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Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has broken Gerd Müller's 40-year record of 85 league and international goals in a calend...

From Bengal tigers to unproven actors, Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" pushes the limits of book-to-film adaptations. WSJ Off Duty ta...

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Average annual earnings fell to €35,905 in 2011 from €36,117 in 2010, a decrease of 0.6%. This compares with a revised fall of 1.9% between...

Irish Economy:  Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech last night in which he said: "Such is the scale of th...

Colm McCarthy, UCD economist, wrote in The Sunday Independent yesterday: "Spare a thought for Clare County Council. On Monday, it em...

Eamon Gilmore, Ireland's Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) this week told an international audience via CNBC, that Ireland...

The Irish Economy blog has a thread on a comment article today in the Financial Times by two Spanish academics, who call on the prime min...

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Irish Economy 2012: Daft.ie reports today that while the average asking price in the capital did fall in Q2 (by 1.2%), taking the first ha...

Ireland is among countries where private sector workers face huge falls in pensions income. In the period 2001-10 in the 34 mainly OECD de...

An article by Derek Scally, German correspondent of The Irish Times, on Chancellor Merkel, was published on June 02, 2012. This was my ...

Shane Ross TD, a non-party right-wing member of the Dáil (Irish Parliament) has taken a brave step that is consistent with the rare evidence...

The Irish Department of Finance has published updated projections for the public finances. The current deficit reduction plan rests on rela...