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17 May 2007 Edition

Media View

17 May 2007

Republicans are well used to media bigotry, distortion and downright lies, and the sustained attacks from those who want to keep the status quo, but the current general election campaign is showing that we are not the only ones to feel the boot of those who believe that they have a divine right to rule. Free article

Fifth Column

17 May 2007

Here’s looking at you, kid

Election candidates canvassed for their movie preferences by the Irish Times’s weekly entertainment guide, The Ticket, have shown cross-party support for that Bogart and Bergman classic, Casablanca.
It’s probably the only thing Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald and Progressive Democrats leader Michael McDowell have in common. Though comedian Brendan O’Carroll... Free article

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Letter to the Taoiseach

17 May 2007

I was going to go over and say 'hello' but I did not bother. You might be wondering, Bertie, why I did not line up for the handshake with you in the Great Hall. Free article


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