In 2000 it was considered an aberration. George W Bush had gotten the presidency by chance - a combination of a confusing electoral process, a split Supreme Court and his brother, Florida Governor Jed Bush, had somehow managed to put the Texas Governor into the White House for four years. Free article

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Is the bubble of the Celtic Tiger about to burst? The original spur to the amazing economic growth experienced over the past decade was the influx of Foreign Direct Investment by multinationals, particularly in the IT and chemical industries. But an oft forgotten feature of this extraordinary growth rate was the massive domestic investment, helped by EU funding, in the construction sector, with multi-million euro road infrastructural development and investment in private housing. Free article

On 16 November 1982, 22 years ago, the IRA executed the psychopathic leader of the Shankill Butchers, Lenny Murphy. The Shankill Butchers were a group of Belfast loyalists who abducted nationalists - their victims were usually walking home from a night out - tortured, beat them, and killed them, usually by cutting the throat. Free article

Is iomaí scéal tragóideach atá againn in Éirinn agus maireann gach uafás linn i gcónaí. Is tábhachtach an rud é comóradh a dhéanamh ar an mhéid a d'fhulaing ár sinsear romhainn. Tá neart le foghlaim ó eachtraí staire agus ceachtanna ann don lá inniu is amáraigh. Faraor, tá scéal uafásach le hinse i ngach aon ceantar in Éirinn. Agus an scéal seo ó dheisceart na Gaillimhe á léamh, is dócha go gcuimhnítear ar Bhá Guantanamó nó ar Abu Gharib ar na mallaibh. Free article

Ógra Shinn Féin has been restructured from the start of the year, and already 2004 has proved a very successful start in the re-building of the party's youth wing. Free article