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AMAZON RECRUITS ALMOST ALL OF ITS STAFF HERE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE EU
There has been some fretting in the past two days over the possible impact of the European Court of Justice decision to uphold a 2016 finding by the European Commission that Apple in Ireland had been using the Irish tax system as a means to avoid paying tax at a higher rate on its global earnings.
Ireland funding construction of 50 modular homes in Ukraine
Plenty of money for Ukrainians but none for the 14,000 homeless Irish.
Ireland has provided €1.5 million to the agency for the construction of 50 units.
Father of 11-Year-Old Boy Killed by Haitian Migrant Says He Wished His Son Had Been “Killed by a 60-Year-Old White Man Instead”
To stop Trump campaign using death for political purposes.
Apple tax windfall won’t impact Budget, Jack Chambers says as €13bn transfer will take ‘months’
It will be “months” before Ireland receives its €13bn Apple windfall, according to Finance Minister Jack Chambers.
ON THIS DAY: 11 OF SEPTEMBER: Cromwell Massacres Drogheda
On the 10th of September, in 1649, Oliver Cromwell sat encamped outside the city of Drogheda with his 12,000-strong army and 11 siege cannons. They had already opened two large breaches in the town’s walls, as they were thin medieval structures and not designed to withstand cannon fire.
A PREDICTABLY SHALLOW DEBATE UNLIKELY TO PROVE DECISIVE IN US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
If betting odds are an indication as to who won last night’s debate, then the winner by a nose, or even a short head, was Vice President Kamala Harris.