# financial-crisis - Saturday 4 May, 2013
The cuts should save an estimated €4.8 billion by 2015.
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# financial-crisis - Saturday 20 April, 2013
Professor Danny Dorling – once described as a “geographer royal” – says these images tell us more than we might have known.
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# financial-crisis - Monday 28 January, 2013
A European court ruled today that Iceland was entitled to refuse to pay immediate deposit guarantees to savers when a major bank collapsed.
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# financial-crisis - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Some you may remember from school, but some are lesser known ones – like one perfected by an Irishman which allowed for development of modern passenger jets.
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# financial-crisis - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Ireland has been declared a ‘special case’ by Angela Merkel – and these figures show exactly why, writes Michael Taft.
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# financial-crisis - Thursday 27 December, 2012
“As austerity bites to the knuckle, soup kitchens spring up around the country and children are sent to school hungry. It just seems so terribly wrong.”
HURRAH! Break out the champagne and foie gras…
# financial-crisis - Friday 26 October, 2012
One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work, with 85,000 more people becoming unemployed between July and September.
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# financial-crisis - Thursday 18 October, 2012
While not originally on the agenda, there is speculation Spain may ask for a limited bailout in Brussels.
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# financial-crisis - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
From Business ETC Tobin Tax
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The Finance Minister said Ireland would not adopt the tax unless Britain also did – over fears Irish jobs could be lost to London.
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# financial-crisis - Saturday 29 September, 2012
And one Irish political saga that is just too bizarre even for a plotline on the British political sitcom….
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# financial-crisis - Sunday 15 July, 2012
The comments from Wen Jiabao follow news on Friday that China’s economy grew by 7.6 per cent, the lowest since the first quarter of 2009.
# financial-crisis - Thursday 12 July, 2012
Six people were hospitalised and several arrested in yesterday after police fired rubber bullets at crowds demonstrating against severe new austerity measures.
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# financial-crisis - Tuesday 10 July, 2012
From The Score LOI
Lilywhites supporters will come together at Oriel Park tonight.
# financial-crisis - Monday 18 June, 2012
Roberto Unger – a former Brazilian minister under whom the current President studied – says Obama’s lost his way.
# financial-crisis - Sunday 10 June, 2012
Spain
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Plus, the reaction from the Spanish press.
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# financial-crisis - Monday 21 May, 2012
Your quick guide to current proposals for a commmon euro-area bond.
# financial-crisis - Saturday 19 May, 2012
From Business ETC G8
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Leaders also spoke of ensuring high standards of the ‘protection and enforcement’ of intellectual property rights.
Energy will also be on the agenda, as the world looks to the oil markets in advance of scheduled sanctions on Iranian oil exports.
# financial-crisis - Saturday 12 May, 2012
On a ‘No’ vote: Economist Terrence McDonough says evoking fear in people over the recession is not an appropriate move by government.
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# financial-crisis - Thursday 3 May, 2012
A letter by Al-Qaeda’s American spokesman says Ireland was ripe for conversion because of its ‘sympathy’ for Palestine.
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# financial-crisis - Monday 23 April, 2012
Geir Haarde led the government when the country’s banks collapsed in October 2008.
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# financial-crisis - Tuesday 17 April, 2012
Spain’s 10 year bond yields have traded above six per cent for a second day as the country prepares for bond auctions on 12- and 18-month bills.
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# financial-crisis - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
The majority of residents in a small Spanish village last night voted in favour of growing cannabis to pay off municipal debt – but not the 75 per cent needed.
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# financial-crisis - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
The town of Rasquera, with a population of 960 people, will decide on whether to lease land to cannabis-growers in order to pay off debts.
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Financial information services company Markit has produced a table detailing the 10 countries with the widest credit default swap spreads…
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# financial-crisis - Wednesday 4 April, 2012
The retired pharmacist left a note linking his suicide with the country’s financial crisis.
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# financial-crisis - Tuesday 3 April, 2012
From Business ETC IMF
Christine Lagarde said that the global recovery is growing stronger but still is very fragile.
# financial-crisis - Tuesday 27 March, 2012
The economic crisis has caused severe hardship for many – but it has also exposed our financial system for the sham it is, writes Rob Heyland.
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# financial-crisis - Friday 9 March, 2012
The cash-strapped Glasgow club are hoping to keep redundancies down after the latest announcement.
# financial-crisis - Sunday 4 March, 2012
The Taoiseach acknowledged many people are concerned for the future, but said Ireland has “great potential”.
# financial-crisis - Sunday 19 February, 2012
The financial crisis was sparked by a broken system. If we’re going to fix this we can’t leave it up to politicians, write Bronagh Geraghty and John Hughes.
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# financial-crisis - Saturday 31 December, 2011
The German chancellor’s New Year’s televised address to her nation included a vow to save the euro.
# financial-crisis - Wednesday 28 December, 2011
European banks deposited a record €412 billion with the ECB overnight – showing that banks are worried about loaning money to each other.
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# financial-crisis - Friday 16 December, 2011
Moody’s already rates Ireland’s bonds as junk – but now says that that outlook for Belgium is “negative”.
# financial-crisis - Monday 28 November, 2011
Yes, banks housed deceitful, corrupt fat cats – but it was the rest of us who got the blame, writes bank worker Patrick Ryan.
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# financial-crisis - Thursday 24 November, 2011
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said today that global financial woes mean it can’t pledge any more funding until 2014.
# financial-crisis - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy doesn’t want to see us drop the euro – but if it’s a choice between staying in the eurozone or keeping control of our domestic fiscal affairs…
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# financial-crisis - Sunday 18 September, 2011
During a heated debate Alexander Lebedev floored his opponent, later writing: “I neutralised him.”
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# financial-crisis - Thursday 25 August, 2011
A new Chambers Dictionary includes “BFF” and “unfriending” – but not “sexting”. Find out which other words made the cut…
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