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Eoghan Harris: Haiti shows where aid ranks in order of things

Eoghan Harris Sunday January 24 2010

HAITI hammers home an old lesson. Order is the rock on which human society rests. Without order, the strong eat and the weak starve. Hence Haiti needs a strong governing group as much as it needs food.

Members of the US air force patrol downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday. Critics charge the US with 'taking over' in Haiti, running airports and directing traffic

Stars and gripes -- why America can't get a break

Tuesday January 19 2010

THE Americans running the aid effort for Haiti must feel like Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe closing the schools recently because of the snow. He was criticised for not doing so soon enough, and then when the weather forecasts turned out to be wrong he was criticised for closing them for too long. You just can't win.

City tell Adebayor to take extended leave from club

Sunday January 10 2010

It was grimly predictable. No sooner had the first reports of the shooting in Cabinda begun to filter through than South Africa's ability to host a safe World Cup was called into question. What a laughable leap of logic, what reactionary racist rubbish.

Cowen under hail of criticism for emergency response delay

Friday January 08 2010

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen was at the centre of a political storm last night after the Government was accused of "failing abysmally" to respond to the weather crisis.

Finland shooter chose who to target in attack

Sunday January 03 2010

THE attacker who killed his ex-girlfriend and four other people during a shooting rampage in Finland on New Year's Eve apparently chose his victims and did not fire at random, police said.

US senator attacks Knox trial as 'anti-American'

Monday December 07 2009

HILLARY Clinton said last night that she would meet a US senator to discuss claims that Amanda Knox was the victim of a flawed trial and anti-Americanism.

O'Dea's modest bill of €8,000 for 10 foreign trips

Saturday November 21 2009

THERE are Government ministers who needlessly fritter away thousands of euro while representing the country abroad -- and then there's Willie O'Dea.