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Monday: Priory Hall
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/MondayPrioryHall.jpgCouncil workers take samples from the Priory Hall apartment complex as residents pack up, following a court order to evacuate the property amid fire safety concerns. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
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Monday: iPhone 4S sells 4m
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/MondayiPhone4s.jpgPeople line up to buy the iPhone 4S at an Apple store in New York on the day it launches. Apple said it sold 4 million units in its first weekend of launch. The 4S will come to Ireland before the end of the month. Photograph: Scott Eells/Bloomberg News
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Tuesday: Occupy Wall St
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/TuesdayOccupyWallStreetprot.jpgA demonstrator from the Occupy Wall Street movement erects an American flag at Zuccotti Park in New York. The protest that has spread from Lower Manhattan to as far as Rome and Hong Kong. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Tuesday: Occupy Dame St
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/TueadayOccupyDameSTreet.jpgSome of the 99% group taking part in Occupy Dame Street, camp outside the Central Bank in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/THE IRISH TIMES
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Tuesday: Greece strikes
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/Tuesdaygreekstrikes.jpgPedestrians pass uncollected refuse on a street in Athens, Greece. The country braced itself for a 48-hour general strike in protest at a new wave of austerity measures.Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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Wednesday: Aviva job cuts
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/Avivajoblosses.jpgStaff leaving Aviva Headquarters after the company said 950 jobs - 770 in Aviva Ireland and a further 180 in Aviva Europe – could be lost among its 2,000-strong Irish workforce. The news put an end to weeks of speculation over the future of the company in Ireland. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / The Irish Times
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Wednesday: Jobs Memorial
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/WednesdayJobsMemorial2.jpgAn Apple employee stands next to a sign displayed at a store that is closed during a webcast memorial for co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs. Jobs, who built the world's most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionised the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died on October 5th at the age of 56. Photographer: Paul Taggart/Bloomberg
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Wednesday: Samsung Nexus
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/WednesdaySamsunguynveilsnew.jpgSamsung announced its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, running the latest version of Google's Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich, in Hong Kong. It will go on sale next month, and is expected to challenge the iPhone. Photograph: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg
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Wednesday: Trichet's final bow
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/WednesdayTrichetleavesECB.jpgJean-Claude Trichet, outgoing president of the European Central Bank, left, and Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, chat during the farewell event for Trichet at the Alte Oper concert hall in Frankfurt. Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg
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Thursday: Euro crisis
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/euro.jpgA banner depicting German chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy is fixed at the front of an apartment house in Berlin's Mitte district. Germany lowered expectations of a breakthrough in the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis at the weekend, saying Sunday's EU summit will not produce a final solution. German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy have scheduled a special meeting in Brussels on Saturday night, their third in less than a fortnight. Photograph:Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
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Thursday: Troika review
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/ThursdayTroikareview.jpgThe European Commission's Istvan Szekely, and IMF deputy director Ajai Chopra at a Troika press conference following the latest review of the EU/IMF Programme. Ireland faces "major challenges" ahead and the country's domestic economy remains weak, but the implementation of the country's bailout program continues to be strong, troika officials said. Photograph: Alan Betson / THE IRISH TIMES
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Thursday: Troika review
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/ThursdayNoonanreview.jpgThe Government said the latest review by the EU and IMF of Ireland’s adherence to the bailout programme has been a success, with all targets for the third quarter being met. Minister for Finance Michael Noonan also indicated that the Government would not be departing from its promise not to raise income taxes or to cut social welfare rates in the Budget. The commitments were made separately by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore earlier this year. Photograph: Eric Luke/THE IRISH TIMES
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Thursday: Occupy LSE
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/ThursdayOccupylondon.jpgImitation dollar notes hung by the "Occupy the London Stock Exchange" protestors are seen outside St Paul's Cathedral in London. St Paul's Cathedral may be forced to close as a growing number of protesters against economic inequality fill its churchyard and deter visitors, the church said. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Thursday: Microsoft Stores
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/ThursdayMicrosoftopensstore.jpgEmployees high-five customers as they enter at the grand opening of a new Microsoft Store in Seattle, Washington. Chief operating officer Kevin Turner said earlier this year that the company aims to open 75 stores in the next two or three years. Photographer: Stuart Isett/ Bloomberg
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Thursday: Entrepreneur of the Year
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/ThursdayErnstyoung.jpgOverall winners of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, Openet's Joe Hogan and Niall Norton, with President McAleese and Mike McKerr, Managing Partner at Ernst & Young, in the CityWest Hotel, Dublin. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill / THE IRISH TIMES
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Friday: Occupy Melbourne
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/FridayMelbourneOccupy2.jpgAustralian police clashed with "Occupy Melbourne" protestors after police, acting on a Melbourne City Council eviction order, attempted to break up the crowd of hundreds that had been positioned in City Square for a week. Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images
