Republic Of Ireland News
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Robert Ireland and John Bryars are from opposite sides of the 40-foot concrete walls that still embody the sectarian divide in Belfast. Fifteen years after a peace agreement was supposed to replace violence with prosperity, they are united only by unemployment.
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Rory Cullinan runs the world’s worst bank from a fifth-floor office overlooking Liverpool Street station in London. His 400-person outfit doesn’t lend money or trade securities. Instead, it sells blown-out mortgages, busted loans and entire companies amassed by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc before it collapsed in the global financial crash of 2008. On a Friday afternoon in February, Cullinan is savoring a new feeling in his life as a toxic-asset disposal specialist: hope that the worst is finally over.
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Hilco U.K. Ltd., a firm that specializes in rescuing failed retailers, acquired 141 stores belonging to collapsed U.K. CD and DVD retailer HMV Group Plc and said it will seek to restore the business to health.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc has channelled the equivalent of almost a third of its 45.5 billion- pound ($69 billion) government rescue into bailing out its Irish division after real estate loans soured.
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A Northern Ireland court threw out businessman Sean Quinn’s voluntary bankruptcy in the U.K., ruling that his primary business activities were in the Republic of Ireland.
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Ireland soccer team coach Giovanni Trapattoni was discharged from hospital this morning after undergoing abdominal surgery, the Football Association of Ireland said in a statement.
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Ireland’s credit rating was cut three levels by Fitch Ratings to the lowest of any of the major rating companies after the country sought international assistance last month to rescue its banks.
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The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland is scheduled to open today, with opponents preparing a protest outside its doors in central Belfast.
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The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland is scheduled to open today, as around 150 protesters gathered outside its doors in central Belfast.
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Mick McCarthy, former manager of the Republic of Ireland, joined Ipswich Town on a contract that runs until mid-2015, the club said.
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