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    • Notes on an Irish funny man

      DARA O Briain can remember being on the Dart in Dublin as a 14-year-old and having "to fake laughter while reading Woody Allen's anthology".

    • Clinton's crushing verdict

      There's red blood in the iron lady yet. Who can blame Hillary Clinton for gushing about her crush on British foreign secretary David Miliband? Not I. When she told an interviewer from Vogue, "If you saw him it would be a big crush. I mean, he is so vibrant, vital, attractive, smart. He's really a...

    • And you thought exams were scary

      Ambitious Glasnevin teen Sophie Vavasseur, -- tipped to be Ireland's next big thing -- has put her Leaving Cert studies aside for now to take on the lead role in the latest demonic-possession film, The Exorcismus.

    • Emotional Oprah quits talk show to start OWN television channel

      Oprah Winfrey will crown her position as one of America's most powerful media moguls by starting her own television channel after deciding to leave her top-rated US talk show.

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    Feelin' the pride

    News from across the pond

    • Age of entitlement

      PROSPECTS:Opportunities are no longer knocking for our best and brightest. So how are they coping with current economic woes in addition to the completely normal uncertainties of being twentysomething?

    • Fire Still Burning

      INTERVIEW:IT'S HARD NOT to approach an interview with John Irving with some trepidation having read his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River. The book's protagonist, Danny Angel, is a writer, like Irving, born in the early 1940s, like Irving, who studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, like Irving did, and who hates journalists, believing "most of them lacked the imagination to believe that anything credible in a novel had been wholly imagined".

    • The Tallaght Factor

      COMMUNITY:IT’S A FEW HOURS before the semi-final of Tallaght’s Got Talent and singer Aisling Connolly is getting nervous. “I think I’m getting the flu,” she says. “I’m not even practising today. This is the only talking I’m going to do all day!” Connolly is one of 12 performers, from singers to modern dancers, who will be taking to the stage that night in Captain Americas restaurant in Tallaght to participate in the weekly talent show that has been attracting southwest Dubliners of all ages since it launched more than a month ago.

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    Being there: Irish bloggers sound off

    • The Kingdom: Healy-Rae tells Lenihan it's time to spend money

      KERRY TD Jackie Healy-Rae has said it is time for the government to spend some money rather than seeking more ways to save it. The veteran South Kerry politician, whose unwavering loyalty to Fianna Fail has helped prop up the embattled …... Continue reading »

    • The Report, The Launch

      Deputy Timmy Dooley hit the nail on the head when we asked how we would feel if we woke up in the morning to find all of our banking system owned by (say) Libya. The Report was agreed. It will be sent to the Oireachtas Finance Committee …... Continue reading »

    • Breaking news | Twenty Major ? Still smoking in Dublin bars

      The financial regulator today said it did too little too late to cushion the blow of the global recession on Ireland. In other breaking news the Catholic Church admits it might have been a bit too rapey while Mary Harney admits she is …... Continue reading »

    • Welcome to Library.ie » Blog Archive » Beware the Jabberwock!

      Beware the Jabberwock! an exhibition of books on the animal kingdom in Marsh's Library was opened by Dr. Martin Mansergh, T.D., Minister of State, on Tuesday June 30 2009. The title comes from the nonsense poem about odd creatures in …... Continue reading »

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