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As a legend of diplomacy Henry Kissinger had a very deft way with words which left one thinking: What is he actually saying here?
For more than a decade, the Keene Family YMCA has been helping families in need buy gifts for Christmas. And this year, by paying $2 to wear jeans on Fridays,
The Black Thursday riots in Dublin city centre were the biggest flashpoint so far in the emergence of the far right in this country.
Austrians’ greatest trick, we are told, has been to convince the world that Adolf Hitler was German and the sublime Beethoven was Austrian. But we are reminded by an ongoing row about Hitler’s birthplace that the opposite was the case, though both men obviously had strong associations with both countries.
Ours is a country that doesn’t have a national independence day. Ireland got its first leg up the ladder of international respectability in the UN due to its inclusive ethos and sympathy for small nations.