(H/T: Ringos Dove via buzzfeed)
An anti-Banner banner spotted in Cork last weekend.
(Thanks Spaghetti Hoop)
NO.
Should the Commission find cause for concern, it will open a formal investigation and start a process that could force the states to recoup all the lost revenues from any unlawful sweetheart deals.
Sweetheart deals?
A U.S. Senate committee recently singled out Ireland for acting as a conduit for Apple’s earnings so it could sidestep large tax payments around the world. The report claimed Dublin allowed Apple to apply a corporation tax of 2 percent or less, well short of the usual 12.5 percent rate.
RUN!
Brussels Probe Multinationals Tax Returns (CNBC)
Previously:Home And Away
More to follow.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Nick Sutton, Barry Duggan, Iain Henderson, Joe Leogue, Mike Hogan 4FM, Enda Cunningham and Joe Donnelly.
Oh.
Wayne O’F writes:
Note placed on a bike locked to a DCC parking sign on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay [Dublin]…Bit much no?
Previously: Bike Hate on broadsheet
Piss off grandad.
You may appreciate this.
Captain Bringdown writes:
With “Len” playing Dublin tonight and tomorrow, I thought your readers might like this song and video I made about the ‘cult of Hallelujah’, set to some rare (found it on YouTube) footage of Cohen from the 1960s Here‘s the audio-only version, if you’re into that sort of thing. Sweet dreams, sunbeams…
Perish the thought.
The Labour leader denied the Seanad proposal represented a power grab but was rather part of a programme of political reforms. Cabinet had discussed broader reform proposals which would be published tomorrow and which could be discussed during the campaign.
Eamon Gilmore with Joan Burton, launching the Labour Party’s campaign to abolish the senate and create a court of appeal in the Merrion Hotel, Merrion Street, Dublin today..
Gilmore insists no need for ‘two parliaments’ (RTE)
Earlier: “We Have To Look At The Situation Where Gerry Adams Could Be The Next Tánaiste”
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
