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There is Irish interest today, as anything other than a win for Scotland will mean the Boys in Green can secure a play-off spot at least by beating Wales tomorrow.
Concerns about jobs at the IFSC are among the reasons that Ireland has not signed up to implementing a levy on financial transactions despite Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany and France all doing so.
The website, set up by the far-right Freedom Party, asks people to report central and east Europeans “for general nuisance, pollution and labour market displacement.”
POLICE IN SLOVENIA have arrested a computer hacker who they believe is responsible for unleashing a virus that affected over 12 million computers across the world.
It is believed that the 23-year-old is the creator of the programme behind the Mariposa Virus – otherwise known as the “butterfly bot” – which was developed to steal financial details and was even found in the systems of banks and major companies.
The programme was a so-called “botnet”; a malicious virus that can be remotely controlled by hackers and programmed to do a range of tasks from sending spam emails to collecting bank information.
Three men were arrested in Spain last year in connection with managing the Mariposa Virus.
The virus’s code was reportedly changed every 48 hours to deceive anti-virus software programmes. However, botnets become faster to detect the wider they spread across networks, and the Mariposa Virus spread unusually far.
The arrested man had not been identified, and is known only as “Iserdo”.
WITH STILL NO end in sight for Ireland’s housing crisis, some argue relaxing height restriction on buildings could help ease the problem.
Others argue it’s an expensive option and doesn’t make housing more affordable for the average person.
Last December, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy advised that a height increase in Irish cities was crucial to meet future challenges, with new guidelines published under the National Planning Framework.
The minister later said that it would be one aspect that could help ease the housing crisis, making more accommodation available across the country.
It’s hard to argue with the economics of supply and demand.
In a recent Fora column, BNP Paribas Ireland managing director Kenneth Rouse argued that high-rise projects do not necessarily correlate to greater density in Dublin, with many taller “showpiece developments” geared towards wealthier tenants.
Keeping that in mind, we are asking Fora readers this week: Do you think taller buildings will ease Ireland’s housing crisis?
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