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Simon Carswell

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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 chief executive Tim Cook arrives to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters
Ireland labelled a ‘tax haven’ as US Senate investigates Apple’s offshore strategies

Maker of the iPhone and iPad accused of sheltering profits in Irish ‘ghost companies’

Apple chief executive Tim Cook: told of his company’s relationship with Irish governments. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters
Apple defends routing profits through Irish companies

Computer firm paid 2 per cent on $74 billion in sales over past three years, committee hears

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

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