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Lowry has finished no worse than 35th in his nine starts this season.

Lowry has finished no worse than 35th in his nine starts this season.

A BLACKBURN racehorse owner hopes to have double cause for celebration this weekend – as he asks his hometown to get behind his Grand National…

The latest Irish and Irish American happenings in film and televisio 1.An all-star cast of Irish and international talent gathered in Dublin to shoot a gender-bending film written by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed authors. n Glenn Close stars alongside Irish thespians Brenda Fricker, Brendan Gleeson, Mary Doyle Kennedy and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in the film Albert Nobbs. Close, who wrote the movie along with Booker Prize winning author John Banville ( The Sea), plays the title character, a woman driven to transform herself into a man to get a job as a servant in the 1890’s. Suffice it to ...

The appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court last October brought to light two distinctly different friendships. One was between Barrett and a late Justice of the Court, Antonin Scalia, a fellow Catholic of serious belief and practice. Barrett was mentored by Scalia during her time as law clerk, and was strongly influenced by his legacy of constitutional interpretation. A more surprising friendship was that between Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a secular Jew, who died in September 2020 and whom Barrett succeeded on the Supreme Court. Their friendship rested on a deep...