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...He insists that Ruth — a protestant Unionist — must be Irish and demands that he play the part with a terrible accent and an eyepatch....
...“In the UK you’d get this polarisation — half the people say if it’s not from Scotland it’s not whisky, and the other half say if it’s not Irish, it’s not whiskey.” There were also risks, he added....
...This week, Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy said he was stepping down from the policy board....
...The £190mn loan comes due at the end of April and if the lenders — which also include Allied Irish Banks and Dutch lender ING — do not agree to extend the facility, it would tip several layers of debt that...
...Jay warned that regulatory divergence between the EU and UK “is going to cause difficulties”....
...It has been two and a half years since the Irish actor’s breakout role in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People....
...In Ireland, buying into such company during a spike was dubbed the “eejit trade” after Allied Irish Banks soared on more than one occasion in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis....
...Jay Monahan is just a sellout.” Other human rights activists also lambasted the deal....
...Jamie Smyth This tax reform is really being grudgingly implemented by the Irish government....
...(Jay Freeman, the American businessman and engineer, calls this “felony contempt of business-model”.)...
...Not too bad for a region that only expects to avoid recession because of an unexpectedly warm winter and an Irish rescue (notwithstanding the rising rates and nearby war)....
...As Tony Veale, an Irish computer scientist, writes in his book Your Wit Is My Command, a joke “is like a magic trick”, since when you coldly explain it, it stops working....
...They designed visuals for Massive Attack’s 2003 tour 100th Window, before working on concerts for U2 and American rapper Jay Z....
...Chair Jay Powell and vice-chair Lael Brainard vowed last week to keep raising rates, fuelling expectations that a third consecutive 0.75 percentage point increase will be implemented later this month....
...Irish youth are increasingly considering emigration as their country’s cost of living crisis — especially around housing — intensifies....
...Irish youth look overseas The country’s history of emigration has seen an estimated 10mn people leave since 1800....
...But to be clear, Philip Stephens writes, Irish unity is not suddenly around the corner....
...Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber/Viking)A retired policeman, settling into a quiet chapter of life on the Irish coast, is forced to reconsider his past in Barry’s new novel....
...Thursday is St Patrick’s day, a chance to celebrate for the Irish diaspora, who have perhaps done more than any other people to blend with nations across the world....
...The French and Irish governments have agreed to subsidise higher fuel costs, with Germany signalling it would soon follow suit....
...The positive data bolster Fed chair Jay Powell’s signal in August that the world’s most influential central bank could begin slowing its $120bn-a-month asset purchase programme this year....
...But officials remain far apart on the substance of how to manage the new trade border in the Irish Sea. The Financial Times looks at the prospects for a deal....
...Irish minister warns EU could ditch entire Brexit deal The EU could abandon the entire Brexit agreement with the UK if London goes through with its threat to suspend parts of the withdrawal deal, Ireland...
...Rory McIlroy, the Northern Irish pro who has previously spoken out against breakaway leagues backed by Saudi cash, has decided not to play in Jeddah....
...On an overcast morning in early 2016, the then Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny opened Credit Suisse’s new trading floor in Dublin and declared that the city had joined “a small club of trading locations worldwide...
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