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by Niall O'Dowd
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 04:56 PM

9/11 not worth remembering as victims set to suffer even more ---Nothing good came out of horrible catastrophe

 


I dread the upcoming September 11th tenth year anniversary.

I am not alone. I know several families of those killed on that day that feel the same way.



Monday, August 29, 2011 at 06:36 AM

Hurricane Irene teaches us a very valuable lesson ---don't take modern life for granted


The late and unlamented Hurricane Irene has departed our shores, never to return but has left some vital lessons behind.

Authorities were right to hype it in the end.

One in two homes in Connecticut, 40 per cent of homes in Long Island without power is a grave crisis in itself.



Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 04:25 AM

Notes from the eye of Hurricane Irene ---Goodnight Irene, be on your way


Driving back to New York yesterday from upstate New York it was clear that most of the traffic was departing the city, not heading towards it.

I made it down to the city in record time, empty bridge approaches, no heavy trucks, a compete absence of highway patrol as I motored along around 75 miles per hour.

I had left Saratoga Springs about 180 miles from New York on a balmy late summer morning but as I approached the city the clouds darkened and the first squalls began to manifest, driving microbursts of rain that came and went with astonishing speed.



Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 09:31 AM

The death of Britain’s leading Irish newspaper, The Irish Post

Shane MacGowan

The death of a newspaper, especially in these tough economic times, is always a source of deep regret, but the closure of the Irish Post in England is a truly awful event.

The announcement that Britain’s leading Irish newspaper was about to close down was a shock to the system.  How at a time when tens of thousands of Irish are streaming into Britain again could their main newspaper be closing?





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