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    • Nightmare of violence

      Yesterday's nightmare of violence in Baghdad returned the city to the worst days of 2006, before the extra surge of United States troops designed to provide the city with extra security. The death of up to 200 people in a string of suicide car bombings mocked the announcement earlier yesterday by the Iraqi prime minister that the gradual handover of security in the country's provinces by US and British forces is going according to plan. p

    • Promises for women

      The Government is once again offering to do something about discrimination against women. And it is all about the coming general election. The last time there was such a flurry of activity was in 2001, when a draft National Plan for Women was prepared. p
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    • Consultant greed lies unmasked

      At last we are able to glimpse what lies at the core of negotiations on the new contract for hospital consultants. As the talks waxed and waned with excruciating slowness over the past four years, the ground continually shifted. Every conceivable obstacle has been grasped by consultants to hinder the introduction of a vital reform within the system, writes Mary Raftery p

    • Right to bear arms for US citizens is like a declaration of independence

      William Montgomery , an American living and working in London, offers an explanation as to why Americans are unlikely to give up their guns. p

    • Devolved government must address democratic reform

      Northern Ireland has a poor record of democratic performance and the very welcome prospect of restoration of the democratic institutions bequeathed by the Belfast Agreement should not obscure the real challenges which lie ahead, writes Robin Wilson . p

    • And here is your Host . . . the religious rite-wing radio

      Newton's Optic: That was The Monkees with I'm a Believer and you're listening to Jeremy Sweater on Host FM, Ireland's first openly Christian radio station. Later we'll be asking if the Central Bank is a money changer in Temple Bar, then studio guest Michael McDowell will read from his favourite Biblical passage, Ephesians 3:7, Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God. We'll also have a specially commissioned hymn for listeners in Galway, Water friend we have in Jesus, all coming up after the Good News and Weather. But first a quick look at the international headlines. By the rivers of Babylon, a bridge fell down, yea George Bush wept, when he remembered Zionism. In Britain, defence secretary Des Browne has been summoned before God for inscribing the Ten Commandos. Finally, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has been arrested by Russian authorities. Well, Garry, that's what you get for sacrificing a bishop. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      The man ahead of me in the Starbucks queue the other day ordered something called a "tall, skinny latte, with an extra shot". Of course, they knew exactly what he meant. He was speaking their language, literally. But when it came to my turn I held my nerve and, as usual, asked for a "small black coffee", inviting the inevitable demands for clarification, writes Frank McNally p
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