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Pilgrims feel the wrath of God on the Reek
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
THE old saying that religion can be bad for your health took a new twist in regard to the bad weather during the annual pilgrimage to Mayo’s Holy Mountain when rumours circulated of a fatality.
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A sleeping Biffo and Catholic women priests
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen’s political creditworthiness has taken a further heavy blow with the revelations in documents published by the Dáil’s public accounts committee about his doziness as Minister for Finance in early 2008 as the currency crisis was preparing to assume gale force proportions.
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Nama, Noonan and some ‘Up Mayo’ politics
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
BEWARE of a strange sinister creature this summer holiday, if you have decided to spend your coveted vacation on an inclement Irish beach instead of a Greek, Spanish, Portuguese or French oasis of sun.
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Kenny’s team emerges from shorn long grass
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
THE late John ‘Backbencher’ Healy would have cheered on the son of the late Henry Kenny.
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Debt of scholarship owed to Dr Sheila Mulloy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
CANON Patrick Comerford accompanied me from Dublin to Castlebar for the book launch of a watershed publication in 1798 studies in which he contributes a rounded profile of the Bishop of Killala, Joseph Stock, and I write about his uninvited palace guestvisitor in that stirring year of Rebellion in the West, General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert of the Army of the French Republic.
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Home-spun Houdini brings home the bacon
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
HAROLD Wilson’s famous dictum that “a week is a long time in politics” has never had a more graphic illustration of its validity than Richard Bruton’s abortive attempt to dislodge Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael.
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Bruton blunder has Cowen laughing up his sleeve
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny face D-day in a unique conjuncture in the history of Irish politics where the future of the country’s two most important heads of political parties are under contestation simultaneously from challenges to their leadership.
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Vatican probe amounts to State interference
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
DUBLINER Ivor Callely has not only disgraced himself over his €81,000 travel and subsistence claim from his holiday home in west Cork, he has shown up the scandalous flaws in the expenses regime for Dáil deputies and senators that has further confirmed in the public mind its perception that dishonour scars the core of the Irish political system.
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Ignore the lessons of history at your peril
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
IN June 1970 I obtained a diploma qualifying me to teach history and modern studies in secondary schools.
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Time we declared national economic emergency
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
JUST as the finest spell of weather of the year so far over the week-end was restoring a sense of wellbeing, a doomsday scenario was staked out starkly in the opening sentence of a newspaper article which read: “It is no longer a question of whether Ireland will go bust, but when.”
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Spin wins out over straight talk and leadership
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
FURIOUS media spin-doctoring by three prominent public figures in the past week has thrown up curious whiter-than-white specimens of its cunning craft, first inspired by Machiavelli long ago in Florence.
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Political parallels of Biffo and Brown
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
PITHY phrases such as ‘young fogey’, ‘the chattering classes’ and the Tory ‘men in suits’ have been so absorbed into the English language that they have acquired the status of clichés.
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More to Gerry than hype and hyper-reality
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
THE first time I heard the name of Gerry Ryan was in 1979, the year he began broadcasting on the new RTE II station.
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Out of obscurity and into the frying pan
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
THE profile of Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, once a household name in Ireland, dipped to such a low level after 15 years’ absence from national politics that if an opinion poll had been taken in recent weeks as to who represented this country in the European Commission, I’m sure her name would have hardly registered outside political circles.
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Labour’s new constitution is the right move
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
EAMON Gilmore has distinguished himself from other political leaders in Ireland by calling for a new constitution, the fundamental legal framework which defines a nation and how it conducts its affairs.
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