I met him last weekend at our friend Lubi 30th birthday in the Tippenyaki restaurant. I spoke to him during the night and the next day I have checked their website to find out more.

The High Kings is an Irish band, from the production and creators of Celtic Woman. The High Kings band featuring Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden, is hailed as the most exciting Irish ballad band these days. They have recently concluded their US and Irish tour. Carrying on the great tradition of Irish music this band has taken the music world by storm over the last twelve months.

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The extra cost would be met by music download sites like iTunes, the record companies or passed on to the consumer.

According to Apple officials, if iTunes were forced to absorb any increase in the mechanical royalty rates, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss – which is no alternative at all.

Apple has repeatedly made clear that it is in this business to make money, and would most likely not continue to operate iTunes if it were no longer possible to do so profitably.

The popular iTunes download site is the driving software behind the iPod music player. If the iTunes music download site were to be shut down, then people would not be able to download any more tracks on to their iPods from the internet.

iTunes is the world’s most popular online music store with eight million different tracks to choose from, giving it an 85% share of the digital music market.

Following discussion, the threatened strike has been called off, after the bank and unions agreed that all eligible employees will receive a one non-pensionable payment of 3% in October this year.

I took my Staff Stock Issue last year and purchase an additional for the maximum amount I could. Well, the price of the stock was €15 / share. Today, the price of share is €5.75. What a loss. It doesn’t bother me too much, as most of the shares we got free of charge as the bonus from the bank. About two weeks ago, we received our Staff Stock Issue bonus for last year, and again, we have a chance to buy an additional. What bothers me now is that the price has not been set yet. We had to made our decision and respond to the offer without knowing of what the price will we buy the shares at. And that sucks. The bank has been lately dishonest to the staff, and I have a feeling that we will pay more for our additional stock then the market price is. I have emailed the people who deal with this issue, and they replied that the share price will be set on 8th of July when the bank’s Annual General Meeting take place at the headquarters of the bank. This is not what I want to hear, and this really bothers me, beacoause we already had to decide if we want to purchase an additional stock, and now we will wait what price will be set, without a chance to back out if the price will be higher then the market price. That means, we are totally depending on the bank’s decision. And let me tell you, most of the staff does not trust the bank officials any more. No wonder.

There is something peculiar going on in the bank these days. As part of the massive rationalisation programme in the bank in 2005, the bank’s officials signed the agreement providing for a Staff Stock Issue of 6% until 2009. The bank has only offered us a 3%, which is clearly breach of the agreement and the staff, of course, is not happy at all. And so am I. I haven’t pointed out an important fact, that the bank’s annual groups profit this year was almost €1.8 billion, the highest profit ever.

What a rip off.

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