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The English Premiership returns

Premier League "back by popular demand"   Dublin 9:00am There was a collective sigh of relief  as the Premier League returned to television screens across Ireland this weekend. Both men and lesbians were...
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Swine Who?

Sweary   Embittered hag that I am, I was not moved by the recent story that swine flu had claimed its first victim in Iraq.   “I’m sure,” scoffed I, “that the Iraqi people have more alarming dangers to...
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Burn Before Reading

Sweary   I knew I had to be prepared for visiting ye ould breeding grounds this week; County Galway can generate such cumbersome states of mind. Which is why I brought novels with me! Classics, indeed....
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Drunken Sailor stays the course

  Portsmouth, 9:00am Baby Alex "Drunken" Duncan Since the day he was born Alex Duncan had little choice but to be a sailor. His father was a sailor as was his grandfather and his grandfather before...