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The survival of the Irish government is in doubt, after two TDs threatened to withdraw their support on the issue of health service spending cuts... Read more...
Tom Elliott has been elected as the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. He takes over from Reg Empey at a time when its support is at one of the lowest levels in its 70-year history Read more...
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The Irish economy unexpectedly shrank in the second quarter of this year according to official figures released last week... Read more...
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US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has praised Irish efforts to tackle world hunger, saying: "the Irish know what hunger means from their history. They have become world leaders in the fight." Read more...
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Luka Bloom is trad great Christy Moore's younger brother, Kevin Barry. Or, if you like, Christy Moore is the older brother of singer-songwriter Irish folk-rocer Luka Bloom... Read more...
All lyric poetry can be described as poetry of personal feeling and as long as poets are individuals, all different from one another, and as long as they feel impelled to express their feelings in durable form, there will be lyric poetry... Read more...
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You know, I just feel like screaming and roaring from the rooftops this week; but I'm not going to. That can wait for another week... Read more...
It's been several months since I've had a newspaper delivered to my door. I cancelled my local paper, The Staten Island Advance, after a particularly nasty op-ed article bashed the Tea Party movement as racist... Read more...
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Check out our Digital Edition for our special Enterprise and Entrepreneurship supplements in co-operation with Enterprise Ireland Americas, featuring the hottest companies doing business in Ireland and the USA Read more...
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I would like to start off by telling you about the half-way to St. Patrick's Day Party at Rockville Centre with the St. Patrick's Parade kick-off fundraiser on October 2nd... Read more...
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Celtic started the week with an impressive 6-0 victory over Inverness CT in the Third Round of the CIS Insurance Cup and capped off that success with a hard-fought 2-1 win against Hibs at Parkhead... Read more...
After handing Chelsea the title the day before, Roberto Mancini watched his Manchester City side promptly snatch it away again as Carlos Tevez's second-half strike ended the Champions' 100 per cent record... Read more...
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