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Dunbar must surpass field of champions in Easter hunt for 'West' prize
Laytown :: Ireland | 1 year ago
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Friday April 06 2012 THE west was awake this week with a mixture of sunshine, rain, wind, hailstones and even flurries of snow -- in short, traditional Easter weather for the competitors in the Radisson Blu Hotel West of Ireland championship, which
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Playwright Arden Dead At 81
Galway :: Ireland | 1 year ago
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The playwright first broke into the theatre mainstream in 1956 with his radio play The Life of Man but he later gained widespread recognition for war story Serjeant Musgrave's Dance , which premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre. He then wrote the
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Winning Ireland's amateur 'Majors' can provide gateway to professional ranks
Dublin :: Ireland | 1 year ago
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S amateur 'Majors' offer a gateway to wealth, fame, and professional Major titles -- that's the conclusion to be drawn from the experience of our main Tour players. And it's a big endorsement of the GUI championship series, which opens with the
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Interesting days for Dunbar in final amateur season
Ballymena :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Sunday March 18 2012 Sotogrande the starting point of a landmark season for Alan Dunbar, writes Dermot Gilleece As a sharp reflection of these golfing times, Ireland 's quartet for this week's European National Team Championship at Sotogrande is
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The Guard's John Michael McDonagh on success, roadkill and good priests
Dublin :: Ireland | over 1 year ago
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Rex December before last, it was snowy and rainy in the rural west of Ireland. John Michael McDonagh, older brother of playwright Martin , was visiting family and out cycling, having had his directorial debut accepted by the Sundance Film Festival
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McILROY and CLARKE share top accolade at writers' awards
Dublin :: Ireland | over 1 year ago
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McIlroy, the US Open champion, and Darren Clarke, the British Open champion, have been jointly voted Professional of the Year in the AIB Irish Golf Writers' Awards for 2011. McIlroy (22) won the US Open in record-breaking fashion at Congressional
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The Irish are coming back to Liverpool
Dublin :: Ireland | over 1 year ago
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Liverpool has a long history of connections with Ireland , and has frequently been dubbed the country's 'real capital'. During the Celtic Tiger years, the flow of Irish to the city greatly declined, but of late, they have started to return. Republic
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Ireland's free zone encourages Chinese investment
Dublin :: Ireland | over 1 year ago
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Ireland, which waded through four years of economic recession, greatly valued foreign direct investment and it hoped to see more Chinese investment, said an official of a business park outside Dublin. "We would very much welcome Chinese companies
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The riotous history of The Playboy of the Western World
Wicklow :: Ireland | over 1 year ago
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Declan Kiberd What a carry-on in rehearsal for The Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic, London. Photograph: Manuel Harlan ' Whenever a country produces a man of genius," said WB Yeats of his friend John Millington Synge , "that man is never
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Travellers' real homes are back in Ireland and they will NOT be 'homeless nomads' if they are evicted
Basildon :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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The travellers told Britain's highest ranking planning inspector that if evicted, sick children and immobile old people would be forced to endure makeshift roadside camps. But what the volumes of applications and appeal papers did not make clear was
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