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We love to fly...away from you.
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Road Safety Man
The story behind a man's drunken attack on Pat Kenny is out. He is Paul Stokes, from Monkstown, an 'inventor' of safety devices and life-saving gadgetry, who likes to write threatening emails, and to have booze. In fact, he'd done a bit of both before stumbling in to the audience of the Late Late, where his daughter Aoife is a researcher. He'd been ( Read more... ) -
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George paced in his office, little laps, adjusted the painting of Lincoln, then stood still, facing the window, following a speck of dust that floated around in a beam of late autumn afternoon light.
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Just in the door from six days in Rome, which mainly involved too many food and too much priests. Plus, hanging out with my dad and being Dutiful Daughter ( Read more... ) -
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A ridiculously happy birthday to glitzfrau! I would like to assure you that, despite the lyrics to the song I so sweetly crooned down the phone to you this morning, you possess neither the appearance nor the odour of any primate other than homo sapiens sapiens. It was merely 'poetic licence' what I was using.
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Mornin' all.
Iraqi Death TollSo 40,000 or 655,000 or, I dunno, eleven, this is what happens when war becomes part of daily life. The problem is, we can pick and choose our stats. Big fan of the war? Choose the 'optimistic' 40,000. Feel aggrieved with the Western world? We have this nice, slightly round -- but not too round -- 655,000 here for you ( Read more... ) -
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"Who let you in here?"
Apologies for those of you who are from or have loved ones from/in/near the place, but I was on a bus this morning, heading from UEA to the centre of Norwich. An elderly lady got on who looked a bit familiar, which I realised was not because I recognised her, but rather because she looked exactly like every other set-hair, flowered dress and ( Read more... ) -
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This article is too short to really make any kind of sweeping judgement, and it is with some hesitation that I do something other than shudder at the opinion of Kathy Sinnott, however, she does -- scarily -- occasionally have a good idea. She was absolutely right about the educational rights for her son, and she's sort of right here ( Read more... )