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Favourite for EU role urged to clear up Ganley link

Tuesday November 17 2009

IRELAND'S anticipated new European Commissioner was urged last night to clarify her past business relationship with Lisbon 'No' campaigner Declan Ganley.

MacSharry to Lenihan: 'Be ready for hatred'

Sunday November 15 2009

Former finance minister Ray MacSharry has warned Brian Lenihan that he should prepare to be the "most hated man in Ireland" after the Budget next month -- a description which was applied to Mr MacSharry for years: "But I survived".

Macca takes campaign to Brussels

Friday November 13 2009

Sir Paul McCartney is to take his "meat-free" campaign to Brussels next month as part of a European Parliament conference on the environment.

Vivid images of 1989 stress importance of united Europe

Monday November 09 2009

Today is a day for celebrating the great changes set in train by the people of Berlin and in other parts of Eastern Europe in the winter of 1989

Geraghty's des res and the house Jack 'built'

Sunday November 08 2009

'I BUILT my house in 1988. How is it a 'trophy house'? I don't want this crap coming at me!" It was Pat Kenny, but certainly not as we have known him at any time during all his years at RTE. Deadly serious and deadly boring are just two of the ways most people would describe Pat -- a science graduate who looks like an accountant and speaks as carefully as a lawyer, but chooses instead to make a rather handsome living from broadcasting.

Abuse campaigner gets award from President

Friday November 06 2009

OUTSPOKEN abuse campaigner Christine Buckley was honoured by President Mary McAleese last night after being named Ireland's Volunteer of the Year.

Internet myths are debunked at the peak of the Web Summit

Thursday November 05 2009

AT last week's Dublin Web Summit, organised by Paddy Cosgrave, more than 150 people trooped into Bewley's Hotel in Ballsbridge to listen to some of the most influential online Europeans talk about the impact of the internet on business, politics and media.

Three wise, old statesmen leave Thatcher out in cold

Monday November 02 2009

Three greying men, one in a wheelchair, one leaning on a stick, shuffled on to a theatre stage normally occupied by high-kicking chorus girls to discuss old times -- the good old days when the Berlin Wall came down and they were in charge of the world.