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Border poll is not high on our list of priorities - opinion - Western People (opens the original)
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So Shane Lowry upstaged Donald Trump in Doonbeg by winning the Irish Open in the most spectacular style. Lowry, it appears, had been dealing with some ghosts from earlier in the year when he gave up winning leads in two major competitions, the Dubai International and the Cognizant Classic, both important big prize money tournaments. The Offaly man was in a winning position going into the closing holes of both tournaments but failed to finish with a win. It had haunted him in more recent competit
Big Tech cannot be allowed to decide our fate - opinion - Western People (opens the original)
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Seeing as how Mr Trump is paying us a visit and doing Bord Fáilte’s job in attracting the free-wheeling, free-spending US visitors to our shores and seeing as how he will, according to the traditional media, be subjected to a frosty reception by our Úachtaráin, Catherine Connolly, who, no matter what the querulous media might think, is well able to properly uphold her duties as President of Ireland and will be gracious as well as pragmatic, in her welcome. In the circumstances, I thought it migh
Reality returns after a nighttime of dreaming - opinion - Western People (opens the original)
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I don’t know if I should mention this but I have been dreaming a lot lately. I’m not an expert on dreams. I’m not sure that there is anything in them and before you jump to conclusions it has nothing to do with Mayo winning the All Ireland. None of these recent dreams have had anything to do with me togging out again. I have had dreams in the past when Mayo were struggling and of course there were pleas to come to the rescue. But that was long ago. No. These recent dreams have been very random a
Billy's book captures essence of rural Ireland - opinion - Western People (opens the original)
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Your humble scribe was among the multitudes that turned out for the launch of Billy Heffron’s book, Fighting the Good Fight, on August 21 in the Ox Suite of the Great National Hotel in Ballina. I arrived at the appointed time of 7pm as I was to perform the launch but was somewhat taken aback to see the place almost empty. You know how you are conditioned to think the worst. I feared that there would be a small crowd, but I was mistaken. The Moygownagh people, it would seem to me, like to arrive
No need for lobbyists until budget is finished - opinion - Western People (opens the original)
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This was a rough week. I had to get a fill of kerosene. Eight hundred and seventy one litres at €1.21 per litre. Do the math and the bill comes to just short of €1,200. Included in that, of course, is VAT at 13.5% which comes to €142. The poor old pensioner is again harassed to keep the politicians in the comfort to which they have become accustomed. A few months ago that fill of kerosene would have cost around €800. Thank you Mr Netanyahu, architect of the Iran war. Our legislators wring their
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