When Irish Catholics were hunted down
Niall O'Dowd: Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has spoken out on the need for Catholic and Anglican dialogue. That all sounds very reasonable, but Williams is head of the Established Church which stopped at nothing in its day to end Catholicism as we now know it. They made Pope Benedict's efforts to win over Anglicans look like a child's tea party. Today's Anglicans may well be saying why "can't we all get along" but their predecessors were utterly savage in their fury towards Catholics. FULL STORY >
Sarah Palin, my hero
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Ireland's schools log on to the future - slowly
John Spain: There's nothing like a recession to concentrate the mind! One of my kids is at the stage in school where he has to make choices about the subjects he wants to do in the Leaving Cert, the exam that Irish kids do before they leave school and either go on to university or out into the world of work. Or maybe that should be the world of unemployment. FULL STORY >
Rain, rain go away: Ireland’s weather threatens to ruin bride’s dream Irish wedding
Back home in Kerry to prepare for her wedding, and praying it won’t be a wet one. A waterlogged April Drew reports on a never-ending Irish problem: the incessant rain. FULL STORY >
Thanks ‘Mad Men,’ but 50 years later, let JFK rest in peace
Tom Deignan: Clearly, in the "Mad Men" season finale, the show’s creators were linking the public tragedy of JFK’s assassination with the private tragedy of the crumbling Draper marriage. It was fine television. The problem is that TV shows and movie makers and book writers have been hauling out the events of November 1963 for, well, five decades now. FULL STORY >
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