Simple it may sound, but Pountney's partnership with Grayson has seen the Saints climb out of the relegation zone and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup.

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Qualified disaster losses, qualified GO Zone losses, and specified liability losses qualify for even longer carry back periods.

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But a failure to ratify would mean that Ireland could not qualify for future support from the euro-zone bail-out fund.

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