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Simon Carswell

Simon Carswell

Washington Correspondent

Simon Carswell is Washington Correspondent with The Irish Times. He was previously Finance Correspondent covering the banking crisis from 2007 to 2012. He was appointed Washington Correspondent in December 2012. He is the author of two books Something Rotten: Irish Banking Scandals and Anglo Republic: Inside The Bank That Broke Ireland, a bestseller in 2011. He was previously a News Reporter and News Editor of The Sunday Business Post. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology, he is a regular contributor to radio and television. He was named National Journalist of the Year 2011 by the National Newspapers of Ireland for his coverage of the banking crisis for The Irish Times.
 

 

Apple CEO Tim Cook (centre) appears before a US Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the US tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washingto today. Reuters/Jason Reed.
Apple shifted profits to ‘ghost companies’ in Ireland

Computer giant avoided paying tens of billions of dollars, US Congressional panel says

Apple chief executive Tim Cook and other company executives, along with US treasury officials, will appear before the Senate subcommittee at a hearing on Capitol Hill today.
Government denies facilitating Apple tax avoidance

US Senate report accuses technology giant of using Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax

Taoiseach Enda Kenny visited a memorial in Copley Square near the finish line of the Boston Marathon to lay flowers today. Photograph: Reuters
Anti-abortion activists protest at Taoiseach’s attendance at Boston College

Enda Kenny was the guest speaker at the college’s commencement ceremony today

Taoiseach Enda Kenny vists a memorial in Copley Square near the finish line of the Boston Marathon to lay flowers with Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/Reuters
Kenny says boycotting Cardinal entitled to his opinion

Taoiseach to deliver commencement address in Boston College

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and the Justice Minister Alan Shatter attend a memorial service for Gardai killed in the line of duty at Dublin Gardens, Dublin Castle on Saturday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Kenny backs Shatter over use of information on Wallace

Taoiseach says Minister for Justice ‘is not in a position of collecting files on any individual or any member of the House’

Taoiseach Enda Kenny visited a memorial in Copley Square near the finish line of the Boston marathon to lay flowers with Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis today. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/Reuters
Taoiseach lays flowers in memory of Boston marathon blast victims

Enda Kenny says dignity and strength shown following the bombings would ‘deal with the physical and emotional debris of the terror(...)

Property developer Sean Dunne has filed for bankruptcy in the US, which Ulster Bank says is the “culmination of extraordinary efforts” by him to “avoid the application of Irish law to an Irish national with respect to Irish debts and Irish assets”. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Ulster Bank seeks parallel bankruptcy against Dunne

Bank claims property developer is trying to avoid effect of Irish proceedings

The grave of F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, is located in Rockville, Maryland, a commuter town 20 miles northwest of Washington DC. Simon Carswell F Scott Fitzgerald's grave in Rockville, Maryland
All that jazz: grave of F Scott Fitzgerald recalls the life less ordinary

America Letter: the novelist’s final resting place is sober compared with the latest celulloid version of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Daniel Gallagher, one of two Republican commissioners at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said regulatory change has been “pretty intense” over the last three years in response to the financial crisis and that this should be reviewed before further regulations are introduced.
Ireland may have ‘over-corrected’ on financial regulation, US regulator warns

SEC commissioner says care is needed to avoid losing business

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