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The Irish Catholic Church and child abuse: It’s not about “bad apples”

By Feature Writer | Published: May 25, 2009
The words of President McAleese - "it was an atrocious betrayal of love" - are mealy-mouthed and underplay the obscene treatment of children in the state's care.
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Cowengate: Government Claims the GUBU Mantle

By Feature Writer | Published: March 27, 2009
An impartial news broadcast on a publicly funded channel requires censorship and apologies? Difficult to believe, since we allegedly live in a democracy, but it happened. The freedom of the press was curtailed.
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad Scarf? The censure of the keffiyeh

By Feature Writer | Published: June 4, 2008
Certainly, it is a scarf. A black and white scarf – in paisley, no less.
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Dirty Old Men

By Zaid Nabulsi | Published: December 10, 2007
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An Inconvenient Princess

By Feature Writer | Published: August 23, 2007
Ten years after the deaths of Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed, and driver Henri Paul, a host of questions lingers. As a new inquest is set to begin, one writer refreshes our memory on just some of the oddities surrounding the incident, as well as on Diana’s amazing ability to influence the public – an ability that may have gotten her killed.
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