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Archive | January, 2012

Mullan over a West Cork retreat

Caroline Mullan is the manager of the Mullan Gallery on the Lisburn Road, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last summer. Together with husband Robin the couple have been collecting art treasures for 27 years, their expanding hoard prompting them to turn their passion into a business.

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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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All-Ireland winner Blaney takes the reins at St Brigid’s

ST BRIGID’S will be able to avail of the expertise of a double All-Ireland winner as Greg Blaney has been appointed senior football manager for 2012.

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Scots independence ‘detrimental’

In Northern Ireland both Unionists and Nationalists are watching Scotland with great interest. The rise of the SNP and their desire for independence has the potential to embroil all four quarters of the United Kingdom in a constitutional conundrum.

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Buy Local message as crucial as ever

News this week that the retailers, Peacocks and Past Times are both under threat of closure after being placed into administration will come as no surprise to the small businesses also struggling to survive in these, the toughest economic conditions most of us can remember. 2012 has come in with all the vengeance which ended 2011 and noone can feel quite safe from the continuing economic ravages

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‘Respect’ shown if parades are banned believes LOCC

The chair of a local residents’ group opposed to loyalist parades in their community has said he does not believe the Parades Commission’s call for “respect” around marching will happen until parades are banned from the area.

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