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		<title>Billions, Bunglers &amp; Village Idiots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;&#8230;the government is determined to give this €7 billion to these bankers at all costs.  That no matter how difficult the negotiations, no matter how tough a bargain the banks drive, the government has no other strategy but to recapitalise.  That the government has a default position that AIB and Bank of Ireland will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=185&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffer the little children.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 23:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion, we are told, is a deeply personal matter.  People&#8217;s religious beliefs are assumed to be the business of nobody but themselves, their fellow members of their particular religious community and whichever god they chose to worship.  We who rail against the influence of deeply ingrained religious beliefs on many aspects of civil soiety, in areas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=177&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The OUT Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Just tonight I happened across the site of  The OUT Campaign.  This is an organisation which encourages and supports those atheists who wish to come out of the closet and publicly display their atheism.  The scarlet letter A is their symbol and it is now proudly displayed here at Talking Straight and has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=171&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queueing For A Living (Non Irish Style)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made this week of the sight of hundreds of people queueing along St Stephen&#8217;s Green North in the hope of securing one of 150 supermarket jobs on offer from the Griffin-Londis group.  Anne Marie Hourihane does a good piece about it in today&#8217;s Irish Times, and she is the first journalist I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=163&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What have the Government Chief Whip and a Heroin Dealer got in Common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday morning last I was driving to Loughrea from Claregalway when, on Ruth Buchanan&#8217;s Playback programme, I heard a piece from Thurday&#8217;s Liveline.  A guy called John was talking to Damien O&#8217;Reilly about being a small time heroin dealer in Dublin.  John&#8217;s main defence of his part time occupation was as follows. It is simply impossible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=158&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Shameful and Savage Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Once again this Fianna Fáil / Green Party government shows us how completely out of touch it is with the country.  In a truly astonishing move education minister, Batt O’Keefe, today announced that funding for special teacher support for children with mild general learning disabilities in 119 primary schools throughout the country is to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=117&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recapitalisation, Big Bank Style.</title>
		<link>http://andrewlawlor.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/recapitalisation-big-bank-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Last autumn representatives of the main financial institutions went cap in hand to Merrion Street and announced that they were in some serious trouble and something really must be done.  From the outset the government would seem to have been in an incredibly strong negotiating position.  So what did they do?  They pledged to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=112&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Freedom Enduring</title>
		<link>http://andrewlawlor.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/iraqi-freedom-enduring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy is a wonderful thing and America is a wonderful democracy.  This is demonstrated every four years when America goes to the polls and the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue knows and accepts that they may have to relinquish the most powerful political position on the planet.  Recently America has had a desire to export [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=108&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, change you can believe in. Not.</title>
		<link>http://andrewlawlor.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/obama-change-you-can-believe-in-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lawlor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Irish Times this week an interesting story about US president elect, Barack Obama turned up as an eight line story under the headline &#8216;Obama to offer Israel nuclear umbrella.&#8217;  It seems that, according to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, Barack Obama has given assurances to the jewish state that in the event of an Iranian nuclear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=102&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And so, farewell to all that.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the waiting begins.  Bertie has bid farewell to Mr. Justice Alan Mahon and his esteemed colleagues down at Dublin Castle, and when Owen O&#8217;Callaghan has given his tuppence worth the three judges can get on with writing their final report. I must say that I will miss the tribunal.  In entertainment terms it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andrewlawlor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2562019&amp;post=94&amp;subd=andrewlawlor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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