ireland
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Eerily Accurate Facial Reconstructions Are Allowing The Dead To Speak
Researchers at Liverpool John Moore’s University have reconstructed the face of a man who lived in Dublin some 500 years ago. Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this are providing archaeologists with new way of studying the past — while also allowing them to visualise some of the most forgotten figures in history.
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Houseboat Gifted To ‘Homeless Youth’ Washes Up Empty On Other Side Of Atlantic
This weekend, a mysterious, tar-covered houseboat apparently built by a Canadian adventurer was discovered unoccupied on Irish beach — some 4800km from where it was last seen.
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Despite Tim Cook’s Trashtalking, Apple Will Pay Italy $348 Million In Back Taxes
Apple, like many other companies, is infamous for funelling money through its European headquarters in Ireland and benefitting from a lower tax rate. Well, Italy’s had enough of it, and Apple just agreed to pay the boot-shaped country $US348 million in back taxes. Tim Cook must be pissed.
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Ireland Is Tearing Down Thousands Of Empty, Brand New ‘Ghost Homes’
Phoenix, Madrid: These are the cities we tend to hold up as examples of the havoc that construction booms — and busts — can wreak on a housing market. Ireland is in the news less, but its situation is just as dire; an estimated 300,000 brand-new Irish homes have sat empty for years. And now…