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U2 HAVE CONFIRMED dates for their US shows and most of the European stops on the Experience + Innocence tour which kicks off in Tusla, Oklahoma on 2 May.
The European leg of the tour will begin in Berlin on 31 August, with a string of European dates including Cologne, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Milan, Manchester and London.
This morning, Live Nation and MCD Productions also confirmed that “special home shows” are being planned for Dublin and Belfast.
They said details of these shows will be announced as soon as they are finalised.
The tour follows the release of the band’s 14th studio album Songs of Experience. Promoters said the tour is a development of the “unique and innovative staging” of the band’s 2015 tour, featuring multiple performance areas, a state-of-the-art sound system, plus an all new super high-res LED screen nine-times the resolution of the 2015 screen.
Tickets for the European leg of the tour go on sale on 26 January and venue and on-sale details for Dublin and Belfast will be announced soon.
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That can’t be right? Only 620 Irish millionaires? That tells me that the vast majority of millionaires are under the radar and therefore paying less than 30% income tax if any!
Yep, just 620 apparently. It was over 1,000 in around 2007/2008 but has dropped dramatically cos of the recession. My possibly dodgy attempt at early-morning maths tells me that that means 0.1% of the Irish population is a millionaire.
Christine,according to this there was 20,400 Irish millionaires in 2007?
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/number-of-irish-millionaires-soars-2230552.html
Yeah, I’d be a tad wary of that figure because it comes from a private company. The 620 figure came from Michael Noonan so it’s Department of Finance figures for the number of millionaires in Ireland which is more reliable.
Lol department of finance having reliable figures, good one
Christine you’ll have to give your self comment of the week for the Noonan & Dept of finance gag!! Classic
lol Stephen Doyle; they’ve probably lost 3.6 of them ;-)
Noonan reliable and figures are not three words that go together in any sentance.
The man tells jokes and like most jokes he makes them up to suit himself.
Des bishop had more chance of getting finance figures right than that clown noonan. Any figures noonan give are all from the Cardiff school of accounting and should be treated as the nonsense they are
I am a billionaire and don’t pay any taxes at all ,pathetic little millionaires , bloody peasants were stealing from my bins again last night ,i let the hounds loose it was great sport to see them running after the peasants up my mile long drive, great exercise for them.
#EXPLOSIVES see the gardai are investing in new explosives, makes a change from investigating i suppose
Very glad that over two hundred Divers have/are travelling to Cork to help recovery of the two remaining fishermen. I hope it works, to give those families some closure on this dreadful tragedy.
#MILLIONAIRES A small thing but… if 42 percent of millionaires pay more than 30 percent tax, then 58 percent pay less than 30 percent tax. So it’s not “Almost half of Ireland’s millionaires pay less than 30 per cent income tax” it’s more than half of Ireland’s millionaires…
There’s a big difference between millionaires in terms of income earned, and millionaires in terms of property owned/inherited. Could this explain the difference?
Ah I think you have a point there Martin. I imagine that the national lottery alone, create at a guess, 50ish millionaires a year and that’s tax free..
I just read that and thought it should be the cover of The Journal…so brillian!!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=219635911459662&set=a.142394652517122.31257.142390589184195&type=1&theater
How many of those 600 plus millionaires actually reside full time in Ireland?
Re the contraband found in prisons can someone tell me why they dont just bring in screening between visitors and prisoners?
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