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Members of the regional youth organisation of the Swiss Liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) stick a mock wanted poster showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on a lamp post in Zurich

Revenue to seek Swiss bank data

Tuesday February 09 2010

IRISH officials will ask their German counterparts for details of any local tax dodgers listed on a CD containing tax-sensitive data which Germany is buying from an informant for €2.5m.

50pc jump in number applying to attend UK colleges

Tuesday February 09 2010

THE number of Irish students applying for university places in Britain and Northern Ireland has rocketed by 50pc this year.

Take advantage of free FIFA offer

Tuesday February 09 2010

  • Tired of shelling out every year for a new FIFA game? Developer EA is planning a free downloadable version for your PC later this year. Sign up for out the beta version at www.fifa-online.easports.com
  • Free Dublin paper Metro Herald has released a smart iPhone app to enable you read every day's edition on the go. The website's not bad either: e-edition.metroireland.ie
  • Don't tell me you're still using Internet Explorer 6? The security of that web browser has more holes than Swiss cheese and everyone from France to Germany has warned people to avoid it. Upgrade to IE8 or, better still, try Firefox or Opera -- both free and more powerful.
  • Amazon has been forced to raise prices for certain books after a stand-off with publisher Macmillan.

Grid again plays havoc with quotes

Tuesday February 09 2010

Our soccer fans are not the only ones facing long journeys in the foreseeable future. If we want to get beef to a viable level our processors have just as far to travel on prices. While Giovanni Trapattoni's followers will often be travelling east, cattle prices need to go northwards in direction -- and fast.

Live exports to settle near 100,000 head

Tuesday February 09 2010

Live exports of sheep are set to continue as a feature of the mart trade this year, with Bord Bia predicting that the number of sheep exported live will be maintained.

A student explains his invention to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (on left) during the National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran yesterday

While the world dithers, Iran is getting closer to a nuclear bomb

Tuesday February 09 2010

THE attempt to talk Iran down from its nuclear ambitions is going badly. Yesterday, Tehran formally told the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog, that it would move further ahead with its uranium-enrichment programme. This will take it one big step closer to a nuclear-weapons capability.

Gustav with his family when they first arrived in Ireland

Nazi conscript salutes Dublin youth for sparing him horrors of Russian front

Monday February 08 2010

THE only Dubliner known to have served in the Nazi army has revealed how his Irish background saved his life.

Farmers to escape a sudden cut in CAP payments

Monday February 08 2010

IRISH farmers will escape a sudden sharp drop in their EU farm payments with changes likely to be phased in over seven years.

Poor standard of maths and science 'costs €8bn a year'

Monday February 08 2010

IRELAND could be an average of €8bn a year better off if today's 15-year-olds were world-class students of science and maths.

Cowardice is the new religion

Monday February 08 2010

David Quinn was right to highlight the fact that Irish politicians are "disastrously and shamefully" all too happy to impose a new absolutism of equality espoused in the UK by left-wing pressure groups ('Religious freedoms under attack from equality laws', Irish Independent, February 5).