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Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Several prestigious domestic and European job vacancies will be filled in the coming weeks. In Europe, the EU is set to get its first president and Ireland will appoint Charlie McCreevy's successor to the European Commission. At home, two people will be elected to the Seanad, and there may even be a vacant position on the European Court of Auditors in Luxemburg. So where are the vacancies, who are...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Why not? A native English-speaker who has been in Washington for a while, but from a country which is in the Eurozone and wasn't in the Iraq War. The two main Irish parties are notoriously difficult to place on any normal ideological spectrum, but "Christian Democrat" is not a bad description of either, and perhaps especially of Fine Gael. Within that, Bruton has a proven record of being...
A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Irish newspapers are very well written, providing pleasure as well as information. A line from today's The Irish Times tells us that "England is the only country in the world that would welcome news of the longest life expectancy in human history with the headline 'Pensions Timebomb'. "I'll share with you some of the stories that have caught my eye. The biggest story concerns an attempt by...
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