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Swansong set for northwest debut
Fri. 3/9/10
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In further regional distribution news, we learn that Swansong: The Story of Occi Byrne, the debut feature from Sligo’s Conor McDermottroe, is to play throughout the northwest in Cinema North West’s 100-seater Cinemobile
Full Report:
Irish Times
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Ahern accused of using kidnap to float ATM charges
Fri. 3/9/10
JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has been accused of using the kidnap trauma of a bank official and his wife to float the possibility of introducing ATM charges
Full Report:
Irish Examiner
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Pakistan's rich 'diverted floods to save their land'
Fri. 3/9/10
A senior Pakistan diplomat has accused "powerful" figures of diverting floodwaters into unprotected areas to save their own land
Full Report:
Independent UK
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Kevin Myers: Uganda's long-serving president is building one of Africa's best air forces; we're helping him pay
Fri. 3/9/10
Yoweri Museveni
As President Yoweri Museveni embarks on his next term in office, how it is possible that we are giving his regime about €44m a year, even as he is buying seven Sukhoi 30 fighters from Russia?
Full Report:
Irish Independent
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Modern Family star Sofia Vergara tends to her boyfriend in hospital as he recovers from car accident
Fri. 3/9/10
Modern Family star Sofia Vergara has posted a photo of her boyfriend on Twitter following a six hour surgery on his broken leg
Full Report:
Daily Mail
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Ditto wants to have a baby
Fri. 3/9/10
The 29-year-old 'Gossip' singer Beth Ditto broke up with her long-term partner Freddie after nine years together in January
Full Report:
BreakingNews.ie
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Juliette Binoche: The sexy French star who said 'Non merci' when Bill Clinton and Francois Mitterand tried to woo her
Fri. 3/9/10
Juliette Binoche is the most glamorous, the highest paid and the best-loved actress in France. She is so revered that newspapers now simply refer to her by her surname
Full Report:
Daily Mail
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Aer Arann troubles will not affect Sligo flights
Thur. 2/9/10
According to airport manager Joe Corcoran the present position means that as a trading company the airline can continue with their day-to-day business in a normal way
Full Report:
Sligo Weekender
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EA Sports Cup final set for the Showgrounds
Thur. 2/9/10
This season's EA Sports Cup final will take place at the Showgrounds in Sligo on Saturday, 25 September
Full Report:
RTE Sport
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Senior Catholic blames UK's 'moral wasteland' on 'gay agenda' and commercialisation of sex
Thur. 2/9/10
Vincent Nichols
A leading adviser to the Archbishop of Westminster has blamed abortion and gay rights for turning Britain into a "selfish, hedonistic wasteland" which has become "the geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death"
Full Report:
Belfast Telegraph
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Kevin Myers: 'Our society must stop celebrating lives of reckless car-crash teens'
Thur. 2/9/10
It is simply wrong to treat the death of a teenager who dies out of voluntary recklessness with the same ceremonials of grief as those for the victim of leukaemia
Full Report:
Irish Independent
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Hawking: God didn't create the universe
Thur. 2/9/10
The universe was not created by God, scientist Stephen Hawking has said in his new book.
Professor Hawking believes the laws of physics were behind the Big Bang instead, in a challenge to traditional religious beliefs
Full Report:
BreakingNews.ie
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She's respectable and intelligent ... so why does Sarah attach a painful barbed chain to her leg for two hours a day?
Thur. 2/9/10
Opus Dei member Sarah is 'atoning for her sins' But what sins?
Full Report:
Daily Mail
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Take a look at Mutya's Butt-ya
Thur. 2/9/10
The former SUGABABE Mutya Buena shows off the bum that she reportedly spent £6,000 improving
Full Report:
The Sun
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Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks on life as the world’s sexiest woman
Thur. 2/9/10
The voluptuous star of hit US TV series Mad Men has found herself unwittingly spearheading a campaign for curvier women
Full Report:
The Mirror
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Pussycat Doll welcomes new group additions
Thur. 2/9/10
Nicole Scherzinger thinks everyone is a Pussycat Doll
Full Report:
BreakingNews.ie
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Bar Refaeli: 'Skinny models make me sad'
Thur. 2/9/10
Bar Refaeli has revealed that seeing "skinny models" makes her "so sad"
Full Report:
Digital Spy
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Sligo General puts pressure on sick boy to go home
Tue. 31/8/10
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A TEENAGE boy who has collapsed three times since July because of bleeding on his brain is desperately trying to hold on to a hospital bed while he awaits a vital operation
Full Report:
Irish Independent
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Union Warns Beds will Close at Mayo and Sligo General Hospitals From Tomorrow Due to Staff Shortages
Tue. 31/8/10
Nursing leaders have told the Health Service Executive management in the West that beds in the hospitals in Mayo & Sligo will have to be closed from tomorrow as a result of reductions in staffing levels
Full Report:
MidWest Radio
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Pharmacists call for 'morning-after pill' to be available over the counter
Tue. 31/8/10
At present, women who wish to take emergency hormonal contraception require a prescription from a doctor or go to a Northern Ireland pharmacy
Full Report:
BreakingNews.ie
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Kevin Myers: Wind power will return us to the early Middle Ages
Tue. 31/8/10
If we'd depended on wind technology to stay warm last winter, we'd have all perished in the coldest spell in 150 years, during which there was more wind on the moon than here in Ireland
Full Report:
Irish Independent
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Gold: is it really a safe haven?
Tue. 31/8/10
The price of the precious metal has soared, but it's not a straightforward investment
Full Report:
The Telegraph
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Cheeky Gail Porter recreates infamous naked FHM pose to mark her 40th birthday
Tue. 31/8/10
Gail Porter has recreated the naked pose which catapulted her to stardom 11 years ago
Full Report:
Daily Mail
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Tara Moss announces pregnancy
Tue. 31/8/10
The Australian model, television presenter and crime novelist announced on Twitter that she and her poet husband Berndt Sellheim are "thrilled" at the prospect of becoming parents for the first time
Full Report:
Digital Spy
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