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This morning in Dublin! Adams! Snodaigh! Doherty! Together they will bring a by-election to Donegal. But first, gentlemen, This is the High Court not a Summer school.

SF Challenge to be heard in October (breakingnews.ie)

Did you know? The acronym for the Dublin Dockland Development Authority is almost exactly like Beethoven’s Fifth symphony. DDD A. Could somebody please write a letter to The Irish Times pointing out this amusing similarity?


Pic from the Irish Times

He told The Irish Times that Ms White had asked him if he had “heard of a frontal lobotomy” and that he told her that he didn’t know what that was.

Irish Times

Perhaps The Telegraph. has a view?


MORE PEOPLE are leaving Ireland than anywhere else in the European Union, new research shows. Although Ireland has the EU’s highest birth rate and lowest death rate, people are abandoning the country in droves as work dries up.Figures compiled by Eurostat, the EU Commission’s statistical arm, show Ireland is markedly different from other countries in terms of population growth and outward migration. Overall, the population of the 27 EU countries is estimated to have grown to 501.1 million at the start of 2010 from 499.7 million in 2009. A baby boom in Ireland, which began in 2008, has brought the birth rate to levels not seen since the 1890s, but the departure of some 40,000 people last year points to the return of mass emigration.

Numbers Leaving Ireland At Double Rate Of Next Eu State (Irish Times)

Dated political theme. Unecessary farting jokes. TD only known to Newstalk listeners. And aren’t computer adaptions a bit old hat? Why do we give Nat King Coleslaw the airspace? Because he makes us laugh so.

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