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Archive | January, 2012

The rough and tumble

What’s the story?

A knuckle-headed bouncer with a talent for physically hurting people, Doug (Seann William Scott) isn’t exactly the brightest chap in the world, much to the dismay of his intelligent and cultured father (Eugene Levy). But, if they handed out doctorates for violence, there’s no doubt that Doug would graduate with a distinction.

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Making sense of that Boston College mess

So – what do you make of this Boston tapes thing, eh? You know the project: journalist Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre got together and arranged interviews with a number of former republican and loyalist combatants in our Troubles.

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On the trail of the Rosetta Stone in NY

Chris Cahill, Director of the American Irish Historical Society – which boasts palatial headquarters on New York’s most exclusive stretch of real estate, Park Avenue – reckons that the person who cracks the way to link the Scots-Irish diaspora and the Irish American diaspora will have found the Rosetta Stone.

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Ulster on brink of successive Heineken Cup quarter-final berth

THE equation is simple for Ulster. Avoid defeat at Clermont and they will reach the quarter- final of the Heineken Cup for a second consecutive season.

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Locals’ shock at latest hijacking

Residents on the Lisburn Road have described their shock after the latest in a series of hijackings and attempted hijackings across Belfast took place in their street this week. On Monday (January 16) a woman was approached by a male as she got into her car in Ashley Drive off Ashley Avenue around 5.15pm. The […]

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Happy visions of a much loved son

Mary Enright and her husband Terry are cheerful people. When I visit them, Mary chats about the weather, Terry has a little laugh at how different my head looks when I take my cap off.

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