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Their parents fled Africa as refugees in the 1960s. Now they want to ship migrants to Rwanda Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister,  Priti...

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This is my sequel to the article 'Leprechaun economics continue to distort Ireland's statistics ' which documents the continuin...

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In the European Union, large companies only account for 0.2% of enterprises but almost 36% of employment. In August 2021 the CSO (the Irish ...

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