Blackpool have fined Michael Chopra more than £10,000 after the striker took to Twitter to criticise the club’s management.

It is unfair to impose bank losses on the ordinary citizens, and budget cuts in a time of crisis should be gradual — these are the two main lessons arising from Ireland’s bailout programme, according to the IMF’s Ajai Chopra.

Owen Wilson is to become a dad for a second time.

European Stability Mechanism (ESM) funds should be used to recapitalise banks, including Irish banks, as part of an EU-wide Banking Union, IMF mission chief to Ireland, Ajai Chopra, told a conference in Dublin.

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Andrew Heffernan and eight unlicensed individuals will have to wait until next Friday to know their fate following a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing over breaches of the rules of racing.

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Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given has been handed a rare starting spot for the home FA cup third-round clash with Ipswich.

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Nine people including Ipswich striker Michael Chopra and jockey Andrew Heffernan have been charged in connection with race-fixing by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).

Nine people including Ipswich striker Michael Chopra and jockey Andrew Heffernan have been charged in connection with race-fixing by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).

IF IN the mood it is sometimes possible to draw some wry amusement from re-reading comments made about the Irish economy during the height of our illusory boom.

THE Boss blew into town and left a trail of devastation in his wake,

Social welfare benefits are too high in Ireland and need to be revised to encourage people back to work, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

IT MAY not be the kind of icy economic indicator that would beguile Standard and Poor’s or Moody’s, but the fact that a Saturday night table at Farmgate is not so easily secured must mean something positive.

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A nutrient in cooked tomatoes has been shown in laboratory studies to slow the growth of — and even kill — prostate cancer cells, scientists have said.

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It was never envisaged the IMF would be needed to bail out a developed economy like Ireland’s. Michael Clifford reports on how its role has changed

IRELAND will not succeed in lowering its budget deficit to the targeted 3% of GDP level by 2015, according to Goodbody Stockbrokers.

Daniel Chopra is in pole position to claim the Iskandar Johor Open but Padraig Harrington and James Morrison remain firmly in contention after heavy rain in Malaysia saw the tournament reduced to 54 holes.

A FINE second round of 65 saw Daniel Chopra take the clubhouse lead on 13 under par as the second day of the Iskandar Johor was again disrupted by the Malaysian weather.

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THE Government is still hopeful of keeping next year’s budgetary adjustment target at €3.6 billion, but said that any increase that might be made will be “marginal”.

The Republic of Ireland’s bail-out bosses have warned everyone must take their share of pain if the country is to make a recovery.

I WROTE to your newspaper in 2007 pointing out that the boom was over and the bizarre sense of entitlement in the public service would ruin us.

OUR inescapable economic crisis made its usual, disheartening contribution to the headlines yesterday.

THE EU needs to rapidly implement a solution to the eurozone debt crisis to stop the contagious effects on countries like Ireland, the IMF has warned.

THE troika said “there was no target that was not met” by Ireland in complying with its bailout terms — but warned of challenges to come.

There was no quick response, as an economic problem became political

The head of the IMF mission to Ireland Ajai Chopra said today that the country should be judged on its own merits.

THE flurry of transfer activity has continued apace as Newcastle have snapped up France international Yohan Cabaye on a five-year deal.

IRELAND’S bid to cut the interest rate on its rescue loan and keep its low corporation tax won strong support from the IMF, which warned that the EU was in danger of aggravating the crisis.

SHANE LONG’S 24th and 25th goals of the season proved his most priceless as Reading convincingly saw off Cardiff to set up a Wembley date with Swansea in the npower Championship play-off final.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”

I NOTE that Ajai Chopra has stated that, for us in Ireland, “it is an Irish solution to an Irish problem”.

European officials have denied Ireland is being threatened to repay all the global money men owed billions by the country‘s bailed-out banks.

The head of the IMF mission to Ireland is to meet the Finance Minister Michael Noonan and the Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin today.

WE recently were blessed with the arrival of a beautiful new granddaughter.

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Cardiff 0 Stoke 2 (after extra-time)

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