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Eric Waugh

So, are these the people we are really voting for on Thursday?

Voting on Thursday? No? Please excuse me. Sorry to have troubled . . . Oh, you are? . . . Really? . . . So you support the Lisbon Treaty? . . . Yes, I see . . . Indeed.
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Inside Eric Waugh

Sins of the fathers are still haunting Catholic Church

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Tomorrow the social earthquake unloosed within the Republic in the early 1990s reaches its crescendo when newspapers, television and radio south of the border will be dominated by the first findings of the Government's 3,000-page, five-volume investigation into child abuse by up to 500 priests.
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Why MPs’ expenses have given Gordon and David a lot to ponder

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Only the most rabid cynic can profess to be other than shocked at the disclosures revealing how MPs and peers have been lining their pockets at the taxpayer's expense.
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Sinn Fein may be laughing when the Euro votes are counted

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Much midnight oil is being burned by party strategists on the unionist side over next month's European elections because they know the unionist vote is going to be split three ways.
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One MLA for every 16,000 of us? We have let too many in already

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

When a nation is on its uppers, all must be seen to be doing their bit.
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Why we should be ashamed of bigoted attacks on immigrants

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

On the night in question she hid under the kitchen table. The gang of thugs had broken in.
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Gordon and his spin doctors have fuelled more public anger

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

The son-of-the-manse aura of sanctity which some sensed around Gordon Brown was never apparent to me.
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How EU regulations have left our fishermen in deep water

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Two Co Down fishermen are imprisoned in Walton jail in Liverpool. Their crime?
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How job losses at Shorts are grim reflection of hard times

Friday, 3 April 2009

The scale of the job losses announced by Shorts — close to 1,000 — confirms starkly the extent of the downturn the Northern Ireland community now faces.
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Could Gordon’s plans for royals lead to a dis-United Kingdom?

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Various theories are abroad as to why, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in 80 years, the Prime Minister has chosen to launch himself on the reef-strewn shoals of religion, Catholics and the Crown.
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Ireland today must have St Patrick turning in his grave

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

The next time you are in Dublin and passing the Royal Dublin Society along Merrion Road, take a glance at the substantial lamp standards which you see at intervals along the kerb.
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How those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

We learn from history that men and women never learn anything from history.
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Those paying lip service to Union don’t speak from the heart

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

We were at our very best on Friday evening; on Saturday evening we were at our worst.
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How UK always plays second fiddle as America calls the tune

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

There will be much humbug talked and written this week while the Prime Minister is in Washington.
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Is anyone really interested in Sinn Fein’s call for Irish unity?

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

The realists in the propaganda game always argue that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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How can Christians have faith in PC officialdom that ignores them?

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Some time ago the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin told a curious inquirer that, yes, it was indeed true that there were plans to build new lavatories in one of their buildings which would have a deliberate peculiarity.
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New stadium at Maze never had a sporting chance

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

To some the Maze was the obvious site for a sports stadium.
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These cash payments don’t take account of the pain of the victims

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Colm McCallan, a Belfast Catholic, was aged 25 when he died; but he was still a student, though married with a child.
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As we can tell Obama, it won’t be an easy task healing division

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

You know how the world regards Northern Ireland now. Bombs were yesterday. Paisley and the IRA have faded.
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Why must traditional families be less well off than single mums?

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

The Prime Minister has made his peace with |another big fish in the Labour pond.
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The Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and why so few can lecture the Israelis

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

One cannot generalise, but it is a fact that there is a tendency for the loyalist-Protestant-unionist interest in Northern Ireland to side with the Jewish Israelis in the endless conflict in the Middle East.
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