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Faith healer
Mitch Albom is the picture of American health. His skin glows, his dark-brown eyes twinkle and his thick thatch of black hair springs away from his scalp with uncontrollable vigour. All of this despite the fact that he is just off an overnight flight from his home in Detroit. His wife is still...
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Claws out for Jordan in jungle
The cat claws were fully extended this week in celebland. Glamour model Nicola McLean took the first swipe as she bad-mouthed Katie Price's I'm A Celeb antics in the jungle.
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Palin gives Levi a dressing down
Sarah Palin is not amused that the father of her grandchild Levi Johnston appears nude in this month's Playgirl magazine.
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at last, hollywood pays homage to its grand dame
Concerned about Oscar night's flagging TV ratings, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year decided to remove the awarding of its honorary Oscars from the main event in March in order to devote more time to showcasing the nominated films. So it was at a comparatively low-key event...
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Age of entitlement
PROSPECTS:Opportunities are no longer knocking for our best and brightest. So how are they coping with current economic woes in addition to the completely normal uncertainties of being twentysomething?
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Fire Still Burning
INTERVIEW:IT'S HARD NOT to approach an interview with John Irving with some trepidation having read his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River. The book's protagonist, Danny Angel, is a writer, like Irving, born in the early 1940s, like Irving, who studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, like Irving did, and who hates journalists, believing "most of them lacked the imagination to believe that anything credible in a novel had been wholly imagined".
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The Tallaght Factor
COMMUNITY:IT’S A FEW HOURS before the semi-final of Tallaght’s Got Talent and singer Aisling Connolly is getting nervous. “I think I’m getting the flu,” she says. “I’m not even practising today. This is the only talking I’m going to do all day!” Connolly is one of 12 performers, from singers to modern dancers, who will be taking to the stage that night in Captain Americas restaurant in Tallaght to participate in the weekly talent show that has been attracting southwest Dubliners of all ages since it launched more than a month ago.
Being there: Irish bloggers sound off
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The Kingdom: Healy-Rae tells Lenihan it's time to spend money
KERRY TD Jackie Healy-Rae has said it is time for the government to spend some money rather than seeking more ways to save it. The veteran South Kerry politician, whose unwavering loyalty to Fianna Fail has helped prop up the embattled …... Continue reading »
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The Report, The Launch
Deputy Timmy Dooley hit the nail on the head when we asked how we would feel if we woke up in the morning to find all of our banking system owned by (say) Libya. The Report was agreed. It will be sent to the Oireachtas Finance Committee …... Continue reading »
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Breaking news | Twenty Major ? Still smoking in Dublin bars
The financial regulator today said it did too little too late to cushion the blow of the global recession on Ireland. In other breaking news the Catholic Church admits it might have been a bit too rapey while Mary Harney admits she is …... Continue reading »
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Welcome to Library.ie » Blog Archive » Beware the Jabberwock!
Beware the Jabberwock! an exhibition of books on the animal kingdom in Marsh's Library was opened by Dr. Martin Mansergh, T.D., Minister of State, on Tuesday June 30 2009. The title comes from the nonsense poem about odd creatures in …... Continue reading »
No. 2: Lisa Hannigan
No. 3: Snow Patrol
No. 4: Bell X1
No. 5: Mark Geary