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As we went to press on Monday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was scheduled to meet his Taoiseach Brian Cowen for talks about the situation in the North at Downing Street Read more...
The Minster for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern T.D., has published the new Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2010 that will see the establishment, for the first time, of a national DNA database in Ireland Read more...
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The US-Ireland Alliance, a non-profit organization created to foster ties between the US and Ireland, will honor J.J. Abrams, Saoirse Ronan and Seamus McGarvey at the fifth annual "Oscar Wilde: Honoring The Irish in Film," awards... Read more...
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Minister of State for Overseas Development, Peter Power, T.D., has announced a second consignment of 40 tonnes of essential humanitarian supplies for Haiti... Read more...
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Musician Niall Connolly - a prolific musician whose performed with Damien Dempsey -joins Mike Fitzpatrick at the Mike Stand Read more...
Back in Ireland old people can travel free on buses and there are still some well bred young people who proudly give up their seat on a bus to a senior citizen. Not an easy subject with which to approach a poem but 12-year-old Ciara Murphy of Ballincollig in County Cork shows us she has the ability and the courage to take on such a task... Read more...
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A couple of years back I did some work in Venezuela and I think it's fair to say that their president is as mad as Mad Jack McMad trying to airlift a case of insanely p***ed-off rattle snakes out of Madville... Read more...
There's something rather pathetic about the high-speed reaction to every major event that occurs in today's news. Perhaps the 24-hour cable coverage and the Internet have something to do with the hysterical reaction to Republican Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts... Read more...
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Hope you got a new kettle for the New Year as we gave the old one a bit of a hammering with all the cuppa's we had last year; well what are you waiting for? Go on, plug it in and we'll have the first fresh cuppa to start the New Year and while you're at it why not put on your slippers and put your feet up... Read more...
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I visited the County Cork Association Club last Sunday for the Installation of the new Officers and to meet the re-elected President of the Association: Mary Power. Now I am wondering? Is she the president three or four times now... Read more...
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Johnny Sexton dramatically drop kicked London Irish out of the quarter-finals of the Heineken Cup moments after the English Premiership side had thought they had done enough to book a ticket into the big time... Read more...
Goals from Nicolas Anelka and Daniel Sturridge saw Chelsea safely through to the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 win over Preston North End at Deepdale... Read more...
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