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Clergy pay tribute to Blessed Bertie
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
THE Taoiseach was declared Blessed Bertie with thunderous acclaim by Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders at a farewell reception in Government Buildings.
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We have nothing to fear from Lisbon
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
MAYO-BORN aviation boss Ulick McEvaddy is entitled to express his opposition to the Lisbon Treaty, but he is talking pie in the sky when he claims that its proposed reforms will inaugurate a millennium of Charlemagne-style rule.
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Hillery kept a cool head when political emotions were high
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A CHANGING of the guard, old and new, in Ireland’s political pantehon will be symbolised this Wednesday when Taoiseach-designate Brian Cowen delivers the graveside oration for Ireland’s sixth President, Dr Patrick Hillery, who died on Saturday, aged 84.
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Bertie found himself trapped in Charlie’s corrosive culture
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
WHEN I received an e-mail summons to a news conference on Wednesday morning at Government Buildings, I knew instantly that it tolled the bell for time on Bertie Ahern’s tenure as Taoiseach.
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Bertie takes us all for April fools
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ALL Fools Day, Tuesday April 1, marks a landmark date in the history of the absurd - Irish-style.
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Day of reckoning looms for Bertie
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
BERTIE Ahern is bringing Irish politics to its lowest level of standards in public office ever in the history of a State that prides itself on being a constitutional democracy.
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Catholic bishops challenge the GAA
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
IN her St Patrick’s Day message President Mary McAleese has called on immigrants to take encouragement and inspiration from the national saint as the most influential immigrant of them all.
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Enigma of Ian continues to fascinate
Thursday, March 13, 2008
IAN Paisley's decision to step down as First Minister of the Northern Ireland devolved Government this summer has been marked by eulogies from political leaders that he was the ultimate peace-maker, to angry tirades by commentators that he was the man who stirred the sectarian violence for over three decades.
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A belt of the crozier for Christina
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
THE stern condemnation of the controversial House of Prayer on Achill Island by the Archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary, constitutes a renewed official censure of the movement, founded by a self-proclaimed holy woman, Christina Gallagher.
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Scots look to Ireland for inspiration
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
IN HIS obdurate clinging to office Taoiseach Bertie Ahern continues to debase the fundamental bed-rock of Irish democracy which must be rooted in the transparent integrity of elected public representatives.
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Bookies defrocked in bishop’s race
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
WHAT is the connection between Paddy Power Bookies and the arcane appointment of bishops by the Vatican?
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Ireland’s age of maturity in Europe
Thursday, February 14, 2008
THIRTY-FIVE is the age when most people arrive at a degree of personal maturity gleaned from life experience and the events which shaped their thought and behaviour.
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Cardinal Connell’s secrets continue
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
LAST WEDNESDAY was my annual visit to purgatory for what I call fiscal-soul cleansing. In other words, for my annual financial checkup with my local bank manager in Dublin’s Terenure to get my wayward account into balance.
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A referendum on Bertie’s career
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
NO other individual has made more appearances in this column than Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Nor can I avoid returning to him again this week. For this, I make no apology whatsoever.
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The tide is turning against Bertie
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Shakespeare’s immortal observation that there is a “tide in the affairs of men, which, taken on the flood leads on to fortune” swam unexpectedly into mind as I sat outside a coffee bar enjoying a cappuccino last Thursday in the heart of classical Rome while admiring an awesome view of the Colosseum.
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