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    • The pivotal moments

      It can only be good for the democratic process which we are now experiencing that almost one million prospective voters - 941,000 people - watched the leaders' debate on the Prime Time programme on RTÉ on Thursday night. p
    • Missing Madeleine

      So many parents have done it - or something like it - at some stage, almost without thinking, and yet now, fifteen days after four-year old Madeleine McCann's disappearance, what parent would leave their child asleep in their holiday apartment to have a meal nearby? p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Rain On The Wind was Walter Macken's third novel. Published in Britain and the US in 1950, it proved to be the breakthrough book that allowed him to fulfil his lifetime ambition and become a full-time writer. Ultan Macken first read the book at the age of 12 or 13 in the 1950s. "Reading it then, and many times since, I always thought it had been written while my father was living in Galway. In fact he wrote it while working as an actor with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin." p
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