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Racist riots in the UK finding alarming support among 18% of people polled. Is Ireland likely to remain immune to such racism?
Tsunami warnings have been issued for parts of Russia and Japan after a massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday off Russia’s remote and sparsely populated far eastern coast. The earthquake ...
Recently The Economist commissioned a polling firm that polled over 2,000 British adults on multiculturalism and the risk of further unrest in light of last year's racist riots triggered by the ...
An interview on Newstalk earlier today exposed the lack of transparency on when water facilities would be made available from the monopoly Irish Water for a housing project. News reports suggest such ...
Economics 101 teaches free products are vastly over consumed and the lack of prices starves investment. Define overconsumption of water. And provide some numbers about who and how much water is wasted ...
Pay for water so Irish Water can pay the boys sitting behind desks to do nothing even more money. Have IW told us how much they need and if we got X amount, how quick they could get things done etc ...
Private water companies are regulated utility monopolies in the USA, not a competitive market. Typically, regulators allow a net profit return on total assets in a premium related to prevailing ...
Who said it would be a private entity? I never claimed that. I said it's not a consumer product like beer and skittles. Although the gougers in FF would privatise it down the road, like Eircom. We ...
Germany is probably doing alright if you measure by value instead of by units. Germany has the luxury car market almost nailed down. I heard of an analysis done of this which makes for interesting ...
It is a pity few people do not spot "kayfabe" when they see it. Trump will do his strut about his brilliant deal, but he did the same thing about his "Japan Deal". And the Japanese deny it is what he ...
The EU offer was zero tariffs both ways, but Trump sees tariffs as a way of making money for the US Treasury (and therefore, himself, as he is creative in ways of making money from the taxpayer).