sfi and our sister agencies ida and ei warranted a mention in the budget yesterday i am also maintaining our very significant investment in promoting the knowledge economy and enterprise development with a total of almost 500 million in exchequer capital expenditure in 2009. of this total i have provided over 300 million for the continued implementation of the strategy for science technology and ...
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well some of us were up late last night and mad enough to try live blogging the first presidential election debate between john mccain and barack obama. youll see the live blogging between myself and alexia below. alexia bravely stayed up for the whole thing. but we both were very much awake when john mccain mentioned the irish corporate tax rate. he was at an irish american event earlier this w...
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mccains making an economic speech as i write this a speech that does nothing but perpetuate the perception that he will be bushs third term and hes citing the neocons newest fairhairedboy ireland.ireland has its corporate tax rate down to 12.5 and fiscally irresponsible conservatives think we should drop ours to match.the faulty logic here is that they act as if ireland has the same costs as the...
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