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Tuesday May 3, 2011

NEWS

Health Minister Clears Out HSE Board

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has accepted the resignations of the entire board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) in the first move towards abolishing the organization Read more...

Kenny Vows To Abolish Seanad Despite FG Winning 18 Seats

Counting is complete in what might turn out to be the last ever Seanad elections. Fine Gael won the most seats - 18, an increase of four on the 2007 elections, while Labour increased its representation by two to nine seats Read more...

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BUSINESS

NAMA Gets Tough With Indebted Developers

High-rolling developers, brothers Ray and Danny Grehan, have been given until Tuesday evening to respond to a demand for payment from NAMA, or receivers will be re-appointed to their company and personal assets Read more...

Fred Astaire's Daughter To Sell Irish Home

The daughter of movie legend Fred Astaire is putting the home she shares in west Cork with her husband up for sale. Clonlea Cottage, on three and a half acres of land, at Castlepoint near Schull has an asking price of €525,000 Read more...

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ARTS

Shock As Mrs Brown's Boys Gets BAFTA Nod

Even its creator Brendan O'Carroll has admitted he was "gobsmacked" that his show Mrs Brown's Boys had been nominated for a prestigious BAFTA television award Read more...

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

Have you been to Arizona ? It is a State I would love to visit but until such time it is hard to comment or pass judgment on what it's like to live there. One can only assume that its history reflects the power, the triumph, the struggle for justice and the mundane reality of humane nature as much as anywhere else... Read more...

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OPINION

The Mad Blind Hands Of Fanatics

Let's film a bunch of thugs in balaclavas. Let's pretend that they have something legitimate to say. Once we have done this, then let this bunch be shown on prime time RTE, and make no mistake about it, being given more coverage than if there had been a 10 on the Richter Scale earthquake in Dublin... Read more...

You Must Be A Racist If You Don't Love Obama, Right?

CBS anchorman Bob Schieffer says that Donald Trump is a racist. Whoopie Goldberg and her colleague on the View, Joy Behar, concur. MSNBC host Ed Schultz interpreted Mr. Trump's questioning as to how Obama was able to get into Harvard with his alleged poor grades, as a racist remark doubting Obama's intelligence... Read more...

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FEATURES

At The Mike Stand With... Donall O'Healai

So there we were minding our own, and well, everybody else's business, when who, (or is that whom), should we bump into, but young Irish actor, Donall O'Healai... Read more...

Out & About

I heard that I was missed last week after we got complaints as to why the 'Out & About' was not in the paper... well I will tell you now... Read more...

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DIGITAL EDITION

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SPORTS

Dublin Win First League Hurling Title Since 1939

Dublin have finally arrived. After years of threatening to make a breakthrough, Anthony Daly's side can now comfortably stand side by side with the made men of the ancient game after a stunning 0-22 to 1-7 defeat of Kilkenny gave them their first League title since 1939... Read more...

Leinster Set Up Final Date With The Saints

Last season's Heineken Cup champions Toulouse were dethroned by Leinster in a bruising semi-final showdown at the Aviva Stadium... Read more...

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