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Dan Griffin

Dan Griffin

Irish Times Reporter

Dan Griffin, who joined the Irish Times in September 2012, is an online reporter for The Irish Times who also covers local news from the Fingal County Council area in north Dublin. Previously he worked with an Irish community newspaper in London, covering stories relevant to the UK-based expatriate community. In addition has worked with Irish-based charity Self Help Africa, for whom he wrote a blog ‘A Village in Africa’ in summer 2012.

The collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar outside Dhaka, in which more than 1,100 people died on April 24th. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
EU threatens action over Bangladesh working conditions

Union will press for inquiry into labour practices unless it sees improvement

Brick layers work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Giza governorate in Egypt. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
EU dissatisfied at delays returning frozen assets to north African countries

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta listen to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels today. Photograph: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
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Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore: “Ireland does not negotiate special tax-rate deals with any company.” Photograph: Alan Betson
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European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU has built up a “toolbox” for tackling tax avoidance and fraud and “now we have to use it.”
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Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has been announced as an official candidate in the European ombudsman election by European Parliament president Martin Schulz.
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Robert Watt said a culture change was required within the public sector.
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A man looking at a Nazi flag from a display in the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
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