State forces bondholders to share in bank losses

BANK OF Ireland, Irish Life & Permanent and EBS have joined AIB in announcing plans to impose losses of as much as 90 per cent on junior bondholders. Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said the move to “burn” the junior, or subordinated, ...

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Ireland's Noonan: Bank Bond Plans Advance Burden Sharing Aim

DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said plans by Bank of Ireland Plc and other stricken lenders will achieve his government's aim of pressing "appropriate" burden sharing on bank bond holders amid Ireland's debt crisis. ...

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Sterling ton helps Ireland bounce back a bit

IAIN DOWIE, a former hero around these parts, christened it “boucebackability”, and despite going down to a five-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the second and final RSA series match in Belfast yesterday, Ireland showed plenty of the characteristic as ...

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Ireland rules out second bailout; to test market in 2012

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government moved on Monday to quash speculation it would be forced to seek a second EU-IMF bailout and said it would make a tentative return to international debt markets in the final quarter of next year. ...

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Keane equals record and secures title

NATIONS CUP Rep of Ireland 1 Scotland 0: HANG AROUND with FAI types of a certain vintage for long enough and someone will eventually mention the night when, under Jack Charlton, the Republic of Ireland won a triangular tournament in Iceland and at the ...

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Ireland Will Honor Its Sovereign Debts Says Irish Deputy PM

By Eamon Quinn DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland will "honor" its bailout agreement with the European Union and International Monetary Fund and repay it debts, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore said Sunday. Gilmore, who is also the Foreign Affairs ...

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Junaid four-for wrecks Ireland

PHOTO: AFP Pakistan's Junaid Khan ensured Ireland came back down to earth after their World Cup exploits as the tourists thrashed Ireland in the rain-affected series-opener by seven wickets. Left-arm paceman Junaid, in only his fifth match at this ...

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Republic of Ireland make four changes to line-up

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has made four changes to his starting line-up for Sunday's Nations Cup game against Scotland in Dublin. The Republic boss has indicated he may review his starting side before kick-off at the Aviva Stadium ...

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Bank of Ireland Closes In On Bond Holder Offer-Sources

By Eamon Quinn DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Bank of Ireland PLC, one of Ireland's last surviving major lenders, will in the coming days present the results of a plan--driven by the Irish government--to persuade bond holders to accept big discounts on EUR2.75 ...

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President Obama and Ireland - a love story

Unfortunately they were almost identical to the words Obama himself used after beating John McCain in November 2008, with references to “America” crudely scribbled out and replaced with “Ireland”. Enda claims the whole thing was a deliberate homage, ...

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Enda Kenny in Dublin cash pledge to build £850m road

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has publicly pledged to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to build a controversial road in Northern Ireland. There have been more than 2400 objections to the planned £850m A5 road from Londonderry to Aughnacloy, ...

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Bank of Ireland Said to Near Subordinated Debt-For-Equity Offer

By Joe Brennan - Thu May 26 14:14:35 GMT 2011 Bank of Ireland Plc is close to completing an offer that allows junior bondholders to swap their debt for equity in the lender, according to two people familiar with the progress of the negotiations on the ...

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Taoiseach insists Ireland will not seek to restructure debt

Ireland received an €85 billion EU-IMF bailout in November, making it the second euro zone country nation to get aid after Greece. The Government is in negotiations to secure a lower interest rate on the EU portion of the loan. The Government's bid for ...

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Presidential visit a cause for celebration

BARACK OBAMA is the sixth US President to visit Ireland, and as with Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, President Obama can lay claim to Irish roots. The President's Irish visit was multifaceted: it was a small strand in a much bigger European ...

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After the Queen's visit to Ireland

Your supplement (Queen Elizabeth in Ireland, May 21st) was brilliant. I've just seen the Obama supplement (May 24th) and it's equally wonderful. â€" Yours, etc, Much of the commentary concerning the visit suggested that it was a sign of our maturity and ...

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Obama assures the people of Ireland that “the best is yet to come”

Ireland's “best days are yet to come,” was the message US President Barack Obama had for the Irish public yesterday. Delivering a moving speech to the crowd of 40000 people gathered in College Green on Monday, Obama urged Irish people to take ...

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'Ireland carries a blood link with us', says Obama

“Ireland carries a blood link with us,” he said. “And for the millions of Irish Americans, this continues to symbolise the homeland and the extraordinary traditions of an extraordinary people.” Though US officials will not comment on a domestic ...

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Moneygall, Ireland, Obama's ancestral home, preps for POTUS visit; tiny town ...

BY Philip Caulfield Locals in President Obama's ancestral home in Ireland are finally getting a chance to raise a pint to their favorite son. Moneygall, a tiny farming hamlet between Dublin and Limerick where Obama's great-great-great grandfather was ...

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Ireland's debt crisis, austerity offer a lesson for Obama

By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY DUBLIN â€" The Ireland that President Obama visits for the first time today is down on its luck â€" and therein lies a lesson for the United States. By Peter Morrison, AP A participant in a Sinn Fein protest in December outside ...

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WEATHER ALERT Storm Udo Bears Down On Ireland

A potent storm centre (named 'Storm Udo') of around 980 hPa will develop and pass to the north of Ireland, bringing with it extremely strong winds and heavy rain, most severe in northern and western parts. Sustained winds of up to Storm Force 10, ...

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A week when Britain and Ireland grew up

She broke both rules in Ireland last week. Most of us had expected a bland occasion whose significance lay simply in the fact that it was happening at all. What we got was both challenging and moving. The risks the Queen took were not physical. ...

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Obama in Europe: tending to old friends, new global problems and ancestral ...

Obama, who departs late Sunday, will visit Ireland, England, France and Poland. Each is weathering an economic downturn that has forced European nations to adopt strict austerity measures. The US has pushed its national debt to the limit, and Obama and ...

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British-Irish relations: A royal stamp of approval

Queen Elizabeth II's trip to Ireland this week showcased a remarkable rapprochement between Britain and a nation that was once its colonial possession. A spectator reaches out to greet Britain's Queen Elizabeth II after she visited the English Market ...

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IMF calls for Europe to do more to help Ireland

By Carmel Crimmins and Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, May 20 (Reuters) - A more comprehensive European approach to dealing with the region's debt crisis is needed to help Ireland regain access to debt markets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on ...

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Queen wraps up Ireland visit hailed as a success

DUBLIN: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was on Friday wrapping up her landmark four-day state visit to Ireland, which analysts said had exceeded expectations and put Anglo-Irish relations on a revitalised footing. The sovereign was to visit a medieval ...

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Ireland's bad bank eyes ways to stoke property sales

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, May 19 (Reuters) - Ireland's state-run "bad bank" said it hopes to unveil a product to stoke residential property sales as lenders warned of weak loan demand on Thursday and the number of Irish residential mortgages in arrears ...

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A quiet atonement for Britain's role in years of violence in Ireland

That event, an act of revenge after Irish independence fighters killed 14 British officers that morning, led to even bloodier violence on a day that would become one of Ireland's Bloody Sundays, and set the tone for seven decades of violence. ...

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Queen to honour Croke Park victims

By John Murray Brown in Dublin Queen Elizabeth was set to mark the second day of her historic state visit to Ireland on Wednesday by going to a Gaelic football stadium where 14 Irish civilians were killed by British police during the war of ...

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One small step for a monarch...

The plane touched down at noon, its royal standard fluttering in the breeze, signalling the first visit to Ireland by a reigning British monarch since George V in 1911. The Queen's four-day mission, as agreed after meticulous discussions, ...

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British queen makes historic peace trip to Ireland

The queen arrived 100 years after her grandfather George V visited Dublin and an Ireland that was still part of the British Empire. Police officers stand outside Dublin Castle on the eve of a historic trip by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. ...

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CSM: How will Ireland greet Queen Elizabeth?

Bitain's Queen Elizabeth will make a four day state visit to Ireland on Tuesday which is the first state visit by a British monarch since Ireland's independence. DUBLIN, Ireland â€" On May 17, Queen Elizabeth II will become the first British monarch to ...

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'Republican' bomb threat on eve of Queen's visit to Ireland

Photo: Reuters LONDON: Police received a bomb threat for central London from Irish republican paramilitaries, a day before a historic visit by the Queen to Ireland, Scotland Yard said. ''A bomb threat warning has been received relating to central ...

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Bombing families appeal to Queen

Bereaved relatives and survivors of bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in the 1970s have written an open letter to the Queen ahead of her Ireland visit. Campaign group Justice For The Forgotten believes the blasts were carried out by loyalist ...

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Ireland Steels Itself For A Visit From The Queen

12:00 pm ET Queen Elizabeth pays a state visit to the Republic of Ireland this week. The four-day trip is the first by a British Monarch in 100 years. Relations between the two nations have been tense since the Republic's 1921 independence and ...

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Tomblin Maloney win in W Va

Wealthy drilling executive Bill Maloney capsized establishment favorite Betty Ireland for the Republican nomination, the most substantial signal to date that the tea party movement continues to resonate six months after its historical midterm victories ...

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Ireland and the Empire: Divided by a shared history

By Fergal Keane The Queen's visit to Ireland will not only highlight the historical divisions between the UK and the Republic, it will also bring to mind the days when troops from both sides fought for the British Empire in African battlefields . ...

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Security tight for queen's Ireland visit

By Peter Taggart, For CNN (CNN) -- The biggest security operation ever seen in Ireland is being put in place ahead of Queen Elizabeth's visit next week. More than 6000 Irish police officers and Defence Forces troops -- army, navy and air corps -- will ...

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Ireland arrests dissidents before queen, Obama visits

The arrests come as Ireland prepares to roll out a major security operation for the first visit by a British monarch since independence, followed by Obama's trip to see his Irish roots. Police said that as part of an investigation of "threats to kill ...

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Catholic-Protestant leaders reappointed in Belfast

| AP DUBLIN â€" The Catholic and Protestant leaders of Northern Ireland's government have been appointed for new terms and plan to form a Cabinet next week. The peacemaking coalition led by First Minister Peter Robinson, a Protestant, and Deputy First ...

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Now visit UK, and travel to Ireland without visa

PTI | May 12, 2011, 07.02pm IST LONDON: Indians visiting Britain on tourist visas will soon be able to visit neighbouring Ireland without a visa, under a visa waiver programme announced in Dublin. The waiver programme will run from 1 July until October ...

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Q&A With Jedward, Ireland's Eurovision 2011 Contestants

Since then the blond-quiffed twins have been rebranded as 'Jedward,' raked in millions of dollars and won the right to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2011 with their song "Lipstick." John and Edward spoke with me ahead of Eurovision about their hair, ...

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Ireland says faster cutbacks would damage society

DUBLIN, May 11 (Reuters) - Accelerating cutbacks and tax increases could damage Ireland's economy and society, a senior government minister said on Wednesday after a thinktank called on Dublin to ramp up its efforts to reduce its deficit. ...

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Rehn says he expects rate cut for Ireland 'shortly'

OLLI REHN, EU economic affairs commissioner, said he expects a reduction in the rate of interest Ireland is charged for the EU element of the joint bailout with the IMF to be agreed “shortly”. He rejected arguments of a “moral hazard” (lack of ...

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Woman arrested over N. Ireland policeman murder

BELFAST, United Kingdom â€" Police on Tuesday arrested a woman in connection with the car bomb murder of a Catholic police officer in Northern Ireland last month, the fourth person detained in the investigation. "Detectives investigating the murder of ...

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Dáil told of support from EU for rate cut for Ireland

THE EUROPEAN commissioner for innovation has said there is strong support from the commission for a reduction in the interest rates Ireland pays for its EU loans. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn also stressed that Ireland's corporation tax rate could only be ...

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Alkermes to acquire Elan unit in $960 million deal

US drugmaker Alkermes Inc. is acquiring the drug-delivery division of Elan Corp. and move its headquarters from Massachusetts to Ireland, the two companies announced Monday in a deal worth $960 million. They both said the deal, in the works for at ...

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Honohan: I did not betray the state over bailout

Hitting back at stinging criticism from leading economist Morgan Kelly, the finance chief said he wanted to "nail" the claim he was not "playing for Ireland" due to his dual role on the ruling council of the European Central Bank. ...

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Morgan Kelly On How Ireland Can Save Itself From Bankruptcy

Ireland can save itself from bankruptcy by abandoning its banks and balancing its budget, according to University College Dublin economist Morgan Kelly. Kelly argues in The Irish Times that Ireland's ballooning deficit is the result of its banking ...

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Election ends with Kerr tribute

The Northern Ireland Assembly election, which reinforced the dominance of the DUP and Sinn Fein, has ended with a poignant tribute to the young policeman who was murdered as the campaign got under way. Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson ...

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Republic of Ireland to get 'EU loan rate reduction'

By Joe Lynam BBC News Ireland is to get an interest rate cut on the emergency loans it has acquired from EU bodies, the BBC has learned. Currently, Ireland pays an average rate of 5.8% on loans agreed with the IMF, fellow Eurozone countries and a ...

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N. Ireland Assembly vote changes little

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, May 6 (UPI) -- The two largest parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly picked up seats in Friday's vote count. Some of the results from Thursday's election were still unclear at midnight, the Belfast Telegraph reported. ...

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Low unionist turnout expected in Northern Ireland elections, says SDLP

Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Voter turnout in Northern Ireland will be higher in nationalist areas than in unionist strongholds, the nationalist SDLP has predicted. A party spokesman attending the main count in Belfast told the Guardian that in ...

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Bailout chief says Portugal's terms are as onerous as Ireland's

THE EUROPEAN Commission's chief negotiator of Portugal's €78 billion bailout has questioned claims by caretaker premier José Socrates that the package will be less onerous than the rescue plans for Ireland and Greece. “The programme is by no means ...

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Will Portuguese Bailout Unravel the EU?

Though Portugal's financial woes are not identical to those of Greece and Ireland, or the other European nations, all these EU member states suffer from government overspending, playing fast and loose with public debt, overly rosy economic analyses, ...

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Latest bailout rate may aid Ireland's case for a cut

THE INTEREST charge on Portugal's €78 billion bailout may not be known until European finance ministers sign off on the deal the week after next, but all signs point to a lower rate than on Ireland's loans. While that would boost the Government's case ...

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ECB Distracts Euro From Portugal's Problems

By Nicholas Hastings Here is the third euro-zone country to succumb to the sovereign debt crisis after Ireland and Greece. And here is more evidence that the divergence between the core and the peripheral members of this unholy union of economies is ...

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Augusta fades, not McIlroy

It was about 11 pm Sunday evening, and Rory McIlroy was with three mates from Northern Ireland at a rented house not far from Augusta National, having had dinner and a couple of beers. Earlier in the day, McIlroy had walked onto Augusta National's 10th ...

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Wildfires hit the Highlands, Ireland and north-west England

Photograph: Willie Fraser/National Trust For/PA Wild heathland fires are raging across parts of the Scottish Highlands, Ireland and north-west England after the record-breaking dry spell of last month, with flames being fanned by high winds over the ...

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Fire Service swamped with phone calls after gorse fires in Northern Ireland

A sudden surge of gorse fires taking place in areas across Northern Ireland have put the Fire Service under a tremendous strain as the public have inundated them with phone calls reporting new incidents. Although the cause of the fires as yet has not ...

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Ireland: Fins not 'desperate' for QB before draft

Jeff Ireland made it seem like the 'Fins weren't "desperate" for a signal caller. "I think we'll have to look in free agency if we're going to do that," Ireland said, per Andrew Carter of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "Certainly we'll look at all the ...

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Fires sweep Northern Ireland countryside

By Lindsay Fergus Embattled firefighters have had to deal with more than 1100 gorse fires in Northern Ireland in the last two weeks â€" a staggering 97% of which have been started deliberately. Over the weekend Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service ...

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Ireland's First Draft

It marked the first draft run entirely by Dolphins' GM Jeff Ireland and while it is far from being a successful one or a failure, in some ways it was still Bill Parcells and in other ways it was as far from BP as you could get. ...

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