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FINANCE Minister John Bruton last night strongly defended the imposition of the Deposit Interest Retentions Tax (DIRT) as in effective means of combatting tax wasion in this country. And in an address to the annual dinner of the Institute of rankers, held in Dublin, the Minister

BETTER!, Get your full colour pin-up of the heroes of Arsenal 1 MAYOR CLINT }low the fastest gun in the West has brought law, order and ice cream to the town of Carmel. An on-the-spot report by EDDIE ROWLEY in America GAMBLING SLAVES The sad facts behind Cork's gambling addicts

writing. requires almost total seclusion. Australian-born, she has previously lived in the US, the Virgin Is:ands and Ireland but her friends say that she is in the Isle of Man to stay. Another ink-stained recruit to the island is millionairess Charlotte Lambe who, under the pen

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Not Edwina. Hardly was she elevated to the Government when she ticked off people from the North of England for their unhealthy diet. Swilling beer, eating crisps and puffing fags was what brought them 'ad health, she declared, and it was their own fault. The compassion lobby had

Next year will see the hiennal staging of the Champagne Mumm Admirals Cup. and the IYA's Offshore Committee have just announced their selection programme. At the moment nine skippers and their crews are hovering in the wings. a.nd offshore chairman Seas Flood reckons that at lea