WE’RE HEARING this lunchtime that the four Dublin local authorities – including the city council and the county councils of Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown – will cut municipal water services from 7pm tonight until about 7am tomorrow morning, in an effort to conserve supplies after many householders began leaving taps running after the cold weather hit. The outage will affect an estimated 1.1 million people.
Dublin Water
# dublin-water - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Drinking water in Clontarf ‘reaching safe levels’ but warnings still in place
Meanwhile, some Tipperary residents will be boiling their water for another 24 hours after a possible contamination.
# dublin-water - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Dublin water restrictions still in place to ‘protect public health’
And read why one local resident in the Clontarf area is hoping for a particularly speedy resolution…
# dublin-water - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Dublin water disruption: Tests show ‘improvement’ in supply
Authorities have released further information on the contamination of water in Clontarf.
# dublin-water - Tuesday 7 December, 2010
# dublin-water - Sunday 8 August, 2010
REPAIR WORK ON the damaged watermain at Marrowbone Lane, Dublin, has been completed. Dublin City Council said yesterday evening that normal supply should be restored to all areas by last night.
The pipe burst on Friday afternoon, leaving thousands of people without water as repair work was carried out.
Some areas in the north of the city were served fresh water via tankers.  The Swords Road, Beaumont Road, and Ballymun Road were all supplied with tankers until 7pm yesterday.
The council said that while some residents may have seen discoloured water coming through their taps, the water would clear as the water supply returned to normal. Residents are still urged to conserve their use of water to help normalise water pressure.
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AT A HIGH-profile US Senate meeting, technology giant Apple was accused of using Ireland as a ‘tax haven’.
The multinational firm, which employs 4,000 people in Ireland, reportedly avoided paying €34 billion in US taxes by negotiating a tax rate of less than 2 per cent with the Irish government – significantly lower than that nation’s 12.5 per cent statutory rate.
The Senate heard that American children are losing out on education because Apple is transferring profits to Irish subsidiaries.
However, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied that Ireland is a tax haven and rejected claims that authorities had negotiated deals with multi-national companies.
So, today we want to know, what do you think? Should Ireland be tougher on multi-national companies when it comes to tax?
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