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PALO ALTO, Calif. and DUBLIN, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Weedle, an Ireland-based Internet company, today announced it has received funding totaling U.S.$4 million to expand its social media platform in the U.S. and other global regions. Weedle is combining the latest developments in Social Media and Semantic Web technologies with the company's own search and social graph algorithm to create an internet platform aimed at facilitating increased demand for skills and employment in the U.S....
By SARAH BARDON THE future of Dell in Ireland could be known by the end of today. Tanaiste Mary Coughlan is holding a summit with the computer giant and could make an announcement on the firm's Limerick plant by this afternoon. The talks follow a Dell board meeting in the US earlier in the week where the future of the Limerick factory was on the agenda. Defence Minister and Limerick TD Willie O'Dea stressed he does not know what Dell, which employs 4,500 in Ireland, plans. A Sunday...
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that the UK will press ahead with ratification of the Lisbon Treaty despite the "no" vote in the Irish referendum. Irish voters stunned Europe's leaders and brought the ratification process shuddering to a halt, voting by 53.4 per cent to 46.6 per cent to reject the treaty. As jubilant No campaigners celebrated in Dublin, UK Conservatives said that the treaty should now finally be declared dead and called on Gordon Brown to abandon Britain's...
THE future of the European Union was plunged into chaos last night after Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty. The final referendum result showed 53.4% voted No, while 46.6% voted Yes. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso insisted the treaty was "still alive". But the result, despite a vigorous Yes campaign by the Irish government, left EU member states with a major headache. Eighteen of the EU's 27 member states have already ratified he major reform package the treaty...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The United States transferred a convicted U.S. Marine through Ireland without telling the Irish government, Ireland's foreign affairs minister said on Tuesday, but denied the country had been used to move terrorist suspects. Ireland was named in a Council of Europe report earlier this month as one of more than 20 countries, mostly in Europe, that colluded in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA jails and flight transfers of terrorist suspects, an accusation...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland plans to rush new laws on rape through parliament next week after a Supreme Court ruling left open a loophole that allowed a man convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl to be freed. The Supreme Court ruled last week that a 1935 law on statutory rape, under which any man who has sex with a girl under the age of 15 is automatically guilty of a crime, was unconstitutional. A 41-year-old man known only as 'Mr A', who was jailed in 2004 after he admitted having...
By Saul Hudson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Ireland on Thursday the United States had not used its territory to secretly transfer terrorism suspects to foreign states as she tried to defuse concerns over the handling of U.S. detainees. With European allies and publics worried over reports the United States has been using the practice known as rendition in the region, the Bush administration has been under increasing pressure to explain its tactics...
By Saul Hudson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Ireland on Thursday the United States had not used its territory to secretly transfer terrorism suspects to foreign states as she tried to defuse concerns over the handling of U.S. detainees. With European allies and publics worried over reports the United States has been using the practice known as rendition in the region, the Bush administration has been under increasing pressure to explain its tactics...
