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...experience of France suggests that spending pays, Ireland - where the fertility rate was 1.98 last year, the E.U.'s highest - shows it might not be that simple. "Ireland is not a child-friendly place," says John FitzGerald, an economics professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. "Child care is underdeveloped and expensive. And if women take time out from the labor force to have children, they are discriminated against in the workplace." If it wasn't for the high level of births to unmarried mothers, Ireland's fertility rate would be in trouble, says sociologist Tony Fahey...
...real money on the race. The major exchanges--the Iowa Electronic Markets and Intrade--have, on average, given Bush about a 60% chance of winning since September. While some say the markets are too small to be clairvoyant (only $8 million has been traded in the Bush contract at Dublin-based Intrade, the largest market), they have impressive records. Since 1988, the Iowa exchange's average error in presidential races has been less than 1.5 percentage points--compared with more than 2 points among major polls, says Forrest Nelson, a founder of the exchange...
...Born in Dublin, Hassan is married to an Iraqi, holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship and has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She has been a critic of sanctions over the years and a stalwart leader, before and during the war, of efforts to improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well...
Frank is one of thousands of politically-charged bettors who flock to tradesports.com, a Dublin-based online trading exchange for economic, sporting and political events, to try their luck at predicting this year’s election...
...delightful mix of traditional Irish folk music and surging punk rock, the Los Angeles-based Flogging Molly presents some of the best music the Warped Tour lot has to offer. Fronted by Dublin native Dave King, this sextet sports a fiddle, accordion and mandolin. These guys know how to rumble with the best of them, but some of their finest moments come during their sweeping, heartfelt ballads. Their third album, Within a Mile of Home, was released just last month and continues the magnetic style they first displayed on their debut, Swagger. 18+. Tickets $17.75. 7 p.m. Avalon Night Club...