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Dr Alasdair McDonnell has been voted in as the fifth leader of the SDLP, once the largest nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but now playing second fiddle to Sinn Fein Read more...
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted that the decision by the Irish government to close down the country's Vatican embassy has nothing to do with the row between the two States over clerical child sex abuse Read more...
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Describing it as "the lesser of two evils", the Irish government has repaid €720 million to unguaranteed bondholders with Anglo Irish Bank in the face of massive public anger and opposition Read more...
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Ireland has been overstating its national debt by a whopping €3.6 billion ($5bn) due to an accounting error that went uncorrected for more than a year... Read more...
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Christine McCarthy is a native New Yorker. Her great grandmother came from Cork and arrived with a note pinned to her chest from Ellis Island. She would certainly be very proud of her descendants today, especially her great granddaughter! Read more...
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One of the earliest lessons in the study of our democracy is that our country is based on the rule by the majority along with the rights of the minority. Somehow over the past three decades, this edict has been turned on its head with the tyranny of a minority ruling the nation... Read more...
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Once the dust settles, the tumbleweeds have passed, the good guys ride off into the sunset, and the baddies are, well, removed from the equation, we could well be assured as to what genre AMC's new drama series, 'Hell on Wheels' falls into... Read more...
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It's going to be another busy week this week as we have a lot going on in this fair city of New York... Read more...
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Jonathan Sexton rifled over seven penalties to steer Leinster to a deserved RaboDirect PRO12 derby victory over defending champions Munster... Read more...
Tottenham Hotspur survived a second-half onslaught at Craven Cottage to deny Fulham manager Martin Jol a satisfying Premier League victory over his former club Read more...
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