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Royalty Pharma has eased one of its conditions for completing its recently increased offer to buy Irish drugmaker Elan Corp. PLC for $12.50 per share, or about $7.5 billion. Full story
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Apple enjoyed Irish tax holiday from the start
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Dutch arrest meat works owner in horse meat probe
Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef. Full story
Ireland Nugent & parents reunite with first responders in Largo
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Ireland says will not be U.S. 'whipping boy' on tax
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's finance minister said the country would not be the "whipping boy" for what he called a flawed U.S. Senate report that said Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple shrink its tax bill. Full story
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