03/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - Boycott of Irish housing tax. Nearly half of all Irish home-owners (805,000 of 1.6 million) are reported to have refused to pay the new tax introduced on their main residence, according to website euobserver.com. The new tax is part of the structural adjustment programme Ireland has to implement as a condition of the international aid package it has received, worth €67.5 billion. (MB/transl.fl)