facultative reinsurance. A form of reinsurance whereby each exposure the ceding company wishes to reinsure is offered to the reinsurer and is contained in a single transaction. The submission, acceptance, and resulting agreement is required on each individual risk that the ceding company seeks to reinsure.
Ireland (/ËaÉªÉrlÉnd/; Irish: Ãire [ËeËÉ¾Ê²É]), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÃireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland.
Ireland is an island in Europe. To the west of Ireland is the Atlantic Ocean; to the east of Ireland, across the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain. The island of Ireland is about 486 km (302 miles) long and about 288 km (179 miles) wide. About 6.4 million people live on the island â 4.6 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.8 million in Northern Ireland.