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by Niall O'DowdNiall, IrishCentral's founder and publisher, is a believer and expert in all things Irish and Irish-American.
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Periscope for July 2012
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 06:01 AM
New IRA group a bad joke but no one is laughing - Delusion of grandeur that they can end peace process
A new IRA group wants to threaten the peace process.
Yesterday the widely respected Guardian newspaper led with a story that an organization calling itself the IRA, composed of different factions of dissidents, has come together and is intent on threatening the Irish peace process.
The group is a sick joke.
Give me Irish weather any time over heatwave America - Cool and wet beats hot and humid anytime in my books
By some measures it is the wettest summer in Ireland since 1909 and real records began.
I wish I was there.
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