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Wallis Ltd Closing on Grafton St with 45% Cut in Redundancy
It was a sad day on Grafton Street today as former employees of Wallis Retail (Ireland) Ltd picketed outside its doors in objection to the closure of the chain store. Tomorrow, 19th October, Wallis, which is a part of the Arcadia multiples Ireland Group,…
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Twitter to be Wall Street’s hottest tech debut since Facebook
The online social networking and microblogging site is to flood the stock market next month when its shares will be made available on Wall Street. The popular website, launched in 2006, has an estimated net value of between $12 billion and $15 billion.…
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Anti-social behaviour still a problem on Red Line Luas
Red Line Luas users are still subjected to frequent anti-social incidents, despite additional security and Gardaí patrols. Though that particular Luas line has become infamous in recent years, the frequency with which incidents take place (of which only a fraction are actually reported)…
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Out of control car kills Irish teenager in New York
Last Friday evening, Kalie Gill, a 15-year old Irish teenager from Co. Leitrim was knocked down and killed by a car in Coyne Park in Yonkers. Kalie and her sister had been attending a church carnival, when, just after 9pm., a car driven…
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Budget Day met with lacklustre protest
By Greg Synnott, Michael Coleman and Saoirse Ivory A series of tax adjustments and cuts were announced by Minister Michael Noonan in yesterday’s budget. The City were outside government buildings when the announcement was made. The €2.5 billion plan included €900 million in…
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Is the Irish Economy Finally back on track?
There has been much talk in recent weeks and months to suggest that Ireland may finally be on the up and up, after many years of foundering in the mires of economic recession. In the past month Ireland’s rate of recovery has been…
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What will our Court of Appeal do?
On October 4th we as a nation passed the 33rd Amendment of the Constitution in the Court of Appeal referendum. The yes vote consented to the establishment of a new fifth layer to Ireland’s judicial system, a new Court of Appeal which will operate as…
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Hungarian Students Strip in Protest of New Dress Code
A class of Hungarian undergraduate art students and their professor have stripped down to their underwear in protest against new university dress code rules. The president of Kaposvar University, Ferenc Szavai, issued a letter to students featuring strict new uniform rules to be…
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Mes Que Un Derby
In all walks of life there are divides, tensions, battles, opposition, and rivalries. Sport is no exception, all of the world’s biggest sports have intense derbies and rivalries. In Gymnastics, it’s the USA and China, in baseball, it’s the Yankees and the Red…
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Roll out of Xtra-vision vending machines
Xtra-vision have rolled out DVD and game rental vending-machine kiosks throughout Dublin. The concept was created by the UK company Hilco, which recently took over Xtra-vision and HMV. The vending machines will function very much like the company “Redbox” in the United States and Canada. The kiosks offer…
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