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- A 30 year-old Galway man has been found not guilty of the murder of his cousin at the Central Criminal Court today. |
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- Sir Brian Kerr was today appointed as Northern Ireland's next Lord Chief Justice. |
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- Unicef Ireland has called on governments and development agencies throughout the world to do more to help underprivileged children. |
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- A jury in the trial of a Galway traveller accused of the murder of his cousin and of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life retired to begin their deliberations this morning. |
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- Former President Mary Robinson has severely criticised the Irish work permit system in a speech to a conference in Dublin. |
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- There's an interesting article on Entrepreneur.com (titled Fear Factor, by Romanus Wolter) about overcoming your fear of starting a business. Most of what it has to say could be applied to the idea of pursuing your passion in general, not... |
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- And Now, Your Moment of Zen File under Zen. |
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- A leaked document from British private rail companies has confirmed that the National Rail Inquiries Service is shifting to India as part of the call centres relocation process. |
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- The Canadian Tourism Commission recently announced that the 2004 Canada-Japan Tourism Conference, to be held in May 2004, has been awarded to the province of Alberta. The Canada-Japan Tourism Conference, first held in 1993, is an important occasion for Canada and Japan to share knowledge and travel practices as well as to develop a closer working relationship with senior Japanese government and industry executives. (CCNMatthews - December 11) |
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- Essa eu vi em um fórum, um alerta para segurança em caixas automáticos: cuidado, se você vir algo parecido em algum banco não coloque seu dinheiro! ps. cada vez mais cômico :-) |
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- Habe wieder diese Vorstellungen, wie ich einem anderen Ich meine Welt erkläre, einem Ich aus einer parallelen Wirklichkeit vielleicht, einem Ich, das an einer dieser zahllosen Gabelungen meines Lebens eine andere Richtung eingeschlagen hat. Ich sage dann: Hey, das hier, das ist der Wäschekorb, den ich dann doch gekauft habe. |
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- This is a table about U.S. Daily Average Feeder Cattle Prices |
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- "You were pretty good at keeping us informed through the course weblog and Studentportalen, and when you forgot, we just went to your blog and read what we were going to be doing there." "Yeah, that was like an out-of-body... |
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- Two weeks ago, Jan Mackenzie, a search-engine expert and president of The National SE-club approached us with interesting news about Googles’ Adwords Program. Up to date Mr. Mackenzie was able to collect more than 3000 complaints from Google advertisers which, according to the expert will soon result in a 30-million-claim against Google. |
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- Den brittiska resekoncernen My Travel - som bland annat äger svenska Ving och Always - redovisar en gigantisk förlust på motsvarande 11,5 miljarder kronor. |
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- Männen har drabbats mest när det gäller den ökande arbetslösheten. Det visar ny statistik från Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB. |
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- EG-domstolen underkänner Astra Zenecas argument i ett fall som gäller varaktigheten hos patentskyddet för omeprazol, den aktiva substansen i magsårsmedicinen Losec, skriver Astra Zeneca i ett pressmeddelande. |
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- Regeringen ska tillsätta en utredning för att få reda på vad avregleringarna på tele-, el-, post-, inrikesflyg-, taxi- och järnvägsmarknaderna haft för konsekvenser. |
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- Riksgäldskontoret har beräknat statslåneräntan till 4,69 procent. Det är 0,10 procentenheter lägre än föregående vecka. |
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- Blogging for Dollars reports on Matt's efforts to start a new blog and his amazing results. I added adsense banners to my site (up top a ways) back in September, and I've done a decent bit of business - but... |
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- Na folha de São Paulo de hoje: Soldados norte-americanos procuram minas terrestres perto de Ramadi, no Iraque Pra mim o cara tava contando uma piada pros amigos, ou então imitando uma dança egípcia, com aquela musiquinha que passa nos desenhos quando tem uma dança egípcia: taran ran ran ran (entenderam?) |
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- Det er et rigtigt arbejdsgiverår næste år. |
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- Biler skal synes af private. |
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- 5.500 betjente deltog i morges i en landsdækkende razzia i Tyskland, hvor over ét tusind lejligheder blev ransaget. |
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- Danskerne smider årligt op mod 30 millioner kroner ud af vinduet, når de køber luftfriskere. |
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- Finansmanden Kurt Thorsen er blevet fritaget for strafafsoning i yderligere halvanden måned og kommer ikke tilbage til fængslet før 31. januar næste år. |
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- En fransk ekspertkommission er på vej med en længe ventet rapport om muslimske tørklæder.Ekspertkommissionen anbefaler, at iøjnefaldende religiøse tegn og udtryksformer bliver forbudt i offentlige skoler. |
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- Variety reported that Law & Order producer/mastermind maven Dick Wolf was injured over the weekend, after being hit by an SUV! While Wolf is doing fine, he had to miss a dinner and issued this statement: "I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have emerged from a face-to-face confrontation with an SUV (not SVU) with only minor injuries. All I can say to adults is don't jaywalk and teach your children to cross on the green." Dude. |
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- How do you call somebody who does not believe in Santa Claus?A rebel without Clause |
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- The boycott tactic is a disaster and the sectarianism toward SIPTU workers is too This is a specific response to “Colombian Union Replies to Coca Cola” by Gearoid O Loingsigh - Lasc Friday, Dec 5 2003, 9:41a.” It is also an attempt to make some general arguments. I am submitting it here because the issue of the wisdom of the boycott coke tactic has only been addressed in reaction to the series of postings that have pushed the boycott further or that have sought to unnecessarily slander the position of Irish Coca Cola workers. ... |
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- Scandinavian airline SAS is to open new routes from Stockholm to Ireland and Scotland in March. |
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- Hostelworld.com is to provide Ryanair passengers with an online reservations facility. Through its website, Ryanair.com, customers will now have access to over 3,000 hostels throughout Europe. |
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- Independent News and Media has sold 23 of its London regional newspaper operations to Archant Regional Limited for £62.0m (E88.7m). |
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- Weil er seine Frau Whitney Houston geschlagen haben soll, ist der Sänger Bobby Brown der Körperverletzung beschuldigt worden. Der 34-Jährige stellte sich nach Angaben eines Polizeisprechers am Mittwoch, drei Tage nach dem von der Pop-Diva angezeigten Vorfall, den Behörden.... |
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- GloFish Praised As Pioneering Genetics (AP). AP - The Singaporean creator of a new breed of glowing fish said Wednesday he hopes the creatures, which were approved this week for sale in the United States, will help reduce fears over genetically modified products. [Yahoo! News - Science] |
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