Monday, December 12, 2011

Farmers fighting to keep Christmas shoppers local

By ALISON O'RIORDAN

Sunday November 23 2008




The fight against the 'flight to Newry' has been launched by a countryside alliance as busloads of shoppers head for the border towns of Northern Ireland for the first recessionary Christmas spree in 20 years.

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has formed an umbrella group of local organisations to persuade shoppers to 'Go Local' and put saving their own towns ahead of landing cross-border savings.

But just as the campaign was

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Artists should not escape tax free

It's time to scrap the tax exemption for well-heeled artists and to dismantle Aosdana while we are at it, writes Liam Collins


Sunday September 27 2009




It's time to end the tax exemption for 'artists' and while he's at it, Brian Lenihan should dismantle that awful secret organisation set up by Charles Haughey called Aosdana.

Happily, I got the so-called exemption for two books that didn't deserve it -- but not for a third, that probably did but didn't meet the criteria.

The

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