It's Not Your Fault, Says Enda Kenny. You're Just Mad.

It's Not Your Fault, Says Enda Kenny. You're Just Mad.

Enda Kenny told us in December that the financial crisis is not our fault, but yesterday he told the rest of the world that we're all mad, so which is [...]

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Ivor Callely Arrested Twice

Ivor Callely Arrested Twice

In a joint operation with itself, the Garda Bilocation Unit has carried out simultaneous arrests of Ivor Callely in Dublin and Cork. Supt Peadar Pio, joint head of the unit [...]

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Hermann Goering's Embarrassing Relatives

Hermann Goering's Embarrassing Relatives

If you happen to be a Reichsmarschall , senior to all other military officers in the German armed forces, and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, you're bound to think of yourself [...]

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Troika Inspectors Give Ireland an A-Grade

Troika Inspectors Give Ireland an A-Grade

Well, aren't we the best boys and girls in the whole wide world? Yet again, we've managed to hit our targets for the Troika, and all we had to do [...]

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Priory Hall Builder, Tom McFeely, Gets UK Bankruptcy

Priory Hall Builder, Tom McFeely, Gets UK Bankruptcy

Tom McFeely doesn't look much like a hunger striker these days, but in his IRA phase, back in 1980, he went 53 days without food in support of demands for [...]

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Rick Santorum Has Much In Common With Fundamentalist Islam

Rick Santorum Has Much In Common With Fundamentalist Islam

Extreme Catholic right GOP candidate has most in common with Islamic politicians yet might have best chance of beating Obama

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Margaret Thatcher -- The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher — The Iron Lady

I don't know if Elvis Costello's views about Margaret Thatcher have mellowed at all since he wrote Tramp The Dirt Down, but I doubt it. Well I hope I don't [...]

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

I don't care if it rains or freezes, just as long as I got my plastic Jesus

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Dead Pensioners Paid €18 Million.  Dead Bank Paid €3,600 Million, Every Year For the Next Ten Years.

Dead Pensioners Paid €18 Million. Dead Bank Paid €3,600 Million, Every Year For the Next Ten Years.

Huge money down the drain every year to pay bondholders of defunct institutions

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Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel

Ten years ago, when I visited Prague for the first time, I read a story that  encapsulated for me not only the nature of Vaclav Havel, reluctant first president of [...]

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