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• New perspective helps McDonagh rise to Royal task
  IT was one of those days on Bull Island where you’d get three seasons in the space of 10 minutes.

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• Rory McIlroy: From ‘boy wonder’ to ‘boy blunder’
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• Sale of Brooks plumbing stores saves 60 jobs
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• Irish mortgage rates lower than euro area average
  RTÉ’s Economics Correspondent Sean Whelan analyses Central Bank figures on euro zone mortgage rates

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• Greek euro exit could lead to Ireland downgrade
  Credit rating agency Fitch has Ireland on a list of countries that would face a downgrade in the event of Greece leaving the euro zone.

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• Markets fall on euro uncertainty, JP Morgan loss
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• Court hears McKillen sought help from Tony Blair
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• Senior creditors take control of Eircom group
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• Panasonic post record $9.67 billion loss
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• EU lowers Ireland’s 2012 growth forecast to 0.5%
  The European Commission has lowered Ireland’s growth forecast to 0.5% for 2012.

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• Morning Business News – May 11
  Colm O’Neill, Chief Executive, BT Ireland spoke on Morning Ireland about a 9% increase in profits and increased revenue for the year.

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• European Parliament approves mobile roaming cap
  The European Parliament has approved the decision to cap all mobile phone charges from July 2012.

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• UK GDP grew in 3 months to April – NIESR
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• ‘No appetite for Greece to leave euro zone’
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• Major Makeover of the Irish Business Forums
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• RaboDirect appoints new Ireland general manager
  Online savings bank RaboDirect has appointed Tim Bicknell as general manager for Ireland.

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• China increases surplus on weaker trade figures
  China’s trade surplus widened in April, but reported weaker than expected import and export figures.

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• Grafton’s Irish retail business revenues down 16%
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• Haughey mansion Abbeville for sale for ?7.5m
  Abbeville, the home of former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey has been put on the market with a guide price of ?7.5m.

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• Why Sawgrass is more than about being number golf?s one for McIlroy, Donald, Westwood
  THE world number one spot could change for the sixth time in 11 weeks on Sunday – but the Players Championship at Sawgrass is about far more than…
• Political uncertainty forces euro, markets lower
  European stock markets extended their losses and the euro slid further as investors sought shelter from strains in the eurozone driven by political…
• Tourism VAT rate of 9% to continue into 2013.
  The lower VAT rate of 9% for the tourism industry will continue into 2013, the Minister for Tourism has confirmed.

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• InterContinental profits double on hotel demand
  InterContinental Hotels Group said that net profits more than doubled to $154m during the group’s first quarter.

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• Proposal for up to 80% tax on offshore oil and gas
  An Oireachtas Committee has called for a sliding 40%-80% tax regime for new finds of oil and gas.

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• Greece to receive ?5.2 billion in loans tomorrow
  Greece will receive a ?5.2 billion tranche of bail-out loans as anticipated tomorrow.

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• Shannon Airport to be separated from DAA
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• Roche ends trials of heart drug Dalcetrapib
  Pharmaceutical firm Roche is ending the trials of a heart drug Dalcetrapib. The company said that the results of a trial show the drug doesn’t work….

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• USPGA champion Keegan Bradley enters next month?s Irish open at Royal Portrush
  REIGNING USPGA champion Keegan Bradley, who has never played a professional tournament in Europe, has entered next month’s Irish Open at Royal…
• Barroso calls for increased investment in growth
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• NAMA scheme to protect homebuyers from price drop
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• Savage cuts return Australia to surplus
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• Sales of new cars fall 16% in April
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• Oil mixed in Asian trade on euro zone worries
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• Statoil reports strong production figures
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• Greece pays increased rate to raise ?1.3 billion
  Greece paid higher rates to raise ?1.3 billion in a sale of six-month treasury bills today, two days after a shock anti-austerity vote.

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• Fowler pips McIlroy to break Tour duck
  RICKIE FOWLER played two of the greatest shots of his young life to beat his good pal Rory McIlroy and fellow American DA Points in sudden death at…
• Late slip-ups prove costly for Lawrie
  PETER LAWRIE saw the dark side of the tough finishing stretch at Real Golf Club de Seville as he dropped five shots and bundles of cash at the last…

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• Rory’s fans miss out in hoax call to Bally-B
  AS Rory McIlroy’s star continues its ascent towards a Tiger-esque galaxy far, far away, even his practice rounds have become media events.

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• ‘Fifth Major’ forced to play waiting game
  A grand ambition conceived in 1982, with the launch of TPC Sawgrass, remains unfulfilled 30 years on. Despite endless blathering from TV pundits and…

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• All Irish bonds sold by Europe’s largest fund
  Norway’s Sovereign Wealth fund sold its entire holding of Irish government bonds in the final weeks of 2011.

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• Frenchman Greory Bourdy leads Spansh Open in Seville at halfway stage
  FRENCHMAN Gregory Bourdy, with only one top-10 finish in the past year, leads the Reale Seguros Spanish Open at the halfway stage in Seville.

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