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Source: Mail Online UK
Dublin : Ireland | 1 year ago  
13 March 2012 Sportswear giant Nike has been blasted for naming a new $90 'beer-themed' trainer after a notorious British paramilitary unit sent to Ireland to suppress revolt in the...
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