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Athletics: Cragg hits flying form in New York
Monday March 22 2010
ALISTAIR Cragg ran the third fastest half-marathon time in Irish athletics history yesterday and promptly declared his intention to contest the 10,000m at the European Championships next summer.
Band Aid saved millions of lives
Wednesday March 10 2010
Weekend media reports, which claimed that large sums of money raised in the early 1980s by Bob Geldof's Band Aid were siphoned off to buy weapons in Ethiopia, have met with a furious response from the anti-poverty campaigner.
Heads must roll at BBC over Band Aid slur -- Geldof
Wednesday March 10 2010
Bob Geldof upped the ante in the row between Band Aid and the BBC yesterday by demanding the sacking of BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks.
Ethiopia's PM denies aid spent on weapons
Tuesday March 09 2010
THE prime minister of Ethiopia has stepped into the row between Bob Geldof and the BBC, which has claimed that 95pc of the $100m in aid raised by 'Live Aid' to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopia in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons.
Band Aid weapons claims 'nonsense'
Sunday March 07 2010
Claims that aid money sent to Ethiopia was spent on weapons are "palpable nonsense", Band Aid founder Sir Bob Geldof said.
Geldof to report the BBC over aid 'rumour'
Saturday March 06 2010
BOB Geldof and the Band Aid trust are to report the BBC to Britain's broadcasting regulator Ofcom over a World Service report that claimed millions of pounds raised for famine victims in Ethiopia in 1985 were actually spent on weapons.
Critics' guide to going out: 05/03/2010
Friday March 05 2010
Literary Death Match, The Sugar Club, Dublin 2
Geldof furious at claims Live Aid cash helped fund Ethiopian rebels
Thursday March 04 2010
BOB Geldof reacted angrily yesterday to claims broadcast on the BBC that millions of dollars raised by Live Aid were diverted to Ethiopian rebels.
Powerful images of women in poorest places
Thursday March 04 2010
THEY are powerful images of impoverished women in the world's poorest places, seen through the eyes of Ireland's top female photographers.
