IRA men launch new appeal against detention
From Belfast Telegraph
Five Dublin men jailed for IRA membership, who last month lost their High Court bid for release from Portlaoise Prison, are now appealing this to the Supreme Court. Last month they argued that the Special Criminal Court did not have the jurisdiction to try them because of the failure to charge them directly after their arrest.
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xlairax @ 2007-12-05T23:11:00
From xlairax.livejournal.com/
I just finished an amazing book Mirror Lake, by Thomas Christopher Greene. He befriends this lonely old man named Wallace and gradually over the course of the story, Wallace tells his life story. At the same time, every life holds an incredible story to be told. When I finally left, I stopped for a moment by the lake's shore, and I looked out to where on a Christmas Day years ago Nora had skated on the ice. And the truth is, in the end, all we are, all we can ever be, are stories, stories...
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Liberal Hawk Says Iraq No Longer Matters
From www.smirkingchimp.com
Iraq is now a "Non- Story" and quickly becoming irrelevant to the presidential campaign. Of course liberal hawks like Beinart want us to believe that public concern about Iraq is fading away. They don't want the public to realize that the top three Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination have endorsed the plan to make Iraq an outpost of the empire. If editors and cable show hosts want Iraq on the front page, they could certainly say that 53 deaths, or even 21, is newsworthy. In...
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Ireland's new Catholic cardinal condemns dissident IRA attacks on ...
From International Herald Tribune
DUBLIN, Ireland : Ireland's newly elevated Catholic cardinal, Sean Brady, on Wednesday condemned the recent rise in dissident IRA violence in Northern Ireland and appealed to everyone to support security forces in the British territory. He said Irish Republican Army dissidents responsible for shooting two police officers in separate ambushes last month had mounted "a direct attack on the right to life and the freedom of all to play their part in the new, agreed institutions of Northern...
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Theatre In The Park Presents 'A Christmas Carol'
From NBC 17.com
North Carolina's own, Ira David Wood, III gives guests a modern, humorous update on the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol." Wood said his Christmas present to himself every year is watching the audience react to the Christmas lullaby he wrote in remembrance of his father who died when he was only 12 years old. "I wanted to write a song that are the words I never got to hear, but also the words any mother, father or parent would want to sing to their child," Wood said.
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