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Ronnie Biggs is now set to die in jail.
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Lindy McDowell: Is there a risk Susan might go off Boyle?
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Singer and internet sensation Susan Boyle was in Belfast this week with the X
Factor tour. Onstage she sang the same two songs she sang during the
competition.
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Lindy McDowell: Jacko’s send-off will be in worst possible taste
Saturday, 4 July 2009
On the gates of Kensington Palace this week, Diana’s faithful fans had hung
new bunches of flowers in green plastic bottles and cards to mark what would
have been her 48th birthday on July 1. Handmade posters carried poems and
cut out photographs and pleas for a proper statue.
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Lindy McDowell: Omagh - the last precious tear of a dead daughter
Saturday, 4 July 2009
She was just 15. She had given up her Saturdays to work as a volunteer in the
local Oxfam shop. If ever there was an example of the innocence and goodness
of a terrorist victim compared to the hate-filled savagery of the monsters
who stole her life away it was Lorraine Wilson.
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So, are all the loyalist guns really gone?
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Having taken the guts of 15 years since they first announced their ceasefires
to reach the point of some sort of arms decommissioning, there’s almost a
poetic justice that the loyalist paramilitaries’ ‘historic’ announcements
were entirely overshadowed by the news of the death of Michael Jackson.
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Lindy McDowell: Why being an exec at the Beeb is a piece of cake
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Call this coincidence? In the same week that the BBC promises to cut down on
on-screen effing and blinding the corporation releases details of executive
expenses guaranteed to make a saint swear.
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Lindy McDowell: Farrah and Ryan, a real Hollywood love story
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Ryan O’Neal had what the gossip columns would call a tempestuous relationship
with Farrah Fawcett.
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Lindy McDowell: How Jacko gave his kids the childhood he never enjoyed
Saturday, 27 June 2009
It is, of course, the kids you feel for most. It always is. A few weeks back a
paparazzi hit pay dirt with pics of Michael Jackson’s two oldest children —
pics that were instantly beamed round the world.
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Lindy McDowell: Rania or shine, Sarah Brown has always proved a winner
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
In Number 10 she has entertained Carla Bruni, Michelle Obama and this week the
beautiful Queen Rania of Jordan.
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Lindy McDowell: PM won’t win Mr Popular vote
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
In an excoriating attack on the Government he believes failed his son, Graeme
Moore the father of one of the Iraq hostages says: “It is quite
extraordinary to think that the Prime Minister can make the time and effort
to telephone both Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, the two judges on Britain's
Got Talent, to check on the health of a TV show contestant.
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Lindy McDowell: Why our teens are putting their faith in internet instead of prayer
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. These days it’s
Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.
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Lindy McDowell: Is Esther Rantzen addicted to headlines?
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
It is a bit tricky to explain why, in a city just named as The Friendliest
Place in the Universe (or some such nonsense) hooded yoof would choose to
hurl stones at a tourist bus.
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Lindy McDowell: How the PSNI let Romanian attacks spiral out of control
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Northern Ireland — where we may not be so hot in community relations, but are
world leaders in making a crisis out of a drama. This week’s locally
produced headline for global consumption and revulsion ... Romanian families
(including new born baby) seek sanctuary in church after being forced from
their homes by racist thugs.
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Lindy McDowell: How Mandy did put his money on victory for Omagh families
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Don’t know what it says about this place but Gordon Brown’s new Cabinet
contains no less than three secretaries of state for Northern Ireland. One
current, two former.
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Omagh families took the law into their own hands and won
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
What happened in Belfast this week will reverberate around the world.
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Why the blame game? It could all still come to the Boyle...
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Susan Boyle — where did it all go wrong? No sooner had the world’s favourite
Scottish spinster been tucked up in her bed in The Priory this week, than
the massed legions of rent-a-quote experts, counsellors, psychiatrists and
psychologists were being trolleyed out to explain to us all how it had come
to this.
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Lindy McDowell: Why is society still pandering to the loyalist paramilitaries?
Saturday, 30 May 2009
Another week of horror in Northern Ireland, and the newspaper editorials and
airwaves have once again been reverberating with the age-old cry that we
must — we really must — do something about sectarianism.
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Why MPs need a reality check, not a blank one
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
I have a question: is anybody actually running the country these days?
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Lindy McDowell: How Joanna Lumley is leading the charge
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Some Ghurkhas say they regard Joanna Lumley as a goddess for spearheading the
campaign for their right to stay in the UK.
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Lindy McDowell: Why Caitriona lost marks over school trip row
Saturday, 23 May 2009
In common with many parents I completely, utterly understand why Caitriona
Ruane would choose to take her little girl with her during a recent official
trip to Cyprus.
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How UUP shot itself in foot over brigadier
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Two reports at the weekend gave us some insight into the New Force that is the
Ulster Unionist Party after its recent linkup with the Tories.
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U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
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5% |
| Pop |
1% |
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2% |
| Achtung Baby |
19% |
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8% |
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49% |
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