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ETHIOPIA will forever leave images of solitary walkers in my mind’s eye, lone men and women walking beside country roads or on paths across endless plains, miles from villages or any habitation, writes Damien Enright.

Mon, 06 Mar, 2017

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It’s time to celebrate ‘the second Adam’

HARDERWIJK is on the edge of the Veluwemeer, the long neck of the Zuiderzee, at the dead centre of the Netherlands.

Mon, 02 Jul, 2007

When Tara was saved by three famous names

IN the early years of the last century considerable damage was inflicted on the Rath of the Synods on the Hill of Tara by the British Israelites who believed lost tribesmen of Israel had settled in Ireland and had buried the Ark of the Covenant on the hill.

Sat, 07 May, 2005

Historical site has long history of controversy

WHAT have Maud Gonne, WB Yeats and the M3 motorway got in common? The answer lies deep within the hill of Tara, Ireland’s most revered archaeological site and the subject of a campaign to preserve this sacred place from the juggernaut of progress.

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