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Britain's Other Great Golfing Destination
Wales offers golf links just as challenging and beautiful as Scotland or Ireland, but they're less expensive and less crowded
Business Week – Jul 11, 2008 5:54 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in World: Europe
Wales offers golf links just as challenging and beautiful as Scotland or Ireland, but they're less expensive and less crowded
Business Week – Jul 11, 2008 5:54 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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O'Driscoll wants tours cut
Ireland's captain, Brian O'Driscoll, yesterday questioned the validity of European teams touring the southern hemisphere every year. O'Driscoll's team face Australia in Melbourne today, a week after losing 21-11 to New Zealand in Wellington and only 21 days after Munster, who provide most of the national team, won the Heineken Cup final against Toulouse.
The Independent – Jul 11, 2008 2:08 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Rugby
Ireland's captain, Brian O'Driscoll, yesterday questioned the validity of European teams touring the southern hemisphere every year. O'Driscoll's team face Australia in Melbourne today, a week after losing 21-11 to New Zealand in Wellington and only 21 days after Munster, who provide most of the national team, won the Heineken Cup final against Toulouse.
The Independent – Jul 11, 2008 2:08 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Rugby
Britain should talk to Al Qaeda, says N. Ireland's top cop
Sir Hugh Orde also warns that threat from dissident Irish terrorists is highest in five years.
The Christian Science Monitor – Jul 11, 2008 12:37 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Top Stories: Terrorism
Sir Hugh Orde also warns that threat from dissident Irish terrorists is highest in five years.
The Christian Science Monitor – Jul 11, 2008 12:37 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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FAI go Dutch with Koevermans appointment
The Football Association of Ireland have appointed Dutchman Wim Koevermans as their International Performance Director.
ESPN – Jul 11, 2008 11:07 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Soccer
The Football Association of Ireland have appointed Dutchman Wim Koevermans as their International Performance Director.
ESPN – Jul 11, 2008 11:07 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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C&C warns of flat profit growth
Sliding cider consumption in the Republic of Ireland and the UK forced C&C Group, the Dublin-based group behind the Bulmers and Magners brands, to warn its half-year profits growth could be flat
Financial Times – Jul 11, 2008 07:20 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Business: Consumer
Sliding cider consumption in the Republic of Ireland and the UK forced C&C Group, the Dublin-based group behind the Bulmers and Magners brands, to warn its half-year profits growth could be flat
Financial Times – Jul 11, 2008 07:20 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Business: Consumer
Cider maker C&C Group posts lower four-month sales
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Ireland's C&C Group , the maker of Magners cider, said Friday that revenue in the four months to June 30 dropped 8%. Cider sales fell 10%, offsetting 3% revenue growth for the firm's spirits and liqueurs division. Operating profit rose compared to last year, reflecting improved operating margins from the cost reduction programme initiated in February. C&C said that, for the half year to 31 August, revenue is unlikely to match last year's level but improved operating margins during the period should offset the impact on operating profit.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – Jul 11, 2008 06:40 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Ireland's C&C Group , the maker of Magners cider, said Friday that revenue in the four months to June 30 dropped 8%. Cider sales fell 10%, offsetting 3% revenue growth for the firm's spirits and liqueurs division. Operating profit rose compared to last year, reflecting improved operating margins from the cost reduction programme initiated in February. C&C said that, for the half year to 31 August, revenue is unlikely to match last year's level but improved operating margins during the period should offset the impact on operating profit.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
MarketWatch.com – Jul 11, 2008 06:40 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Report: U.S. E-Gaming Ban a Chance for Ireland
Ireland should reform outdated gambling laws that outlaw casinos and could benefit from an effective ban on Internet gambling in the United States if it had the right legislation, a government committee said.
PC Magazine – Jul 10, 2008 11:58 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Computer
Ireland should reform outdated gambling laws that outlaw casinos and could benefit from an effective ban on Internet gambling in the United States if it had the right legislation, a government committee said.
PC Magazine – Jul 10, 2008 11:58 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology: Computer
Sex, lies and emails: The assassin, the partner and a plot to poison a millionaire
It is a bizarre tale of a would-be assassin who turned out to be an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, a woman in an unhappy relationship with a tycoon and revelations of a fake marriage, sex clubs in Spain and a Jacobean-style poison plot. They were the ingredients of one of the most unusual murder trials ever heard by Ireland's central criminal court. The case reached its climax this week after a 45-year-old mother-of-two, Sharon Collins, was found guilty of conspiring to hire a hitman through a website to kill her partner and his two sons. PJ Howard was worth €12m (£9.6m) through property rentals. He owned homes in the west of Ireland and Spain as well as a boat called Heartbeat, named after his quadruple heart-bypass in 2000. Five years after his heart surgery Howard was dating blonde divorcee Collins who, like him, had two sons from a previous marriage. But the match was not made in heaven, the court was told. Collins admitted that in April 2005 she wrote to Gerry Ryan, a popular Irish radio DJ, accusing Howard of frequenting prostitutes, transvestites and swingers' clubs near Malaga on the Costa del Sol. Yet despite this, she was so obsessed with marrying Howard that she turned to the internet, paying $1, 000 to Proxymarriage.com for a Mexican marriage certificate in the name of Sharon Howard. In August 2006, Collins contacted the website www.Hitman.us.com. The jury was told that correspondence began between her and a man from the site who called himself Tony Luciano. Luciano was in fact an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, Essam Eid. Collins allegedly suggested arranging an accident for Howard and his sons, and supplied him with details of where the family lived and socialised. The would-be assassin offered an alternative - poison that would induce heart attacks. The plot unravelled in September 2006 after Eid flew to Ireland and burgled the Howard family's business, taking computers. He then arranged to meet Robert Howard, one of PJ's sons, claiming to be able to identify the whereabouts of the equipment. He also warned the son that there was a contract out on him, his brother and their father, demanding €100,000 to have the contract terminated. Howard contacted the Irish police and thus began a transatlantic investigation which included the FBI. Collins was arrested in February 2007 after examination of one of the stolen computers, which had been dumped in a Limerick hotel. It contained emails between her and the hitman, which included complaints from Collins that PJ Howard wanted to control her life, even down to asking her to have "stranger sex". In one email, Collins wrote: "His boys are going to suffer. I wish it didn't have to be like this, but I know that if my husband was dead and they were still here, they'd screw me." Collins and Eid, who was found guilty of demanding €100,000 from Howard and handling stolen property, will be sentenced on October 8. Collins has secured the help of a Los Angeles-based literary agent, after she told Ireland's director of public prosecutions: "I'll write a book yet."
The Guardian – Jul 10, 2008 11:14 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
It is a bizarre tale of a would-be assassin who turned out to be an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, a woman in an unhappy relationship with a tycoon and revelations of a fake marriage, sex clubs in Spain and a Jacobean-style poison plot. They were the ingredients of one of the most unusual murder trials ever heard by Ireland's central criminal court. The case reached its climax this week after a 45-year-old mother-of-two, Sharon Collins, was found guilty of conspiring to hire a hitman through a website to kill her partner and his two sons. PJ Howard was worth €12m (£9.6m) through property rentals. He owned homes in the west of Ireland and Spain as well as a boat called Heartbeat, named after his quadruple heart-bypass in 2000. Five years after his heart surgery Howard was dating blonde divorcee Collins who, like him, had two sons from a previous marriage. But the match was not made in heaven, the court was told. Collins admitted that in April 2005 she wrote to Gerry Ryan, a popular Irish radio DJ, accusing Howard of frequenting prostitutes, transvestites and swingers' clubs near Malaga on the Costa del Sol. Yet despite this, she was so obsessed with marrying Howard that she turned to the internet, paying $1, 000 to Proxymarriage.com for a Mexican marriage certificate in the name of Sharon Howard. In August 2006, Collins contacted the website www.Hitman.us.com. The jury was told that correspondence began between her and a man from the site who called himself Tony Luciano. Luciano was in fact an Egyptian poker dealer in Las Vegas, Essam Eid. Collins allegedly suggested arranging an accident for Howard and his sons, and supplied him with details of where the family lived and socialised. The would-be assassin offered an alternative - poison that would induce heart attacks. The plot unravelled in September 2006 after Eid flew to Ireland and burgled the Howard family's business, taking computers. He then arranged to meet Robert Howard, one of PJ's sons, claiming to be able to identify the whereabouts of the equipment. He also warned the son that there was a contract out on him, his brother and their father, demanding €100,000 to have the contract terminated. Howard contacted the Irish police and thus began a transatlantic investigation which included the FBI. Collins was arrested in February 2007 after examination of one of the stolen computers, which had been dumped in a Limerick hotel. It contained emails between her and the hitman, which included complaints from Collins that PJ Howard wanted to control her life, even down to asking her to have "stranger sex". In one email, Collins wrote: "His boys are going to suffer. I wish it didn't have to be like this, but I know that if my husband was dead and they were still here, they'd screw me." Collins and Eid, who was found guilty of demanding €100,000 from Howard and handling stolen property, will be sentenced on October 8. Collins has secured the help of a Los Angeles-based literary agent, after she told Ireland's director of public prosecutions: "I'll write a book yet."
The Guardian – Jul 10, 2008 11:14 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Nassau reprise on tap in Dance Smartly
Callwood Dancer, who went gate to wire to register the biggest win of her career in Woodbine's Nassau Stakes (Can-II) on the grass in her last start, takes on many of the same rivals in the $300,000 Dance Smartly (Can-II) on Saturday.Trained by Roger Attfield for owner Harlequin Ranches, Callwood Dancer held on desperately in the May 31 Nassau for a nose victory over Quiet Jungle, who also runs in the Dance Smartly. The 1 1/8-mile turf event drew seven fillies and mares, including five that ran in the Nassau.Callwood Dancer is a 4-year-old daughter of Danehill Dancer bred in Ireland. All five of her lifetime wins have come at Woodbine, four of them on the turf.
NTRA.com – Jul 10, 2008 10:10 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Horse Racing
Callwood Dancer, who went gate to wire to register the biggest win of her career in Woodbine's Nassau Stakes (Can-II) on the grass in her last start, takes on many of the same rivals in the $300,000 Dance Smartly (Can-II) on Saturday.Trained by Roger Attfield for owner Harlequin Ranches, Callwood Dancer held on desperately in the May 31 Nassau for a nose victory over Quiet Jungle, who also runs in the Dance Smartly. The 1 1/8-mile turf event drew seven fillies and mares, including five that ran in the Nassau.Callwood Dancer is a 4-year-old daughter of Danehill Dancer bred in Ireland. All five of her lifetime wins have come at Woodbine, four of them on the turf.
NTRA.com – Jul 10, 2008 10:10 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Sports: Horse Racing
Datebook
Events in Ireland, California and Spain are worth getting on a plane for.
New York Times – Jul 10, 2008 7:32 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Entertainment: Travel
Events in Ireland, California and Spain are worth getting on a plane for.
New York Times – Jul 10, 2008 7:32 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Entertainment: Travel