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'Granny D' Dead: Doris Haddock, Campaign Finance Reform Activist, Dies At 100

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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DUBLIN, N.H. (AP)-- A New Hampshire woman who was known as Granny D and walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign fina...

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Astoria Characters: The Proud Parader

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: County Kildare, Astoria, St. Patrick's College, Homosexual, Lesbian, 9/11, John McNeill, Tom Moulton, Mouse, Elephant, Gay Rights, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Irish Christian Brothers, Dublin, Brendan Fay, Aids, New York News, Robert Rygor, St. John's University, Lech Kaczynski, Pancakes, Mary Louis Academy, Mychal Judge, Act-Up, Angela's Ashes, Jamaica, Poland, St. Pat's for All Parade & Fair, David Dinkins, Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Maynooth, Athy, Drogheda, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

The famed Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade excludes gays and lesbians. Brendan Fay and his peers were allowed to march on Fifth Avenue only once -- in 1991.

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Christmas Closes Another Dark Year for the Catholic Church

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Brooklyn. Boston, Cardinal Law, Cardinal Egan, Bridgeport, Belfast, Christmas, Clerical Abuse. Sexual Abuse, Father Aidan Troy, Bishop DiMarzio, Ireland, Dublin, New York, Magdelene Sisters, Irish Catholicism, World News
Robert E. Murphy

As Christmas Week begins, The New York Times leads its Metropolitan section with another piece about sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. I can't complain, nor can I resist such articles.

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Top 3 Travel Spots: Tim Ferriss And Kevin Rose's Picks

Tim Ferriss | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Tim Ferriss, China, Kevin Rose, Dublin, Tokyo, Thailand, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Travel, Berlin, Video, Healthy Living News
Tim Ferriss

In this episode, we discuss our top 3 favorite travel spots. Details include favorite areas, seasons, things to look for and, occasionally, things to look out for...

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Slovak Man Takes Hidden Explosive On Dublin Flight

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Explosives, Airports, Slovakia, Slovakia Security, Airport Security, Dublin, World News

DUBLIN — A Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awr...

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Ford's Lucky Day Revisited

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dublin, Gerald Ford, Judge, Sara-Jane-Moore, Sarah Jane Kahn, West Virginia, Prison, Secret Service, Charleston, St Francis Hotel, Assassination, Attempt, Fbi, New Jersey, San Francisco, Samuel Conti, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Thirty-four years later, the Secret Service is still trying to understand the mind of that 45 year old woman, mother and doctor's wife who aimed and shot at Gerald Ford.

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Now Hear This (Interview): Time To Celebrate Imelda May Day

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Bialas

May is a genuine throwback, a sexy seductress who'll knock you out just as quickly with her dynamite voice as her sultry looks.

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Survey: Oslo Is Most Expensive City; New York Is Sixth

Posted 05.25.2011

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Oslo, Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva and Tokyo are more expensive than New York, according to a new study released Wednesday by UBS. The study analyzes...

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Ireland To Take 2 Guantanamo Inmates

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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DUBLIN — Ireland's agreement Wednesday to take two homeless Guantanamo prisoners demonstrates that patient diplomacy between the United States a...

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Dublin Cops Arrest 7 Over Record Irish Bank Heist

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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DUBLIN — Police recovered millions in stolen cash and interrogated seven suspected robbers Saturday, a day after a gang took a bank employee's f...

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Bono: Notes From The Chairman

Nytimes.com | Bono | Posted 05.25.2011

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Once upon a couple of weeks ago ... I'm in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year's. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelr...

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New Sex-Abuse Scandal Divides Irish Catholics

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fe...

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Bombs Away?

Steven Solomon and David Kaye | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dublin, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Bombs, Nato, European Union, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steven Solomon and David Kaye

A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle while preserving American flexibility to use cluster munitions in joint operations with allies that might join the treaty.

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The United States of Cluster Bombs

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Southern Lebanon, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Pakistan, Treaty, Banning, United States, International Committe of the Red Cross, China, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Israel, India, Dublin, Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Politics News
Steven Crandell

The treaty banning cluster munitions would not be seen as undermining "military utility" but instead as a prudent step to stop avoidable civilian deaths and injuries.

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U2 Planning To Build Ireland's Tallest Building

AFP | Andrew Bushe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ireland's top rock band U2 are hoping to make their mark on Dublin's skyline, but two property developments on the river Liffey waterfront are fueling...

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