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  • Elderly cyclist killed in collision with car Elderly cyclist killed in collision with car

    A man in his 80s has been killed in a road traffic accident in Co. Kildare. The man was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a car on the Dublin Road at Clane on Sunday afternoon. The driver of the car, reportedly in his twenties, attended Naas Garda Station for questioning but left the station on Sunday night without any charges being laid. A post-mortem is expected to be carried out on ...

  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Kevin OBrien says no specific plans against Pak spinner Saeed Ajmal

    Irish all-rounder Kevin O'Brien, whose team will face Pakistan in the upcoming two ODI series at home, has said that Saeed Ajmal is a "tricky customer" as well as "one of the best spinners in the world", but have admitted that they have no specific plans on how to tackle Ajmal in the upcoming matches. The 29 year-old, who was also part of the side that knocked Pakistan out of the 2007 World Cup ...

  • Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal

    WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...

  • Almost 1m pay local property tax

    The Revenue Commissioners are encouraging those who have yet to pay to file as soon as possible by logging on to revenue.ie, where their property ID number and PIN will be ...


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Séance on a Wet Afternoon [DVD]

Séance on a Wet Afternoon [DVD]

Bryan Forbes Sance on a Wet Afternoon is about a mentally unhinged woman who is so convinced she is a medium that she feels the need to construct an elaborate scheme to prove it to others, even though this scheme involves her faking the very powers of which she genuinely believes herself to be in possession. Of course, this is an irreconcilable paradoxafter all, if she is really a medium, ... ...

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  • Government to tackle hospital waiting lists with €18m ‘intervention’ teams

    The Department of Health yesterday announced plans for expert groups to carry out "interventions" in five hospitals around the country after figures were published showing significant leaps in patients' waiting times since the beginning of the ...

  • Former Labour TD to stand in for press secretary

    Ms Madden, a former 98fm and Newstalk journalist, was appointed deputy government press secretary on the nomination of Labour in April 2011, having previously worked for the party in a media advisory ...

  • Banks’ pay savings proposals examined

    He said it was not possible at this stage to reveal precise details of the savings, from 6 to 10 per cent, bar what had been put in the public ...

  • The paradox of a running legend

    If doctors ever get to dissect Jim McNamara's heart, they may discover that, like that of many great athletes, it's unusually large. But it would be no surprise if they also find a mysterious black stripe running across it, ...

  • Revised proposals more than ‘tweaks’ to rejected deal

    The revised Croke Park II proposals do not just represent a "tweaking" of the deal rejected last month. Neither are they a whole new blueprint for reducing the State's paybill drawn up on a blank sheet of ...

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