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Father Time blows whistle on Ciaran Mac’s Mayo career
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
ONE of the reasons why sport at the highest level is such a compelling spectacle is that it acts as a mirror on life as we live it.
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Challenge for Brian Cowen
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
INCOMING Taoiseach Brian Cowen only has to look across the water to the local elections in England to realise the enormity of the challenge he faces on taking up the reigns from Bertie Ahern.
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Winners and losers in US election
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
LAST January, as the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States set out to nominate their candidates for next November’s presidential contest, Newsweek published an article in which it compared the mood in both camps.
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Rainy days...without an umbrella
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
It was the celebrated American writer Mark Twain who famously remarked that a banker is the type of man who will lend you his umbrella on a sunny day.
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Court office closure a blow for Ballina
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
THERE is an air of inevitability surrounding the rumoured closure of the courts office in Ballina and its merging with its counterpart in Castlebar.
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Beverley kisses and makes up with Bertie and FF
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
An elderly friend once told this writer the story of how he and his friends often gained ‘free’ entry into the dancehalls in days of yore.
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Letting the State off the hook
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
On the front page of Community Focus in this week’s Western People we report on comments made by Belmullet-based Cllr Tim Quinn at a meeting of the HSE West where he alluded to the State’s dependency on fund-raising for solving many of the problems in the health sector.
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Ballina gets the short straw again
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
IN MORE than a decade of covering events in Ballina I cannot recall a news story that has exercised the minds of the general public as much as the speculation that the Ridgepool Hotel is to be converted into a hostel for refugees.
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Ahern must defend illegal Irish in US
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The annual visit by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to the White House to present the US President George W Bush with the traditional bowl of shamrock brought into focus once again the plight of the 50,000 undocumented Irish in the United States.
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Hillary back from dead ... again
Thursday, March 13, 2008
IF Hillary Clinton manages to secure the US presidential nomination for the Democratic Party it will be one of the greatest achievements in American political history.
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Trappa deal good for Irish soccer
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
IN THE fortnight since the FAI announced the appointment of Giovanni Trapattoni as the new Irish soccer boss there has been no shortage of opinions aired on the radio waves and in newspapers.
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Putting the boot in the sock industry
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
I am not a fashion expert as anyone who has seen my wardrobe will testify. Nor do I pretend to be even remotely au fait with the latest offerings from the design houses of the western world.
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Obama’s time for change has come
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Maybe I’m becoming old and cynical but I’m afraid I cannot understand the fuss that US presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, has managed to stir up across the Atlantic.
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Ladies football at a crossroads
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
DOES ANYONE know what exactly is happening with the Mayo ladies senior football team? The failure of the County Board to reappoint manager, Frank Browne, last week has left the ladies game in the county in a state of crisis.
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Free transport and the elderly
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
One of the reasons this writer has a bit of a soft spot for a certain Mr CJ Haughey is that were it not for the bould Charlie the senior citizens of this country would be without their free transport.
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