Stephen Ireland Joins Newcastle

Ireland has sealed a loan move from Aston Villa to Newcastle, according to ESPNsoccernet.com. Ireland has been a forgotten man at Villa since joining them ...

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Speed leaves out Bellamy

Wales boss Gary Speed has left Craig Bellamy out of his squad for the Carling Nations Cup match against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin next month. ...

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Trio called up to Ireland squad

Leinster tighthead prop Mike Ross will also feature in the 22 as only three props have been retained in the 26-man squad released by Ireland coach Declan ...

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Aston Villa's Stephen Ireland set for Newcastle loan

Aston Villa midfielder Stephen Ireland is close to agreeing a loan move to Newcastle after travelling to the north east to undergo a medical. ...

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Ireland twins are an inspiration to their famous father

Haley and Hannah Ireland are 15-year-old twin sisters with matching glasses and long auburn hair. From all appearances they are regular teenagers except for ...

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Scotland A 32-13 Ireland Wolfhounds

The Ireland Wolfhounds were beaten 32-13 by Scotland A at Netherdale on Friday night, after turning around at the break with a 13-9 lead. ...

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Ireland, Mired in Crisis, Will Dissolve Parliament

By JOHN F. BURNS LONDON â€" Two months after Ireland joined Greece in accepting an international bailout for its debt-wracked economy, the political ...

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Ireland's PM Will Dissolve Parliament Tuesday

By Quentin Fottrell Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen said Friday he will dissolve parliament when it ...

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ECB's Bini Smaghi: Ireland Can't Renegotiate Bailout Terms

By Quentin Fottrell Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland can't renegotiate the agreed conditions that come with an international rescue ...

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S&P Says Europe Faces 'Three-Speed' Recovery in Next 18 Months

27 (Bloomberg) -- Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal will probably remain “stuck in recession” for the next 18 months and be the laggards in a three-speed ...

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Israel reprimands Irish envoy for upgrading Palestinian mission to embassy

The head of the Foreign Ministry department responsible for Irish affairs told Ireland's ambassador to Israel that 'this does not contribute to the peace ...

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Ireland's deficit-cutting budget passes key test

DUBLIN (AP) â€" Ireland's embattled minority government won a preliminary vote Wednesday on a deficit-cutting budget designed to comply with conditions for a ...

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Israel summons Ambassador over Palestinian envoy upgrade

“For many years Ireland has been the most anti-Israel member state of the European Union. Foreign minister Martin was probably eager to push this through ...

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Ireland's Lenihan says bank bonus tax difficult

DUBLIN Jan 25 (Reuters) - Ireland's Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said on Tuesday it would be difficult to implement a tax on bankers' bonuses, ...

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Ireland's Voters Ready to Confront Rest of Euro Zone

By PAUL HANNON Whenever it happens, Ireland's general election will mark the first clash between the desires of voters in a euro-zone nation that is in ...

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Dollar up; euro falters on Ireland woes

Read about Ireland's political turmoil. On Sunday, Ireland's Green Party pulled out as junior partner in the coalition government led by Prime Minister ...

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Ireland's crumbling coalition government scrambles to pass finance bill

The European financial crisis is on the verge of claiming its first major political victim with the near-collapse this weekend of Ireland's coalition ...

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Ireland's Green party considers whether to stay in government

Ireland's junior coalition partner, the Green party, is meeting today to decide if it will remain in government. The discussions follow Brian Cowen's ...

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Dolphins general manager Ireland signs contract extension

MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami Dolphins General Manager Jeff Ireland has signed a multi-year contract extension to stay in control of a team he has transformed ...

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The cost of capitalism

He was responding to criticism of Ireland's bail-out plan by Socialist MEP Joe Higgins, who said: "It is a mechanism to make working-class people throughout ...

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Increased investment reliefs positive news for business

On a macro level there is nothing in the Bill which is detrimental to Ireland Inc's overall corporate taxation strategy. The 12.5 per cent corporate tax ...

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EU Talks On Greece Debt Revamp Could Aid Ireland - Report

Still, the rationale offered for any Greek restructuring could set a precedent to restructure Irish debt if Ireland remained shut out from private debt ...

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Ireland faces new wave of emigration

By GUY CHAZAN And AINSLEY THOMSON DUBLINâ€"Ireland is facing a wave of emigration on a scale unseen since the 1980s, as young people desperate for work turn ...

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Will Other Catholic Bishops Risk Eternal Damnation?

This letter was signed by the late Archbishop, Luciano Storero, Pope John Paul II's diplomat to Ireland, and addressed to Ireland's Catholic bishops, ...

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Irish growth seen but jobs still scarce

By John Murray Brown in Dublin Ireland is set to return to growth in 2011, but the fallout from the financial and public debt crises will push up emigration ...

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Vatican says its Irish abuse letter misunderstood

The letter documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland's first ...

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Ireland Wields Stick to Wound Bank Bondholders: Euro Credit

Ireland is taking control of Allied Irish, making it the fourth lender seized by the state as bad debts threaten to topple the country's financial system. ...

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Vatican warned Irish bishops not to report abuse

DUBLIN (AP) â€" A newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warns Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police ...

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Fianna Fáiled: Ireland Prints 25% of its GDP in German Euro

Ireland Central Bank was allowed, with or with out permission, to print up up new Euros without new sovereign debt issued behind them. By December of 2010, ...

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Michaela Harte McAreavey: Thousands pay last respects to honeymoon murder bride

Mourners from throughout Ireland will converge on Co Tyrone today to pay their last respects at the funeral of honeymoon murder victim Michaela Harte ...

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Factbox: Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin

(Reuters) - Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said on Sunday he would vote against deeply unpopular Prime Minister Brian Cowen in a leadership ballot ...

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Irish central bank boosts emergency liquidity

By John Murray Brown Ireland's central bank increased its provision of emergency liquidity support to its domestic banking system in December, ...

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ECB's Smaghi says Ireland triggers new stress tests: report

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Europe needs to do a new round of stress tests on banks after Ireland's flawed vetting of lenders in 2010 raised doubts about a parallel ...

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ECB's Smaghi says Ireland triggers new stress tests: report

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Europe needs to do a new round of stress tests on banks after Ireland's flawed vetting of lenders in 2010 raised doubts about a parallel ...

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Michaela Harte given GAA guard of honour

Fr Gerard McAleer, a close family friend who has spent much time with Mickey and Marian Harte since news of the murder reached Ireland, said there was “an ...

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Ireland May Have Lent Banks Up to 51.1 Billion Euros

By Joe Brennan - Fri Jan 14 11:52:18 GMT 2011 Ireland's central bank may have loaned as much as 51.1 billion euros ($68.4 billion) to the country's lenders ...

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Cowen fiddled in summer Ireland burned

... golf outing to the September bank guarantee paints a picture of incompetence and a deep failure to realise the severity of Ireland's economic crisis. ...

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Ireland's NAMA eyes 3 local property deals in Q1

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's "bad bank" expects to sell three domestic commercial property assets with a value of around 200 million euros (167 million ...

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Portuguese bond sale sees strong demand

The auction was seen as a key test of whether Portugal may end up requiring a bailout like Greece and Ireland. The government debt agency said it sold ...

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Euro Debt Crisis Metastasizes, As Polish Yields Spike To 6.18%

Note too that sovereign spreads in Ireland and Greece are at record highs in spite of the alleged bailouts. In response to the clearly not-contained crisis, ...

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Japan may buy fifth of eurozone bonds for Ireland

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Japan plans to buy a major portion of the European bonds being auctioned this month to finance emergency loans to Ireland, the Japanese ...

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Portugal auction's a key test but won't decide fate

Many economists and strategists see little chance that Portugal can avoid the fate of Greece and Ireland and become the third euro-zone nation to seek a ...

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China's financial clout felt in Europe

But so did Ireland and Greece right before both nations did an about-face and humbly requested assistance from the EU and the International Monetary Fund. ...

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Portugal, Ireland Lead Rise in Sovereign Debt Risk to Records

10 (Bloomberg) -- Portugal and Ireland led a surge in the cost of insuring against default on European sovereign debt to record levels on concern government ...

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Celtic manager Neil Lennon rises above sectarianism

The former Northern Ireland international will have been far from surprised by that development, says John Kerr Gerry Lennon saw the bonfire as he passed ...

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Portugal says not under pressure to take bailout

... is under pressure by France and Germany to seek a bailout from Brussels and the IMF to ease concerns over its debts, like Greece and Ireland before it. ...

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Dolphins treat Sparano like a charity case

Dolphins coach Tony Sparano (left), owner Stephen Ross (center) and general manager Jeff Ireland hold a roundtable discussion with limited media members at ...

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$5M grant brings Ireland to Chicago

Chicago theaters, galleries and concert halls will help showcase the full range of Irish culture in the coming year as part of Imagine Ireland, ...

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Ambitious display of creative talent asks US audiences to imagine a better Ireland

IMAGINE IRELAND, the year-long season of Irish cultural events that was launched in New York yesterday “began as an act of imagination”, said Gabriel Byrne, ...

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Ireland Hopes to Borrow 'Soon' on Bond Markets

By QUENTIN FOTTRELL DUBLINâ€"Ireland's National Treasury Management Agency's chief executive officer said Friday that the agency will resume borrowing on ...

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Ireland May Expand Aid Program to Purchase Banks' Noncore Assets

By QUENTIN FOTTRELL And NICHOLAS WINNING DUBLINâ€"Ireland's banks may be instructed to sell billions of euros in healthy noncore assets to a government ...

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Ireland Bailout Bonds From EU Attract Asian Investors in $6.6 Billion Sale

By Jonathan Stearns - Thu Jan 06 12:54:41 GMT 2011 Investors in Asia piled into bonds sold yesterday by the European Union to help finance aid for Ireland, ...

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European Agency Sells Billions in Bonds to Finance Rescue Fund for Ireland

By DAVID JOLLY The European Union began issuing bonds on Wednesday to finance its rescue fund for Ireland, even as Portugal was required to pay more to sell ...

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Portugal Sees Borrowing Costs Rise as EU Sells Bonds for Irish Rescue

The money, which should be paid to Ireland within five working days, is part of the €17.6 billion the commission is contributing to the fund this year, ...

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Agency on course for five-year jobs target

By Geoff Percival IDA IRELAND has said it remains on course to achieve its previously stated five-year target of over 100000 new jobs by 2014, ...

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Sparano, Ireland best Fins can do?

I don't see that either general manager Jeff Ireland or coach Tony Sparano enjoy the heft of résumé or stamp of accomplishment to make their jobs safe. ...

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Miami Dolphins also need upgrade in front office, on sideline

Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland waits for the start of the 2010 NFL Draft in the team's draft conference room on Thursday, April 22, 2010. ...

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Water crisis continues in Northern Ireland

Workers unload bottles of water near Belfast as the crisis continues to affect homes in Northern Ireland. Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Several hundred ...

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800 homes still without water supply in Northern Ireland

With water still leaking out of the system, Northern Ireland Water has also been turning off supplies to 60000 homes in rotation in an effort to replenish ...

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'Give Scottish Water more powers' says Salmond

First Minister Alex Salmond has used the water crisis in Northern Ireland, where thousands of homes have been without supply for more than a week, ...

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Northern Irish water crisis worsens as vandals drain tanks

By Rory Reynolds MORE than 5000 homes in Northern Ireland were still without water last night as engineers battled to repair leaks that have crippled the ...

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Still No Water For 6000 In Northern Ireland

More than 6000 homes are still without running water in Northern Ireland as engineers battle to repair pipes which burst in the recent big freeze. ...

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