Pfizer is upping its stake in Ireland with a
The Ireland-U.S. Council’s annual student work experience scholarships were presented today at an awards luncheon held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City.
Ireland’s latest ally in the Obama overseas tax plan controversy is an unlikely candidate: Rush Limbaugh.
US President Barack Obama has spelled out plans to close corporate tax loopholes on U.S. multinational corporations and crack down on overseas tax havens. The new move will have serious implications for the Irish economy which is heavily dependent on the multinationals.
It raised a few eyebrows – and heaven knows what else – when pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sent “Viagra boxers” to family doctors in Ireland. The underwear, branded with the Pfizer logo, was sent out to doctors to mark the 10th anniversary of the sale of Viagra in Ireland.
News from ireland
By Frank Shouldice
Gov't Takes Pay Hike
With widespread evidence of the economy slowing down, the Irish government aroused an angry public reaction by awarding itself a double-figure pay hike. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will take a 14 percent pay rise which, at 38,000 euros, is itself worth 5,000 euros more than the average industrial wage.
The substantial pay increase will apply to cabinet ministers as well as senior officers in the civil service, garda (Irish police force) and academia.
SUNSHINE pervaded Northern Ireland just in time for last week's US-NI Investment Conference in Belfast. Intended to encourage American investment, the two-day event, timed to mark the first anniversary of the new power-sharing government, was hosted by First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.The conference was endorsed by the governments of Northern Ireland, U.
The Irish government is preparing an intense lobbying campaign to persuade President-elect Barack Obama to keep almost 100,000 jobs in U.S. multinationals in Ireland.