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THE state forked out €11m on consultants who gave outdated advice to chase a no-win €10m VAT lawsuit through the courts.
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THE state forked out €11m on consultants who gave outdated advice to chase a no-win €10m VAT lawsuit through the courts.
AN IRISHMAN and a British businesswoman could be jailed for three years after they were accused of having sex in a taxi in Dubai.
RTE will show 31 games during Euro 2012 .Montrose will broadcast 27 of these games live, with the other four simultaneous games shown later.
A FORMER garda who stole thousands of euros from colleagues and an elderly woman has been sentenced to three years.
THE SON of Independent TD Mick Wallace is one of four students who have been expelled from a well known southside Dublin school for posting abusive sexual allegations about their teachers on Facebook.
SAMANTHA Brick, the journalist who decried women for being jealous of her "lovely looks", has taken a swipe at French women including the new first lady of France, Valerie Trierweiler.
A WOMAN claims she had an affair with a married US Secret Service agent she met in a Dublin nightclub during President Barack Obama's Irish visit last year.
RATINGS agency Moody’s is poised to downgrade up to 21 Spanish banks as Spain saw its borrowing costs rise sharply, according to reports today.
THE estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr has been found dead in her New York home after an apparent suicide.
A COURAGOUS little girl who raised over €11,000 for a children’s hospital that treated her, lost her battle against a rare children’s cancer this morning.
The Pentagon has unveiled a top-secret model of Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan, which was used by intelligence officials to plan the raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader.
HEALTH Minister James Reilly today slammed Tallaght Hospital after a damning report by watchdog agency HIQA.
A MAN who was involved in kidnapping a 16-year-old and holding him for ransom has been jailed for seven years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
THE families of six men shot dead in a sectarian massacre have praised football chiefs after they agreed to let the Republic of Ireland mark the atrocity at Euro 2012.
A SURVIVAL plan for Eircom is expected to be approved at creditors meetings tomorrow after the High Court today rejected what was described, by the companies and their examiner, as an attempt by a competitor to "derail" the examinership process.
Brad Pitt has reportedly been invited for a round of golf by his new neighbours in south-west London.
THE presiding judge at the UN trial of Ratko Mladic has delayed indefinitely the presentation of evidence that had been scheduled to start later this month due to "significant disclosure errors" by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defence lawyers.
SIMON Cowell has criticised talent shows which are a "bad copy" of The X Factor and said he was "puzzled" by BBC show The Voice.
WHITE births in the United States are no longer in the majority, according to new data from the US Census Bureau.
IF you have attended a Leinster Rugby fixture during this potentially historic season you may have noticed some of the banners displayed on match days. There are some particularly catchy slogans adorning the Anglesea stand; "Sexton’s on fire" and "In BOD we trust" pay homage to two of the side’s biggers names.
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FORMER Taoiseach Charlie Haughey's Abbeville mansion has gone on the market for a fraction of the €45m he sold it for a decade ago.
GOOGLE is to add more context to search results, in a bid to understand ‘what you mean’ and provide instant answers.
THOUSANDS of Ryanair passengers due to travel over the weekend have been warned to check-in online before Friday evening, or face paying extra at the airport.
A TEENAGE girl who thought she was just lazy has overcome leukaemia after recognising her lethargic symptoms in a character in a Cameron Diaz film.
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