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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform  Pachal Donohoe (right) and The Fine Gael Minister for Finance Michael Noonan  at Government Buildings this afternoon

This afternoon.

With the Cabinet agreeing to appeal the decision that ireland gave illegal state aid worth 13bn Euro to Apple….the following is reportedly what was agreed:

1. Arrange for annulment proceedings to be brought before the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) on State aid SA. 38373 (2014/C)(ex 2014/NN) (ex 2014/CP) implemented by Ireland to Apple;

2. Request the Attorney General to prepare the legal grounds in support of those proceedings and to take all other steps incidental to the conduct of those proceedings;

3. Propose the following motion before Dáil Eireann:

That Dáil Éireann:

(i) Supports the Government decision to appeal the European Commission’s decision that Ireland provided unlawful State aid to Apple.

(ii) Commits itself to the highest international standards in transparency in the taxation of the corporate sector;

(iii) Resolves that, no company or individual receives preferential tax treatment contrary to the Tax Acts and calls on the Revenue Commissioners to continue to observe this principle;” and

4. To reaffirm Ireland’s 12 and half per cent corporation tax rate

5. To arrange for a review of Ireland’s corporation tax system by an independent expert to be appointed by the Minister for Finance, excluding the 12 and half per cent corporation rate.

Fight!

Apple ruling is aimed at harming Irish tax regime, claims Noonan (Irish Times)

Apple and state aid: the end of the affair (Vincent Boland, Financial Times)

Earlier: Apple Green

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Earlier, with a Golden Discs voucher worth twenty five EUROS to giveaway we asked: what’s your favourite Prog track.

You answered in your tens.

But there could be only one winner.

Kolmo wins the voucher with this epic choice and Prog-like reasoning.

“The greatest prog song in my experience would have be Close to the edge by Yes owing to it’s 18 minutes of musical drama, impenetrable, but delightful complexity and the fact that it uses nearly every musical instrument known to man in the tune…

…It goes on for ages, to listen to the tune without distraction for it’s length is an achievement, by the time you reach the end it feels like you where tripping liathróidí when all you’ve probably consumed was a milky cup of tea and a digestive or possibly a chocolate digestive if the mood had taken you during the shopping trip for something sweet, as plain digestive biscuit sans chocolate is hard to understand, like, if your going to buy biscuits, I mean, life is a short event, choosing not to have chocolate on a rather plain situation is, I’ll try to be kind, miserable and frankly you might need to have an internal dialogue with your id as to the choices you make in life.”

Runners up:


Liam: “Zen Archer” by Todd Rundgren – has heavenly harmonies, military drums, time signature changes and a staggeringly good sax solo (not a phrase I type very often) as well as the obiligatory incomprehensible lyrics. What is a Zen Archer? maybe we’re better off not knowing…”


Dermot: “The greatest prog song in my experience would have be A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum owing to its haunting melody and just plain weird lyrics.”

Niallo: “The greatest prog song in my experience would have to be Watcher of the Skies by Genesis, because its just magnificent without being pretentious. And that’s Peter Gabriel Genesis kids, not Phil Collins and his big sweaty head Genesis.”

Optimus Grime: “My greatest prog rock song would be the manic “Son et Lumiere – Inertiatic ESP” double header from the Mar Volta from the seminal De-Loused in the Comatorium. Wailing non coherent lyrics with ludicrously complicated guitar riffs what’s not to love about it!”

Edalicious: “Rose by New Secret Weapon is a belter of a tune by an Irish Prog act.”

Liam Deliverance: “The greatest prog song in my experience would have be Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath owing to the fact that Jethro Tull was a band made up of members who could actually sing and play and were not completely bonkers like a lot of their contemporaries.”

Thanks All

Earlier: Oh My Prog

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Hannah O’Hare writes:

I teamed up with Unicef Ireland and Aerlingus this year to design and print 100 limited edition t-shirts to sell and give all proceeds to Unicef.

Every year Aerlngus staff can apply to become a Unicef Ambassador and this year my mum who is Cabin Manager was awarded this title.

The t0shirts are available now [see link below] and are retailing for €15.

Aerlingus have been partnered up with Unicef since December 97′ with their “Change for Good” appeal.

The tshirts I designed was just another way of helping with the fundraising and to help make my mum’s year as ambassador as successful as possible.

Originally I wanted to do a plant that was native to Rwanda in Africa as my mum would have been doing a trip with Unicef in April, but coming closer to the time of designing and printing they changed the destination to Zambia and will be happening in November, I had this leaf design drawn up already so I went with that…

The tshirts were printed at Damn Fine Print in Smithfield who gave me a day of printing free of charge.

Hannah’s Tee (Charity Print)

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