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Rare civility in an age of insults
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Rare civility in an age of insults
[caption id="attachment_71533" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Speaker Christine Quinn."][/caption] Christine Quinn, the woman who would b...
Price of success
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Price of success
Congratulations to Leinster and Ulster who, in a few days time, will battle for Europe's most prestigious club rugby trophy, the Heineken Cup. The ...
Change, no change
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Change, no change
When the weather is bad in Ireland, that is to say when it is bad on a sustained basis, people often muse on the idea of what living on the island ...
How Elbridge Gerry set me up
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How Elbridge Gerry set me up
[caption id="attachment_71406" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Elbridge Gerry."][/caption] Elbridge Gerry was one of the founding Fathers,...
Less change and more the way it was
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Less change and more the way it was
[caption id="attachment_71403" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Fenway Park"][/caption] I haven't seen Bostonians this distressed in many, ...
A Nor'easter couldn't dampen this crowd's commitment
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A Nor'easter couldn't dampen this crowd's commitment
[caption id="attachment_71400" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Marian Price."][/caption] As driving rains and threats of a Nor'easter kept...
A May vote
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A May vote
Ah, May, a most welcome month most years in that it is sufficiently removed from winter's cold and summer's heat in roughly equal measure. On the v...
Behind Titanic tragedy,  another dark story
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Behind Titanic tragedy, another dark story
[caption id="attachment_71260" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Titanic under construction at Harland and Wolff. "][/caption] The story...
School reform is more than a slogan in Ireland
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School reform is more than a slogan in Ireland
[caption id="attachment_71257" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ruairi Quinn."][/caption] School reform is one of the most-contentious issu...
Arsenic and austerity
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Arsenic and austerity
The problem with a government trying to impose economic and/or social policy, at least in a democracy, is not infrequently politics cutting across ...
Silence and indifference threaten future peace
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Silence and indifference threaten future peace
[caption id="attachment_71251" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jack Lynch."][/caption] The approach of St Patrick's Day was, in my time as...
Farewell to the last of the Irish Rovers
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Farewell to the last of the Irish Rovers
[caption id="attachment_71123" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ciaran Bourke "][/caption] There are very few surprises left for me in the ...

 



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