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Over sixty workers spent a fourth night occupying the Waterford Crystal factory on Monday night, protesting the closure of the plant and hoping that a bid from a US-based consortium could save hundreds of jobs Read more...
President Mary McAleese began a five-day official visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Sunday Read more...
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Northern Finance Minister, Nigel Dodds, has responded to claims that the Executive needs to do more for the construction industry in the current economic climate... Read more...
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Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan TD., announced 50 new jobs for Shannon Free Zone in Co. Clare, and congratulated Shannon Development on 50years of commitment to economic development in the Shannon Region on Monday Read more...
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It is perhaps a measure of our times that a planned tribute to the Beatles famed appearance atop the Apple Studios building was shut down by officialdom last week, instead of an intervention from the boys in blue... Read more...
Recession, rising unemployment, doom, gloom and winter blues seem to have become the centrepiece of our everyday lives. Into a world soaked in negativity comes a poem from Liz Williamson of Blackrock, in Cork... Read more...
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Years ago, the great Gore Vidal put it better and more succinctly than I ever could: "This is the moment when you think that you have gone completely insane"... Read more...
Dear oh dear. The six-week long Christmas holidays don't seem to have had the soothing, desired effect on our unelected leader Brian Cowan that we had hoped it would have... Read more...
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There are many instances of a phenomenon known as "addition by subtraction" throughout all aspects of life, culture and experience... Read more...
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What a game, and I was at it... I am talking, of course, about Super Bowl XLIII down in Tampa Bay, Florida where a lot of New York's bar and restaurant owners and bartenders met up... Read more...
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Northern Sports Minister, Gregory Campbell, welcomed Rally Ireland to Enniskillen, the chosen location to launch the World Rally Championship series on Thursday Read more...
On Thursday, Martin Cullen T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism welcomed UEFA's decision to award the hosting of the 2011 Europa League Final (formerly the UEFA Cup) to Dublin Read more...
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