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Statistics give All-Ireland profile of our country

One island, 5,981,467 lives and a multitude of shared challenges. The fourth North-South statistical profile of the island of Ireland was published last week by the Central Statistics Office and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

INTERNATIONAL : Uribe's dirty tricks to take credit for freeing Ingrid Betancourt

IT IS NOW almost six months since the Colombian Government launched a surprise attack on an encampment in neighbouring Ecuador and uncovered allegedly sensational and incontrovertible evidence that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was funding the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Photo: Ingrid Betancourt

Fête na gCrustaithe sa Bhriotáin

Bhuel mar a thuair mé an tseachtain seo caite, bhí baisteach ann beagnach gach uile lá den chéad seachtain saoire agus fiú nuair a stop sé bhí an talamh comh fliuch sin go raibh muid mar a dúirt an file tráth 'livin' in Drumlister and clábar dae the knees'. Ar ndóigh ní raibh gach duine sa ghrúpa ag gearán faoi seo, ní raibh by dad.

Remembering the Past: Fr Michael O'Flanagan

Fr. Michael O’Flanagan in New York campaigning for the Spanish Republic with, right, IRA veteran from Navan, Gerald O’Reilly, a founder of the Transport Workers Union of the United States

BEST-KNOWN as the clergyman who said the prayer which opened the public session of the First Dáil Éireann in 1919, Fr Michael O'Flanagan was in fact a very significant revolutionary in his own right. His republican and social activism spanned several decades.

Photo: Fr. Michael O’Flanagan in New York campaigning for the Spanish Republic with, right, IRA veteran from Navan, Gerald O’Reilly, a founder of the Transport Workers Union of the United States

Matt Treacy

YOU REALLY get no conception of how fanatical New Yorkers are about baseball until you visit the place. New York Yankees hats and shirts (this in Manhattan and the Bronx as opposed to Queen's, where the Mets rule the roost) are everywhere. 'Stickball', the traditional favoured street game of New York kids, has fallen victim to traffic and demographic change but you can still see children playing it in parks. It's basically the same as rounders and you still see it being played with a long straight pole rather than a proper bat.

Who needs democracy?

IN SATURDAY'S Irish Times, Michael McDowell fanboy Stephen Collins was making sure that any of his readers who might be curious at Steo's contempt for the Irish electorate were left in no doubt at just how massive it is.

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