Have many people have been murdered by governments in history by not having a six month lockdown every year? History will not judge us kindly.
And yet smoking is still legal
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And cool
the damage is done, Aer Lingus will be gone soon, only for Mick O’Leary the whole thing was gone 3 months ago
Brian Keenan the on course bookmaker, not the Lebanese hostage whose view might carry more weight.
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Would have thought that Brian Keenan would be happy enough at home
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Ryanair flights for a fiver in October 
The entire government should resign.
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Up to 30% false negative but likely a lot lower. Swab/PCR are considered a lot more accurate than Antigen tests (like the Roche one in the press release)
Tax take up to end August by Ireland Inc hasn’t suffered much . Only down marginally from this time last year .
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Income tax only down 1.4% yoy. The publicans and the entertainment industry clearly a net drain on the coffers
Corporation tax is up.
Presumably that is based on 2019 profits and being paid now. This is bound to be negatively affected in the future.
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Ireland Ireland Ireland.
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Probably a lot of the staff in that game below the tax net ??
Also Corporation tax helped offset the VAT loss . Very interesting .
Office licence profits making up for shortfalls in all the other industry.
We are big in pharma I guess and that’s booming
Yes I would think so .
Corporation tax should hold up due to our tech and pharma MNCs
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I think our exports were largely unaffected which would suggest that . Also food needed to be churned out .