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Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 12:09 AM

1901 Irish census reveals a long lost missing relative in my family

The 1901 census recently up on line providing an incredible insight into the Ireland so many of our ancestors left.

It’s at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie

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Friday, December 23, 2011 at 03:33 PM

Are you ready for Obama's re-election? get your bets on now

Paddy Power the leading Irish bookmaker has Barack Obama at 8/11 to win the 2012 presidential election.

That means you put down eleven dollars and win eight.

I suggest you run don't walk to take those odds.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 10:35 AM

Donald Trump finally loses it -- says he'd beat Obama by winning black voters

Donald Trump reminds me of one of those Middle East dictators who has lost contact with reality-- or like North Korea's late great leader, Kim Yong Il.

It's what happens when you only listen to sycophants and idiots and have a propaganda machine praising you at every turn.

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Monday, December 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM

Secret $350 Million gift to New York by Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney -- Will go to build new Silicon Valley

Irish American billionaire Chuck Feeney has been named as the person who donated $350 million to building the new hi-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island in New York.

Cornell University, Feeney’s old college, beat out Stanford University and other top schools to build the institute.

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Monday, December 19, 2011 at 05:51 AM

De Valera was the Irish equivalent of Korean dictator Kim Yung Il

Watching the North Korean news announcer weeping as she revealed the death of Dear Leader Kim Yong- Il in North Korea reminded me of the crocodile tears we shed in Ireland many years ago after the death of Eamon De Valera.

Like Kim, De Valera was our dear leader, a mythical figure when I was growing up in Ireland.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 05:51 AM

Irish media claims that Sinn Fein live it up in the US are far off the mark