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    • Reforming the public service

      TAOISEACH-DESIGNATE Brian Cowen has promised "decisive action" in response to a challenging Government-commissioned OECD report on public service reform. Having adopted the late Sean Lemass as his role model, it will be his first big political test. p
    • EU links with Serbia

      A POLITICAL diplomacy of inducement between the European Union and Serbia was put in place yesterday ahead of the Serbian parliamentary election on May 11th. Belgium and the Netherlands agreed to lift their objections to the EU signing a stabilisation and association agreement on condition that the deal is neither ratified nor is aid to Serbia released until it co-operates with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      Elvis Costello and his Oliver's Army must take some of the blame for the prevalent singular/plural confusion ELVIS COSTELLO shares some of the blame. "Oliver's Army is here to stay," he sang a generation ago, in the chorus of one of his catchier numbers. Then, before you could blink, he added: "Oliver's Army are on their way." p
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