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Ireland

25 Jun 2012

Expatriate investors tend to monitor property prices in their home countries carefully. Anna Healy Fenton looks for signs of a recovery in the battered Irish housing market.

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Ireland passes IMF/EU bailout review

19 Jul 2013

Ireland is on track to exit its bailout later this year after passing its penultimate review by lenders, even with the economy in recession and uncertainty about the country’s banking sector...

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Ireland in recession as bailout exit approaches

28 Jun 2013

Ireland’s economy slid into recession late last year and continued to contract sharply in early this year, new and revised figures showed on Thursday, just months before it is due to exit its EU/...

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Irish central bank to investigate audio of senior bankers laughing at regulators

27 Jun 2013

Ireland’s central bank will investigate whether tapes of senior bankers laughing at regulators contain evidence rules were broken during the 2008 rescue of failed lenders that eventually led to...

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Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions

1 May 2013

Ireland’s government has published a long-awaited bill explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice.

6:56PM

Mystery Hong Kong woman gives Irish church 100,000 euros

14 Apr 2013

You could call it manna from heaven, a parish priest in Ireland got the shock of his life last week when a mystery woman from Hong Kong appeared on the doorstep of his church and handed him a €100...

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Opinion

Is Frederick Ma readying himself for a political comeback?

11:13PM

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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12:54AM

Scotland comeback against Ireland pleases coach

Ireland had more than 70 per cent territory and possession in Sunday's match and led 8-0 early in the second half after wing Craig Gilroy scored the only try of the game.

4:57AM

Irish PM sorry for suffering of 'fallen women' at church-run laundries

More than 10,000 women were sent to the Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996 where they worked for no pay while the religious orders ran the laundries as commercial bodies.

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Ireland's home prices in November rise at fastest pace in six years

Ireland's home values rose at the fastest pace in more than six years in November as the country recovered from Europe's worst real-estate crash.

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MARKET CRISIS

Ex-IRA man's road to ruin likely to be repeated across Ireland

Few people represent the extremes of Ireland's recent history more than Thomas McFeely.

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UNITED STATES

Clinton fails to silence talk husband Bill craves job of envoy to Ireland

Is Ireland big enough for Bill Clinton?

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RUGBY UNION

Ireland face Argentina ‘Cup Final’

Ireland are banking on the players that narrowly lost to South Africa to do the business against Argentina in Dublin on Saturday, in a Test match the hosts are labelling a ‘Cup Final’.

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