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Ireland moves up road-safety league

Monday February 08 2010

IRELAND now ranks 10th in the table of safest roads worldwide.

Don Gormleone lost in personal battles

Sunday February 07 2010

Last June I introduced you all to Don Gormleone. A character based loosely on our own Environment Minister, but one who seemed to leap fully formed from the pages of Mario Puzo with a brief diversion to the volumes of James Herriot to kit himself out in a sturdy tweed jacket and a nice pair of cords. Don Gormleone is a man of boundless self-belief whose schoolmaster air struggles unsuccessfully to conceal a temper of volcanic proportions and a penchant for vendettas and grudges that makes your average Sicilian goombah look like the disappointed runner-up in the Greystones ICA rhubarb tart competition.

Back to black: AOL struggles into profit

Thursday February 04 2010

AOL's maiden results as a newly independent company showed the group had swung from a $1.9bn loss in the last quarter of 2008 to a profit of $1.4m a year later, but was still haemorrhaging subscibers.

Profits disappoint as Electrolux is hit by rise in raw material costs

Thursday February 04 2010

ELECTROLUX, the world's second-biggest appliance maker, disappointed the markets yesterday after fourth-quarter profits were less than expected.

Finance
Minister Brian
Lenihan is
set to extend
the scheme
axed by then
Finance
Minister Brian
Cowen

Lenihan to reverse Cowen's axing of tax incentives for foreign bosses

Thursday February 04 2010

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is to complete a U-turn on Taoiseach Brian Cowen's removal of tax incentive for foreign executives in Ireland, as the Government focuses on attracting investment.

Quinn overseas firm hit by Anglo losses

Thursday February 04 2010

Huge losses incurred by Sean Quinn's family on their stake in Anglo Irish Bank has even ended up damaging the performance of the Quinn firm which owns assets in Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and India.

Irish team to donate Nations Cup winnings to Haiti charity

Wednesday February 03 2010

The Irish show jumping team competing at this week's inaugural CSIO in Abu Dhabi will donate any prize-money they win in Friday's €100,000 Nations Cup to the Haiti disaster relief fund.

David McWilliams: We're all fools if we think recovery plan is patriotic

Wednesday February 03 2010

It's been nearly 18 months since the Government announced its bank guarantee. Anglo Irish Bank was nationalised over a year ago and it is coming up to a year since the Government first mooted the NAMA plan. Yet nothing has actually been done since then. Not a single loan has been transferred to NAMA. There has been lots of talk, lots of bluster and point scoring, but still credit in the economy contracts, house prices continue their slow strangling decline and, most significantly, the rest of the world has moved on.