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Sat 08 Aug 2009Clinton saga highlights ludicrous notions about importance of Ireland to America
HILLARY CLINTON will not, after all, be the White House’s special envoy to Northern Ireland. The story of the US secretary of state’s imminent appointment of herself to that role proved, like so much else that emanates from Irish America, to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors, writes NIALL STANAGE
The flurry of speculation about Clinton’s possible new title was set off by an unsourced article on an expatriate website. It was then picked up and propagated by large swathes of the Irish media. Their credulity did the public no favours.
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