Northern Ireland parades: Nationalist anger at report of inquiry plan
A nationalist residents' group has said it is angered by reports of a government plan to set up a legal inquiry into the issue of parades. In July, unionist leaders called on the Northern Ireland secretary to set up a commission of inquiry. The call came ...
Trip to Ireland and abroad being planned
Saint Augustine once said, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” Macon County High School teacher Tammy Brawner wants students to read more than a page. Traveling abroad used to be for the rich and famous, but in today’s ...
Children's heart surgery in Northern Ireland should "move to Dublin" says experts
A team of international experts has recommended that children's cardiac surgery in Northern Ireland should move to Dublin. The International Working Group (IWG) reached its conclusion because of an insufficient number of patients in Belfast. Hundreds of ...
Northern Ireland gets health minister who opposes abortion for raped women
Northern Ireland’s new health minister is a Democratic Unionist party assembly member who believes that women made pregnant through rape should not be allowed an abortion. The first minister, Peter Robinson, appointed Jim Wells, the DUP member for South ...
Wall Street Reacts To Obama Administration's Move To Stop Companies From ...
Wall Street reacted on Tuesday to the Obama administration's regulatory moves to try to stop companies from leaving America via tax-lowering mergers and deals with companies in foreign jurisdictions. Shares of companies with so-called inversion deals pending fell on Tuesday morning, suggesting that ...
Wall Street Reacts To Obama Administration's Move To Stop Companies From ...
Wall Street reacted on Tuesday to the Obama administration's regulatory moves to try to stop companies from leaving America via tax-lowering mergers and deals with companies in foreign jurisdictions. Shares of companies with so-called inversion deals pending fell on Tuesday morning, suggesting that ...
Some thoughts and a lot of facts concerning the State of the Nation
For the benefit, mainly, of those outside the UK who may be bewildered about what’s going on. Or for those among my local acquaintance who don’t know my stance yet and were perhaps wondering. I have tried hard to avoid hyperbole and sarcasm, so the text is less entertaining than it could be, but mor ...
Google to spend $772 million on data center in the Netherlands
Google said that it's making a four-year investment into the construction of a new data center in the Netherlands. The data center being built in Eemshaven will cost the company approximately $772 million to construct (€600 million). The new data center marks the fourth built in Europe, following co ...
Some thoughts and a lot of facts concerning the State of the Nation
For the benefit, mainly, of those outside the UK who may be bewildered about what’s going on. Or for those among my local acquaintance who don’t know my stance yet and were perhaps wondering. I voted YES. I have tried hard to avoid hyperbole and sarcasm, so the text is less entertaining than it coul ...
TTT Books On My Fall To-Be-Read List
Here I come with my to-be-read list for the fall which to be honest was not that hard to put together mainly thanks to the generous book loan I have had from Azahara recently :D Comment and tell us what is on your list! 1. Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone 2. Broken Prince by Jen Wylie 3. Rule ...
38 hours well spent
Some thoughts and a lot of facts concerning the State of the Nation For the benefit, mainly, of those outside the UK who may be bewildered about what’s going on. Or for those among my local acquaintance who don’t know my stance yet and were perhaps wondering. I have tried hard to avoid hyperbole and ...
Destination Europe One-Day Workshop & Networking Opportunity
Friday October 17, 2014 8:00a.m.-5:15p.m. At Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center 84 5th Street N.W Atlanta, GA. 30308 The European Commission and representative of European Union Member State, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and Sweden, will present research funding and colla ...
New US tax rules chill 'inversion' deal
Credit: Reuters/Chris Helgren The Burger King logo is seen through a Tim Horton's doughnut hole in a photo illustration outside a restaurant in Toronto August 29, 2014. But it was unclear whether the tougher stance adopted by the Obama administration on 'inversion' deals that allow companies to esca ...
Cheers Love!
We are now on day 14 of our trip and the past two weeks have managed to fly by while going equally as slow. We have ventured from London to Nottingham, Notthingham to Liverpool and Liverpool to Manchester. We did the first trek of our trip by bus and a small piece of advice: NEVER TRAVEL BY BUS IN T ...
