Record Companies Seek To Ban Technological Progress
In what has been called the world’s greatest act of legislation, four music companies and internet service provider Eircom have agreed to combine their powers to end illegal music downloading once and for all. The settlement brought to an end an eight-day trial in which the music companies were suing Eircom over encouraging illegal downloading [...]
250 Jobs To Go In Limerick Drug Gangs Merger
Limerick city – economists predict the redundancies will have a devastating effect on the local economy. Limerick’s notorious Keane family has announced 250 redundancies within its network due its merger with former rivals the Dundon-McCarthy criminal gang. Some 200 of the redundancies will come from within Limerick City itself with the remainder from the wider [...]
TDs Mark Dáil’s 90th Anniversary By Watching Obama Inauguration On The Telly
TDs impatiently wait for Mr Cowen’s speech to conclude so they can go watch Barack Obama’s swearing in. Irish politicians yesterday paid respects to the first Dáil of 1919 by watching the blanket television coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony. Before tuning to witness the swearing in of the first African-American US president, Taoiseach Brian [...]
Financial Regulator Steps Down In Response To Banks’ “Money-Abuse” Revelations
Money abuse has been a growing problem in Western economies. There has been a broad welcome to the announcement that Patrick Neary will retire from his position as chief executive of the Financial Regulator as of January 31. He has been under pressure since the recent report on abuse within the banking system found the [...]
