and Anthony Ireland scored 14 points each Saturday night to lead Loyola Marymount to a 67-48 victory over Cal ...

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The roof falls in on Ireland's Millionaires Row

There is a padlock on the gate of Walford, the most expensive house in the priciest street in Ireland. Graffiti adorn the conservatory windows, ...

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See Ireland, Greece rescheduling debt in 2-3 yrs: StanChart

That is more than enough to help Ireland, probably will be enough to help Portugal and Spain. So in some respect it is two down - Greece and Ireland - and ...

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Ireland sees tax income rising next year before budget test

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's tax take will rise by five percent next year, the country's finance department predicted on Saturday, just days before it will ...

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Ireland's Fine Gael Pledges Tax, Public Sector Overhaul

By Quentin Fottrell Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland's main opposition Fine Gael party Friday pledged to slash the number of national ...

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Irish rescue shields top investors

As officials scrambled last week to rescue Ireland from a banking crisis that threatened to make the government itself insolvent, officials drew a firm line ...

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Iceland's Bankruptcy-to-Recovery a Model Ireland Won't Follow

29 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Elliott Gotkine reports on Ireland's 85 billion-euro ($113 billion) bailout package as European governments sought to quell ...

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Justice Ireland called 'great role model' and compassionate judge

By Jonathan Saltzman and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff Justice Roderick L. Ireland was described today as a "great role model'' for the young and as a ...

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Sovereign Debt Losses Extend to Highest-Rated European Bonds: Euro Credit

By Lukanyo Mnyanda and Paul Dobson - Wed Dec 01 11:43:17 GMT 2010 Ireland's decision on Nov. 28 to accept an 85 billion-euro bailout ($111 billion) failed ...

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Ireland's ripples spread globally

A key issue is whether Portugal, Spain and other European nations larger than Ireland will be forced to accept rescues and toughen their austerity programs, ...

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Irish Minister: ECB 'Bounced' Ireland Into Bailout

Ireland's Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern paused as he addressed the media in Dublin on Nov. 26, 2010. "There were people from outside this country who ...

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Germany watches with resignation as euro falls despite Ireland bailout

When Ireland's crisis loomed, Germans again balked at the prospect of having to help a country whose per capita annual income is over $5000 more than ...

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US Stock-Index Futures Fluctuate After Ireland Aid Package

29 (Bloomberg) -- US stock-index futures fluctuated as optimism that an aid package for Ireland will stem Europe's sovereign debt crisis withered as ...

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Ireland accepts $113-billion bailout package

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times European officials rescued their second country in seven months Sunday, offering financially strapped Ireland a bailout ...

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Ireland bailout to be nailed down after protests

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Ireland is due Sunday to get the details of a bailout expected to be worth tens of billions of dollars, ...

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Ireland Races to Secure Weekend Aid Deal Amid Bank Concern

By Finbarr Flynn and Stephanie Bodoni - Sun Nov 28 00:01:01 GMT 2010 Ireland is pushing to conclude talks for an international rescue package today as ...

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