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YOUR political editor Harry McGee astutely identified Fianna Fáil’s marriage difficulties in relation to Sinn Féin (Irish Examiner, June 19).

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There’s a limit to these know-all passports

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Cullen knows how to read the smoke signals

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Guns are OK in Ireland but not in America

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None of them owns the moral high ground

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Our regular correspondent proves he exists

I AM curious to know about Richard Dowling of Mountrath in Co Laois.

Fri, 13 Dec, 2002

YOU have to feel sorry for the GAA.

So principled, and all that. Croke Park is the home of the national game, not the national interest.

Sat, 21 Sep, 2002

Howlin’s political shocker

WHEN it comes to sexual orientation, the Irish are like the English – stiff upper lip and all that.

Thu, 19 Sep, 2002

Organ retention without consent

REGARDING organ retention, the medical technicians were too shy to appear on Brenda Power’s show, RTÉ Radio 1, August 28. Though obviously clinically detached in their professional work, they were reluctant to have their own actions and motives dissected in a similar fashion.

Mon, 02 Sep, 2002

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