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Refinitiv, the global financial data firm, says that 2021 has been a record year for mergers and firm acquisitions (M&A) across the w...

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said that "since the mid-1990s, the average real wage has increase...

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The majority of people cannot identify which lifestyle moves are the most effective at limiting their carbon footprint, according to an Ipso...

The Irish Government's decision to sign on to the OECD-G20 international tax reform package which is expected to be approved at the end...

Minera Escondida, located in Antofagasta, Chile, is the world's largest copper mine, producing almost 5% of the world's supply of me...

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis, the renowned Greek composer died earlier this month, at the age of 96. He was best known for the musi...

President de Valera kisses the ring of John Charles McQuaid, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, at the Turning of the Sod ceremony for the new ...

The Moon and Earth's Troposphere: Silver-blue noctilucent clouds are shown extending far above the orange-coloured troposphere, the low...

Thirty-five years ago on January 9th 1986 Michael Heseltine, British Defence Secretary, gathered his papers at a meeting of the Cabinet and...

Among the world's top 10 most populous countries India and the United States in the past stood out as free democracies. Neither is tod...

Humans, chimpanzees and bonobos were descended from a single ancestor species that lived 6 to 7m years ago. Humans and their closest cousin...

IDA Ireland 1984: Engineering graduates of University College Dublin (UCD). "It's a fact that Ireland produces more computer scienc...

At the end of June 2021, Denmark's National Bank (central bank) reported that Danish households' net financial wealth was kr (krone...

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China has moved from being a moderately unequal country in 1990 to being one of the most unequal countries according to the International Mo...

Aztec emperor Moctezuma II on the balcony of his palace before his murder by Spanish captors in June 1520. Library of US Congress A Hendrick...

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, at home on his deathbed. A picture of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is on the mantelpiece....