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Green shoots in the economy

THE NEWS that the new UK economy is now officially out of recession, reporting a growth in the last quarter of last year of 0.1 per cent is good news indeed, but what is happening to the Irish economy? By Frank Murphy

In its latest quarterly bulletin, the Central Bank delivers a fairly upbeat forecast for the economy in 2010. The end of the economic downturn is in sight, the Bank says, and a “gradual >

Child stars

Showbiz columnist Grainne Maguire looks at our relationship with little famous people...

Just as most adults put children in the same category as communism; a good idea in theory but a nightmarish catastrophe on any sort of practical level, it’s reassuring to know the only >

A tale of two countries

Columnist Don Morgan reports from Ireland...

India is 60 years a republic. Happy birthday to all billion of you. If you had a party, I’d be hard pressed to fit pressies for all of you in the back of the car, not even if it was a >

Help us in our fight

Apparently there will be at least four Inquiries into the affairs of Peter and Iris Robinson.

Mr Robinson has taken time out as First Minister saying, "I dont have months to wait to clear my name" They can order Inquiries it seems at the click of their Ministerial fingers. >

Statue makes no sense

IT was with some trepidation that I read the report that Enniscorthy Town Council has agreed to a statue in the town to the so-called Edentubber Martyrs, who died while preparing one of their own bombs just south of the border in 1957.

Why erect a statue to five would-be bombers who were intent on death and destruction in Northern Ireland?  We have not erected a status to the Enniskillen or Omagh bombers, so why the >

Lynch on form or no?

READING your enjoyable interview with John Lynch about his new film, Holy Water, it was nice to see the Newry actor has the ability to let his hair down a bit with and enjoy himself on the job sometimes.

I remember many of his best performances, but they are almost always quite heavy; if not in the political sense (as was his part in In the Name of the Father), in the nasty scheming horrible >

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