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Martin wades into abortion debateAs the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers "be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable".
Payment cuts see families pay rent shortfallLimits on rent supplement payments set by the Government are forcing thousands of families to make undeclared top-up payments to landlords to secure places to live.
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Anger as North Korea launches another missileNorth Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.
How Star Trek predicted the futureWHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.
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Warnings over future of eurozoneThe eurozone is heading towards a break up unless there are moves towards much closer political and fiscal union, according to chief economist with State Street Global Advisers, Chris Probyn.
Bruton defends corporate tax rateIreland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.
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Mayo’s statement of intentGalway 0-11 Mayo 4-16 Five minutes to go in Salthill yesterday and James Horan was still cajoling his men to sew it into Galway.
Wilkinson inspires Toulon to gloryASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Toulon 16 Not for the first time this season, a matchday performance and the result have made a mockery of the statistics.
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Clothes maketh you madTrying on clothes, said Ewart, produced "sensations which bring deep peace and perfect contentment" to the female mind.
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Plane sailing for Red Army
By Liam Mackey
THE Green Army are bound to be watching the Red Army’s Euro finals manoeuvres with interest in light of the remarkable news two of Russia’s biggest airlines have indicated they will answer a call by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to transport the national team’s fans to Euro 2012 for free.
Putin last week met with a Russian fans group who told him the air fares to travel to Poland and the Ukraine were too expensive. According to reports in Moscow, the Prime Minister promptly contacted the country’s two largest air companies, Aeroflot and Transaero, who indicated they would be willing to comply for the tournament.“We’re ready to participate, but it is still in the discussion stage,” a Transaero spokesman said. Our partner, the Gazpromneft-Aero company is in agreement to supply the fuel for the flight to Kiev.”
Aeroflot have also agreed to transport the fans, but the number of flights and the destinations have not yet been fixed, a spokesman told the daily Vedomosti.
Clearly, this is an example which our own glorious leader would do well to follow. And how interesting it would be to be fly on the wall when Enda Kenny runs it by Michael O’ Leary, stressing such matters as the national interest, the importance of sport and the need to lift the morale of our people in these recessionary times. Michael’s response would be interesting too, if perhaps a little shorter. Just two words, maybe, one of which could well be ‘off’.