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IT’S not hard to see how the pain of the last 20 years have taken their toll on Ralph Bulger.

Late last night in Miami, the old F Scott Fitzgerald adage about no second acts gracing American lives was given a run for its money by an inconsequential game between the New York Mets and the Miami Marlins.

THE TV series currently being shown on BBC4, Illuminations; the Private Lives of Medieval Kings, featured an item on the production of vellum.

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AN American woman blinked back tears of joy yesterday as she cuddled five puppies cloned from her beloved dead pit bull terrier.

The sister of a man shot dead outside her home broke-down in the witness box today as she gave evidence of realising the shouting and gunfire she had heard while trying to sleep, was that of her brother’s killer.

The US military fired on suspected militants from an AC-130 gunship lingering in the sky above the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi today while hundreds of US and Iraqi troops punched into an eastern section of the violent city.

COURAGEOUS Anna Nolan was smiling through her pain yesterday.

MURDER victim Robert McCartney's sisters have joined forces with the family of another man allegedly killed for defying the IRA and vowed to bring the killers to justice.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has agreed to meet with the family of murder victim Joseph Rafferty, who allege his killers had connections to Sinn Féin and the IRA.