He’s on to us.
“What we are trying to do is to say that if you simply acquire a small company in Ireland or some other country to take advantage of the low tax rate [and] you start saying, ‘we are now magically an Irish company’, despite the fact that you might have only 100 employees there and you have got 10,000 employees in the United States, you are just gaming the system.”
President Obama on CNBC
RUN!
Obama names Ireland in attack on tax policies of US firms (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Rat Race
at
Bunch O Balloons – a garden hose attachment invented by Texas-based dad of eight Josh Malone.
It splits the hose’s water stream into 37 miniature pipes, each feeding pre-tied, self-sealing water balloons that detach with a light shake when full.
A work of evil genius currently massively overfunded on Kickstarter and almost certainly a thing you can buy soon.
Kinsale Dawn
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Kinsale, Co Cork this morning.
GalwayDub writes:
“No filter needed…”
Meanwhile…
Sunrise in Tullow, Co Carlow.
Thanks Carlow Weather
Pic 6 is Bodger’s gaff.
Conor Cooke writes:
“I missed most of the debate about this library [centre] due mainly to disinterest but Christ it is ugly and out of place…”
FIGHT!
Previously: A ‘Monstrosity’
Is He Yours?
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Dún Laoghaire earlier this evening.
Taken by Declan McAllorum
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Brian Oliver, Enda Bolger, Enda Cunningham, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Sky News