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Pat Rabbitte denies saying 'Government has no plan'

A number of leading businessmen have told the Sunday Independent that Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said that the Government is unable to formulate a plan to deal with the economy such is the speed and ever-changing nature of the crisis.

Supporters of the Greek Communist Party in Athens last week as June 17 was set for a new election

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Former head of the ECB, Jean Claude Trichet. Photo: Getty Images

ECB insiders feather nests as euro hangs by a thread

JEAN Claude Trichet, the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB) whose tenure included the Irish banking crisis and the European debt shambles, bagged a share of the €640,000 in special payments made to executive board members of the Frankfurt-headquartered bank last year -- on top of his €309,000 wage packet.

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Alexis Dormandy: Why Facebook is a pioneer in the word-of-mouth revolution that will change all our lives

FIFTEEN years ago, a book was published called The Truth Machine. It suggests a world in which everyone wears an infallible lie detector, and describes the effect this has on everything thing from crime to job interviews to the inability to tell white lies. Some of these changes are obvious, many of the knock-on effects much less so.

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Keane looking forward to Euros

Robbie Keane will lead the Republic of Ireland into battle in Poland and Ukraine next month.

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Billion bucks for Facebook founder

With the initial offer price of $38, Facebook's shares were already set at the high end of a range the company set earlier in the week and values the company at $104bn. The price makes Facebook more valuable than Amazon, which also trades on the Nasdaq. Early trading was delayed until 11.30amn by the volume of shares being bought and sold. More than 82m shares were traded in the first 30 seconds.

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Earley and Cavanagh gearing up for Championship entrance

Former Tyrone All Star Sean Cavanagh and his Kildare counterpart Dermot Earley are eager to get their Championship summer underway. Provincial action in both Leinster and Ulster begins this Sunday with Donegal opening their Ulster title defense against Cavan and a series

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