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The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world.
Ireland's inequality of income distribution score on the Gini coefficient scale was 30.4 in 2000, slightly below the OECD average of 31. [227] Sustained increases in the value of residential property during the 1990s and up to late 2006 was a key factor in the increase in personal wealth in Ireland, with Ireland ranking second only to Japan in ...
Joanne O'Riordan was born in 1996 in Millstreet, County Cork with tetra-amelia syndrome. She became a campaigner for disability rights in 2011. [ 3 ] She used to swim as a child but stopped as a teenager as she had a titanium rod placed in her back to help with scoliosis .
Ireland's taxation system is distinctive for its low headline rate of corporation tax at 12.5% (for trading income), which is half the OECD average of 24.9%. [32] While Ireland's corporate tax is only 16% of Total Net Revenues (see above), Ireland's corporate tax system is a central part of Ireland's economic model.
The second largest city in Ireland, Cork, has an economy focused on the city centre, which as of 2011, supported employment for 24,092 people. [1] According to 2006 figures, the top five employers in the area were public sector organisations, and included Cork University Hospital, University College Cork, Collins Barracks, Cork City Council and ...
Although media sometimes still use the term "capital murder", [128] the legal term is now "murder to which section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 1990 applies". [ 129 ] [ n 2 ] In 1993, the then Tánaiste , Dick Spring , said in Vienna that the 1990 abolition should be made irreversible, which Taoiseach Albert Reynolds later confirmed was ...
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index scored Ireland at 77 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Ireland ranked 11th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1]
Independent Ireland is a right-wing [10] political party in Ireland. It was formed on 8 November 2023 by former independent TDs Michael Collins and Richard O'Donoghue. [11] [12] Their elected representation was subsequently boosted by the joining of TD Michael Fitzmaurice, formerly an independent, and by the success of Ciaran Mullooly in winning a seat for the party in the European Parliament ...