Hints and tips:
...“It would be a really uphill struggle to demonstrate that the incremental burden was worth the handful of basis points that we would have preserved by keeping it in its original construct,” said John Croke...
...Money market funds have not been popular for long, but managers are wondering if their pre-eminence is set to continue, said John Croke, head of active fixed income products at Vanguard....
...Vanguard has received strong flows into its Tips products and a commodities fund, said John Croke, the asset manager’s head of active fixed income product management....
...Two to three truckloads a day of old batteries and electronics arrive. So it can be anything from your old iPhone battery to a scooter to an electric bicycle to a power drill or a toothbrush....
...Close to Dublin city centre and home to Croke Park, Ireland’s biggest sporting arena where Gaelic football and hurling are played, it is also the proposed site of a major housing project by US property developer...
...The ground at Bennettsbridge is a far cry from Croke Park. A hay barn can be seen at one end of the pitch, houses on the other and trains rumble past on a nearby line....
...Investing in these local recycling facilities keeps paper, metal and plastics in the supply chain for future packaging products and out of ever-expanding landfills, Bridget Croke, managing director at Closed...
...Because our minds at least are free, mine wandered instead to the Croke Park Massacre, two years after the Armistice, when the army opened fire indiscriminately on an unarmed crowd in a football stadium...
...The Argentine pontiff starts a two-day tour on Saturday, taking in a global Catholic congress on Saturday night at Croke Park and an outdoor mass on Sunday that is expected to draw half a million pilgrims...
...He was driven through the Irish capital in his popemobile before an address to 80,000 people at a Catholic congress on families in Croke Park stadium....
...He will attend a number of meetings, visits and official engagements, including an appearance at Dublin’s Croke Park for the Feast of Families festival on Saturday....
...Mr Xi also appeared playing Gaelic football at Croke Park, Ireland’s national stadium, during an earlier European tour. “President Xi is a very avid football fan....
...Christopher Croke won the Nico Colchester fellowship in 2012 and was based in The Economist’s Paris office over the summer....
...They attract often huge crowds – Croke Park has a capacity of 82,300 and is full for the big matches. The players bring joy and despair, depending on the result. But they do not get paid....
...The Gaelic Athletic Association, which administers Ireland’s national games, owns Croke Park and stood to make a tidy profit, comes across as a bad neighbour....
...His appearance in the UK reciprocates a state visit by the Queen in May 2011, during which she walked round Croke Park in Dublin, where 14 people were killed by British forces during a Gaelic football match...
...There’s the General Post Office, scene of the Easter Rising; the streets named for the Rising’s dead leaders; Croke Park, scene of a British massacre in 1920, and so on....
...Under Croke Park II, public sector workers earning above €65,000 a year would face pay cuts of up to 10 per cent....
...In an unusual move, he displayed his skills during a visit to Ireland in 2012 by kicking a Gaelic football into the air at Croke Park stadium in Dublin....
...The row between the judiciary and the government erupted as public sector unions vote on whether to accept an extension to the Croke Park pay agreement, which will introduce reform and further public sector...
...under the Croke Park Agreement....
...Since then Dublin has relied on cutting public sector job numbers to achieve savings rather than cutting pay through the Croke Park agreement with the trade unions....
...Dublin has so far resisted unpicking the Croke Park agreement, which it says has helped to maintain industrial peace during a period of swingeing cutbacks....
...“Frankly, I would prefer if individual ministers didn’t get up every Monday morning and express a point of view – a personal point of view – on [the] Croke Park agreement or budget formation or whatever....
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