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17/12/2011. Christmas Scenes Shoppers

According to the ESRI, from their latest report, Social Transfers and Poverty Alleviation in Ireland, 2004-2011; Ireland claims the top spot in Europe for AROP (At Risk of Poverty Rate).

The at-risk-of-poverty rate before social transfers is the share of persons with an equivalised disposable income, before social transfers, below the risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60% of the national median equivalised disposable income (after social transfers).

 

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The Best Little Country In…Which to Be At Risk of Poverty (Brian Lucey)

Previously: Best For Business

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Meat meant for dog food is believed to have ended up in the human food chain in an “industrial-scale” fraud carried out in Northern Ireland, a government report has found.

The Elliott Review into food supply said the fraud came to light in 2005. The report said the potential profit on about 1,000 tonnes of meat found was in the region of £3m. The report did not state where in Northern Ireland the so-called “Category 3 meat” was found, but it was located after officials traced a suspicious container that had arrived in Northern Ireland from Asia.

The report said it became evident “that the primary business of the cold store was repacking and re-labelling as fit for human consumption Cat 3 ABP meat”. Category 3 ABP meat is defined by government as meat that has been passed fit for human consumption but which is not intended to be eaten. It may include hides, hair, feathers and bones.

Dog food meat ‘ended up in human food chain’ says report (Conor Macauley, BBC News NI)

11/12/2013. CRC at PAC. Former CEO Paul Kiely foll[Paul Kiely, former chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic whose €200,000 pension pay off was revealed at the Public Accounts Committee meeting today followed by CRC chairman Jim Jim Nugent]

Chairman of the CRC Jim Nugent told the committee that  the organisation was contractually bound to pay salaries that were in excess of HSE levels. He said the CRC had presented these arrangements at a meeting in July 2009. David Martin, a director who was at that meeting with another former CEO, Des Peelo, said the HSE agreed that the CRC was to pay the shortfall to those with “legacy contracts”, who had been receiving pay in excess of HSE levels.

 

Former CRC Chief Executive received €200,000 pension payout (RTE)

Earlier: The Good Charities Guide

A Message To The Board

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The queue for the Allsop auction at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, earlier.

Allsop auction: Limerick city office block sells for over €3m (Joanna Kiernan, Irish Independent)

Previously: Smart, Ballsy, Foreign

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Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has been jailed for four years for fraud after using industrial-grade silicone in thousands of breast implants sold worldwide. The scandal first emerged in 2010 after doctors noticed abnormally high rupture rates in PIP implants. A global health scare erupted in 2011 with some 300,000 women in 65 countries believed to have received the faulty implants.

His victims can rest easy knowing that he is safely behind bras bars.

Chances of him bustin’ out soon are slim.

Etc.

PIP Breast Implant Boss Jean-Claude Mas Jailed (Sky News)