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    • Shareholders may have bloodied the nose of Elan management with their rejection of its investment plans at Monday’s extraordinary general meeting but, in its most recent update, Royalty had secured acceptances of less than 8 per cent of Elan’s stock. Words not figures proved the undoing of Royalty’s hostile Elan bid
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    • “For the Taoiseach it was an image to die for. There’s nothing a leader likes more than proximity to more powerful leaders.” US president Barack Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny take a walk at the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Fermanagh. Photograph: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland Lough Erne G8 plan could spell trouble for Ireland’s corporate tax regime
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    • Paul O’Neill training in the Dublin mountains for the fearsome Marmotte route. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Alpine trek: the end of a journey only a bicycle could make possible
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    • Jon Hopkins performing in London in 2011: ‘For live shows . . . It’s quite physical – it certainly isn’t just me sitting quietly behind a laptop. And it’s very loud, very dancey.’ Photograph:  Hayley Madden/Redferns The emotional underground heartbeat of Jon Hopkins
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