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Archive | November, 2015

Frampton-Quigg go head-to-head in angry war of words at Europa

Pantomime season was in full swing at the Europa Hotel yesterday as Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg concluded their three-day press tour ahead of their unification fight in Manchester on February 27. The Grand Ballroom in the hotel was packed to capacity long before Eddie Hearn entered with Scott Quigg and trainer Joe Gallagher in […]

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Linfield fans taunt massacre dead with sick insult to Para victims

THE brother of a teenager shot and killed during the 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre says he’s disgusted by an insult to victims of the Parachute Regiment flaunted by Linfield supporters at Windsor Park. Pat Quinn attended Saturday’s crunch Linfield v Cliftonville game at Windsor where a flag was flown displaying a Para crest and a union […]

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Frampton-Quigg go head-to-head in angry war of words at Europa

Pantomime season was in full swing at the Europa Hotel yesterday as Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg concluded their three-day press tour ahead of their unification fight in Manchester on February 27. The Grand Ballroom in the hotel was packed to capacity long before Eddie Hearn entered with Scott Quigg and trainer Joe Gallagher in […]

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Linfield fans taunt massacre dead with sick insult to Para victims

THE brother of a teenager shot and killed during the 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre says he’s disgusted by an insult to victims of the Parachute Regiment flaunted by Linfield supporters at Windsor Park. Pat Quinn attended Saturday’s crunch Linfield v Cliftonville game at Windsor where a flag was flown displaying a Para crest and a union […]

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New visa rules likely to mean a massive drop in Irish students working in the United States

You’ll meet them, often during summer vacations by the shore: young Irish students serving you lunch, or a drink at sundown. Now it looks like the sun is setting on many such encounters. New rules for summer J-1 student visas mean that beginning in 2016 Irish students (and students from other countries in the U.S. […]

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Special sitting of Assembly today to clear the way for hand-over of welfare reform power to London

The Stormont Assembly will convene later today in for a special session designed to clear the way for power over welfare reform to be handed to London. DUP Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey will put a legislative consent motion before MLAs that effectively transfers powers over welfare reform from the Assembly to the British government, […]

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