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Spotlight turns to Republicans
Amid the glamour of the Mile High Stadium Barack Obama removed some of the vagueness of his vision for change, but some Democrats worry not enough time was spent bashing John McCain ahead of next week's lower-key Republican convention
DAVID HAMMOND: DAVID HAMMOND, who has died in Belfast in his 80th year, was once described by Jeremy Isaacs as "a poet of film", but film was only one of the mediums in which he revelled: radio, voice, guitar, song - these were also his chosen instruments.
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TUARASCÁIL: Dúirt Ó Cuív go raibh sé "fíorshásta" leis an chinneadh agus gurbh "aitheantas é dár dteanga náisiúnta".

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