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With their silky skills.

Ahmed Soda (top), age 11, and his family moved to Belfast late last year, fleeing the war in Syria.

In January, Ahmed tried out for football at local club Patrick Sarsfields, and despite some early jitters, has settled into the game helping the club break a dry spell in local under-12 silverware.

Ahmed, from the besieged city of Aleppo, also picked up a hurley for the first time in June, and is a natural, according to coaches.

Send him back.

Earlier: Dan Boyle: Who Are We And Who Are They?

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Paul Colgan, Economics Editor with UTV Ireland in a report broadcast yesterday

Paul Colgan, on UTV’s Ireland Live yesterday, reported the following:

If you’re not resident in Ireland and you have a lot of money on your hands, there’s all kinds of entirely legal ways of channeling your investment through Dublin and not paying tax.

One way is to put your money in an ICAV, short for Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicle – it’s one of several special tax structures that were designed to bring investment jobs to Ireland by allowing investors to register their activities tax-free legally.

They were designed to help manage investments made elsewhere. However, over recent months, concerns have been raised that ICAVs are being used in investments made on Irish soil. Foreign investors are legally able use ICAVs on Irish proper and pay no tax.

The Minister for Finance said in April, that his department would examine their use of property deals and would seek to close any potential loopholes.

Ireland Live News has gone through the Central Bank’s register of ICAVs, to see what they’re being used for. We cross-checked the names that have been registered with the Central Bank with publicly available information, on those same investments.

And, it turns out, that over 10 per cent of over 200 registered ICAVs, set up to date, are being used to buy or develop property here in Ireland.

Big players, like the global real estate investment firm, Hines, is using an ICAV to invest in its significant Cherrywood development in south Dublin. And businessman Denis O’Brien transferred ownership of the LXV building on Dublin’s Stephen’s Green into an ICAV last year.

Even Nama, the State’s bad bank is using an ICAV, it’s using it to develop big chunks of Dublin’s docklands as it’s teamed up with a US investment firm called Oaktree and they’re redeveloping sites like this one into offices and apartments.

The ICAV is called Targeted Investment Opportunities and it’s registered with the Central Bank and when sites like this come on to the market, they’re expected to fetch hundreds of millions of euros.

A Nama spokesman said that this was entirely legitimate and any money that Nama might now save on tax will ultimately be returned to the taxpayer by way of surplus.

Efforts by Revenue and the Department of Finance, meanwhile, to close possible loopholes, in tax structures, are ongoing.

Watch the report in full here

Thanks Mark Malone

redrockSome of the cast of TV3’s Red Rock

 

Would the public take to a soap based around a busy Dublin Garda station in a fictional coastal town starring hot people?

In their droves apparently.

[Irish-made TV3 soap] Red Rock burst onto our screens on Wednesday evening with an average audience of 323,200 viewers.
The first instalment of the garda drama reached a peak figure of 371,100.
The soap pipped long running UK offering Emmerdale to the post – the show pulled in an average of 325,000 viewers.

Fair City play though, in fairness.

Red Rock: New soap reaches 410,800 viewers on debut (IrishMirror)

Previously: Get Your Red Rock On

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Meanwhile, via RTÉ:

Fair City was the most watched soap in Ireland last night with an average audience of 569,000 (36%) Irish soap fans tuning in to watch last night’s episode. Fair City had a reach** audience of 735,700 while an additional 31,400 TV viewers watched the episode on RTÉ One+1. 10,057 caught up on the Carrigstown action on RTÉ Player. Fair City was also the second most watched programme among 15 – 34s (24%) after Operation Transformation.

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http://youtu.be/Foj38ees-8k

Only 22 more sleeps.

On the first day of 2015, UTV Ireland goes loive and they’re nearly ready.

A sharply dressed communications guru from the station writes:

UTV Ireland will launch in just 22 days on Sky channel 116, UPC channel 110, SAORVIEW channel 6 and eVision channel 108.

The fit out of our headquarters and HD studios in Dublin’s Docklands was recently completed and the team here is ready for our January 1st launch. We set up a time-lapse to capture the building of our headquarters and thought you might like to see it…

Needs more breakfast roll in fairness.

Previously: Alternative Ulster Television

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