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Tuesday June 21, 2011

NEWS

Bono's Celeb Friends Out In Force For Spiderman Premiere

Former US president Bill Clinton turned out on Broadway last week to support Bono and the Edge at the official opening of their $75m Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark musical Read more...

Labour Selects Higgins As Candidate

Michael D Higgins will be the Labour Party candidate in November's presidential election after he won the most support at a selection convention held in Dublin on Sunday Read more...

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BUSINESS

Bondholders To Be Repaid 'To The Last Cent' Pledges Noonan

Finance Minister Michael Noonan says his comments in Washington last week about burning senior bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide were "given a weighting they didn't actually deserve" because of the escalating debt crisis in Greece Read more...

'Jobless Paddy' Is Hired After Billboard Stunt

A young Irish man has landed a job after an ambitious and expensive gamble paid off... Read more...

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ARTS

Achtung Spidey! Forgettable Fare

Vincent Murphy reviews Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark Read more...

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

Phillip Eric Sobel of Jackson Heights, Queens is the author of this week's well written and meaningful poem Read more...

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OPINION

The Darkest Of Times: Random Thoughts On Irish Pub Culture

Whether or not I send on this week's column, if it can even be loosely described as such, I don't know yet. As I sit here at five in the morning I just want to get a few thoughts out on paper... Read more...

"Why Aren't You Speaking English?"

That was the question that Texas Senator Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington, was asking last week of Antolin Aguirre who was testifying against Senate Bill 9 which cracks down on illegal immigration... Read more...

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FEATURES

Michael Noonan: The Man in the Hot Seat

Finance Minister Michael Noonan talks to Vincent Murphy about the bailout, his first 100 days in the job, and how you can help Ireland's recovery Read more...

Out & About

Is it here yet? I do mean summer... And the answer is obviously no not yet as we did have a lot of rain in the last week. I should know as I got soaked; ah well, I might be crying for rain in a few weeks... Read more...