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File image of Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Bryan OBrien / THE IRISH TIMES The issue of privacy needs a "longer and wider" discussion and might be addressed by an Oireachtas committee, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has told the Dail. He ...

Marks and Spencer is in the spotlight for its tax practices. (Photograph Dara Mac Dónaill/THE IRISH TIMES) Retailer Marks & Spencer has become the latest in a line of UK based companies to have the spot-light shone on its tax-practices. According ...

Dublin. Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made it clear that additional strikes on Syria are a distinct possibility, despite warnings from Damascus that such actions could spark a war, the Irish Times reported. Mr Netanyahu told ...

He was also capped 128 times by Ireland and was a veteran of three British and Irish Lions tours but will be remembered by the Munstermen for guiding them to two Heineken Cup successes in 2006 and 2008. However, O'Gara has revealed the lure of ...

Irish Voice Arts Editor Cahir O'Doherty chats with Domhnall Gleeson Domhnall Gleesons ready for his close up. Now, at the age of 29, hes finally landing the kind of leading roles that promise to turn him into an internationally recognized Irish ...

on a thrice weekly basis. Daily publication began on June 8, 1859. The current editor of The Irish Times terms his daily publication "a newspaper of reference," in place of the label "newspaper of record," which has been made redundant in the ...

Q: Im planning to file an application with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjust my status to that of legal permanent resident, based on my marriage to a US citizen. I understand that this can take a long time, and I heard that ...

The image of the American income tax law is of horrible and immense complexity. But it turns out that in many ways it is not that complicated. The Apple tax tactic that came in for denunciation at Tuesday's Senate subcommittee hearing was not ...

Australia winger Digby Ioane is in doubt for the series-opening rugby Test against the British and Irish Lions in a month's time following knee surgery. Ioane, who's scored 11 tries in 34 Tests for the Wallabies, underwent an operation today on the ...