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O Fiscal Taskmaster, give us another lash of your whip!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
THERE are people who make their living from churning out endless streams of statistics.
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Electronic tagging is only way forward for men like Murphy
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
THE media furore surrounding the release of convicted rapist Larry Murphy has brought into sharp focus the State’s ham-fisted attempts at policing newly-released sex offenders.
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There are not too many jobs to be found in the cyber world
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
JOB creation in the United States has ran out of steam less than six months after the Federal Reserve declared the worst recession since the 1930s officially over.
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Laws for provisional licence holders need to be changed
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
ONE of the great success stories of recent years has been the Road Safety Authority’s campaign to reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads.
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Mortgage holders must unite to protect futures
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
THERE are almost 300,000 mortgage holders on standard variable rate loans – that’s 300,000 households that have had their interest rates arbitrarily increased by bailed out financial institutions on at least two and possibly three occasions in the past 12 months.
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A funny old summer for football in the West
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
IN A summer in which Connacht football has been turned on its head more than once, Roscommon produced the most remarkable head-spinner of all at McHale Park last Sunday by winning the Nestor Cup on the same ground where they were demolished by Mayo a year earlier.
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What’s so unthinkable about a Taoiseach from the West?
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
THE Dublin media have it in for Enda Kenny, of that there is no doubt.
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When sorry seems to be the hardest word
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
WE ARE obsessed with the past. That thought struck this writer on Saturday afternoon while listening to Rachel English’s excellent lunchtime current affairs programme on RTE Radio One.
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Johnno’s fate hinges on a game of Russian Roulette in the last chance saloon
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
The shocking capitulation to Sligo has left Mayo football in a very bleak place, writes James Laffey.
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Paying the price for putting style over substance
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
WE ARE our own worst enemies when it comes to selecting politicians for high office.
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Long-term intercounty managers are a rare breed
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
JOHN O’Mahony begins his fourth campaign as Mayo senior football boss on the first Saturday in June.
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Homeowners kept in grip of banks by archaic laws
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
AS PART of the excellent Aftershock series on RTE, broadcaster Matt Cooper offered a novel solution to the negative equity crisis that is now afflicting so many homeowners across the country.
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Meeja ‘clowns’ get a lash from circus boss Maughan
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
SIXTY years ago next September, Mayo defeated Louth to claim the AllIreland senior football title for only the second time.
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Little to take home from wreckage at Croke Park
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
MAYO’S long-suffering football supporters traveled to Croke Park wondering if the county had a team that could win an All-Ireland senior title; they went away wondering if the county has a team that can beat Sligo in the opening round of the Connacht championship.
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Mortgage holders forgotten by sheriff
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
THE recently appointed financial regulator Matthew Elderfield is being held up in some quarters as a latter-day demigod descended from the heavens to save Ireland in its hour of need.
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