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Weathering Calamity
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Weathering Calamity
The images from Texas have been heartbreaking. The flash floods in the state's Hill Country swept away the lives and dreams of hundreds. Lives were...
British Strategy to Cover Up Collusion: Deny, Delay, and Wait for People to Die!
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British Strategy to Cover Up Collusion: Deny, Delay, and Wait for People to Die!
At a recent Ancient Order of Hibernians webinar on the Sean Brown case, National President Sean Pender described the British strategy for handling ...
The GPO's Future
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The GPO's Future
Just about everyone in Ireland knows what you are referring to when you say "The GPO." Of late, the reference might be followed by a thought: what ...
GERRY ADAMS: Reject Dublin government's shameful betrayal of sacred GPO site
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GERRY ADAMS: Reject Dublin government's shameful betrayal of sacred GPO site
THE Dublin GPO and the streets and laneways around it are forever linked with the Easter Rising of 1916. This is a battlefield site of major histor...
Beginning To Look Elsewhere
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Beginning To Look Elsewhere
You will hear the joke in Ireland, variations of it. Only it's not entirely a joke. Someone will say that he or she was planning on a trip to the S...
LETTER: AND SO, AFTER 100 DAYS
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LETTER: AND SO, AFTER 100 DAYS
Editor: It is popular to use a 100-day cycle to report progress or measure change particularly in government. More than one hundred days have now p...
KIRWAN: A Beer and a Shot Amid All the Shots
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KIRWAN: A Beer and a Shot Amid All the Shots
Stefan Lutak was Ukrainian. He owned the Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark’s Place. Despite its name it was a beer-and-shot joint I stumbled into...
An Oasis Survives
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An Oasis Survives
And now for a little good news. We could do with it. And the news is that a sliver of green, a tiny urban oasis in Manhattan, has survived after a ...
GERRY ADAMS: Burning houses a salutary reminder of August '69
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GERRY ADAMS: Burning houses a salutary reminder of August '69
IN 1972, Catholic families who had endured three years of sustained sectarian attacks on their homes fled Annalee Street in North Belfast. Last mon...
A Slippery Slope
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A Slippery Slope
The parade saluting the U.S. Army's 250th birthday went ahead and the rain pretty much held off. And that was good. The idea of a parade for such a...
GERRY ADAMS: A fitting tribute to the heroes of 1916
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GERRY ADAMS: A fitting tribute to the heroes of 1916
REGULAR readers of this column will know that I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Moore Street Preservation Trust to preserve the 1916 Moor...
Only The Beginning 
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Only The Beginning 
On its web page, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has a notice aimed at any and all who might be considering a career with the federal ...


 



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