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  • National Budget Kite-Flying Festival 2011

    November 22, 2011 @ 1:09 pm | by Deaglán de Bréadún

    There are so many kites flying on the Budget that we could have a national festival. The child benefit issue has really taken off since it surfaced in the  Sunday papers. Meanwhile, Labour’s Willie Penrose had already quit his “super-junior” job over the closure of an Army barracks in Mullingar.

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  • Labour on the Cusp of Office?

    March 30, 2009 @ 11:06 am | by Deaglán de Bréadún

    An old editor of mine use to discourage us from writing stories about the Labour Party and the trades unions because he found them boring. But you couldn’t really dismiss  Labour as boring these days.

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     Eager young faces at the Labour conference (picture by Cyril Byrne) (more…)


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