Clare Short
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Poems and pipes: Kavanagh commemorated thus beautifully
- Books
- November 30, 2017, 19:35
It was “a day for the long johns”, as one of the older men present said to his neighbour. Nevertheless, 50 years after Patrick Kavanagh’s death on Nov(...)

Author of controversial UN report to address Cork talk on Israel
- Social Affairs
- March 30, 2017, 15:02
The author of a controversial UN report which accused Israel of operating an apartheid-like regime towards Palestinians is among the speakers due to a(...)

Ex-MP George Galloway urges ‘Ire-exit’ EU referendum
- Irish News
- September 27, 2016, 17:29
Former British MP George Galloway has said he is in favour of an “Ire-exit” from the EU which should be put to a referendum. The left-wing politician(...)

Katie McCabe eager to grasp big opportunity at Arsenal
- International
- March 3, 2016, 01:00
She will, says one FAI official “rip it up in England”. Even if her energy and enthusiasm were the only things that Katie McCabe was bringing to Arse(...)
Rebkekah Brooks tells trial she sanctioned payments to officials
- UK
- February 27, 2014, 15:35
Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s former British newspaper boss, has told a London court she had sanctioned payments to public officials but de(...)

Benefits Street: the controversy rages on
- People
- February 10, 2014, 15:06
I landed back in my home city of Birmingham the day before the first episode of the now-notorious Benefits Street, aired on Channel 4. I didn’t watch (...)

I spy with my little eye something that looks like hypocrisy
- US
- October 31, 2013, 12:01
On Wednesday last week, German chancellor Angela Merkel telephoned Barack Obama and protested in reportedly robust terms against the hacking of her mo(...)