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Paul Rankin has told of his sadness that two of the outlets which bear his name are to close with the loss of dozens of jobs.
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- How dysfunctional families lead to the horror of the Baby P case
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- Irish Road rage driver mows down 13 cyclists
- Steward helps land jet after co-pilot has breakdown
- Police officer accused of running brothel
- Thousands in line for £200 payout
- The final pic of Baby P
- Father of missing Arlene Arkinson ‘died with a broken heart
- I'm a Celebrity: Could this be the best grub-fest yet?
- Baby P proves mother doesn’t always know best
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- Irish Road rage driver mows down 13 cyclists
- Steward helps land jet after co-pilot has breakdown
- Irish PM invites Obama to visit ancestral home
- The final pic of Baby P
- Man 'sawed off his own head'
- Disabled Glentoran fan taunted at game in Cork
- Al-Qa'ida chief: Obama is a house negro
- Just four Irish apply for 'Girls of Ryanair' calendar
- Woman gets organ grown from own stem cells
- Clubs blast IFA over Wells
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- How dysfunctional families lead to the horror of the Baby P case
- 51% majority not enough for Irish unity: Ahern
- Baby P proves mother doesn’t always know best
- Thousands in line for £200 payout
- The final pic of Baby P
- Irish Road rage driver mows down 13 cyclists
- I'm a Celebrity: Could this be the best grub-fest yet?
- Opinion: How the Provos 'sold out'
- Gerry missed ultimate insult
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Columnist Comments
• Eamonn McCann: Why isn’t Obama quizzing Bush over bail-out billions?
Sooner or later, the American people will see through Obama’s lack of transparency.
• Lindy McDowell: Why Stone’s ‘art’ wasn’t in the frame
In common with about 100% of the population I did not for a minute think that Michael Stone’s attack on Stormont was a work of performance art.
• Gail Walker: Why we don’t need Charles on Nolan show
Buoyed by an uplift in public support following his 60th birthday celebrations, Prince Charles is up to his old tricks again.
• Ed Curran: Dear Peter and Martin, have you no shame as people go to the wall?
Not long to go now before Stormont is on its holidays again. I refer to the 108 folks on the hill.
Columnist Comments
• Robert Fisk: Fear stalks the streets of Kandaha
There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue.
• Frances Burscough: Why I’m sure we’ll all have a funny turn this winter
There’s something funny going on in Belfast. In fact, it’s getting funnier by the week.
• Eric Waugh: Why a Tory election win could be a loss for Northern Ireland
The infighting in the Tory Party over the body of George Osborne may not strike many this side as of great domestic importance.
• Mark Steel: Losers who hate to love Obama
Oh they've all changed now. Suddenly they all like Obama, so even Republican spokesmen are saying things like: "This great and truly memorable moment shows what a wonderful country we are.
Columnist Comments
• Steven Beacom: Northern Ireland - frustrating,uninspiring and, frankly, depressing
Well, at least there were no World Cup points at stake.
• James Lawton: Memories of Thomson's valour live on at heart of Scottish game
Around the time Diego Maradona arrived in Glasgow about as amiably as a cornered wolverine – "I do not speak in English" he told a wildly optimistic radio man waving a mike over the heads of a police cordon – Scottish football was gathering in a large banqueting room to honour, with immense feeling and great dignity, the life of a rather different kind of footballer.
• Joe Kernan: Lower the prices GAA, that is just the ticket
To say that we are living in challenging financial times would be something of an understatement.
• David Healy: There’s little respect for referees
The FA’s Respect the Referees campaign has had plenty of publicity lately. And as far as I am concerned it is not working. Not at all.
Odd Box
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- Girl changes her name to 'Cutout Dissection.com'
- Monkey works as waiter
- Ban for viewing sci-fi film while driving truck
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- Politician and pilot spot UFO in Meath
- Dog rescues owner by calling police
- Police use Taser on nude man walking his dog
- Burglar attacks with sausage and spices
- Man with 86 wives vows to marry more
- Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move
- Spanish monarch replaced by Homer Simpson
- Pooh blocks drains in Ballymoney
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