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In pride of place on Jimmy McBride’s wall in Buncrana is a framed poem written by Grace Toland of Clonmany to celebrate the 21st year of the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar, founded by him in 1990. It begins: “A Buncrana school teacher, Jimmy McBride As he was sitting down by.... |
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And what a night it was. I’m no fan of country music. The good news is, sometimes I think Skaggs is the same. A star in the early 1980s, when he was in his 20s, Skaggs went back to his bluegrass roots in the 1990s. He’s now 65 years old, and his Kentucky Thunder band plays bluegrass, with some country and gospel mixed in. |
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EL PASO, Texas — The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the gunman that could carry the death penalty. |
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Cornwall’s most inspiring over 60s have been selected after a call for nominations went out across the region. The campaign was launched by Cornwall Council in April this year and its aim was to find people who were ageing and living well across Cornwall. |
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“F.B.I. classifies it as domestic terrorism, but ‘white terrorism’ is more precise,” Mr. Rosenstein wrote. “Many of the killers are lone-wolf losers indoctrinated to hate through the internet, just like Islamic terrorists.” Suspected gunman had ‘limited’ encounters with the police. |
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(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police once again used tear gas against protesters trying to attack China’s main representation office, capping a weekend of violent demonstrations across the city that mark the ninth week of civil unrest in the Asian financial capital. |
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WKEF-TV (DAYTON, Ohio) — In the second mass shooting in less than 14 hours, at least nine people are dead and more than two dozen wounded after someone opened fire in downtown Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday, according to police. In addition, the suspected shooter was shot and killed by responding.... |
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A FORMER Scottish Labour minister has said her party has lost its relevance and needs to “come to terms” with the fact that it is no longer a power in the land. Margaret Curran said the SNP were “licking their lips” at the state of Scottish Labour, which was “now a small party in
She said: “We are not terribly relevant. |
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By Dana Hall McCain I’ve been asked before why it is that, as a conservative Christian columnist, I spend as much time—if not more—challenging my own tribe as attacking secular progressives. It’s a fair and good question, so I’m taking the time this week to answer it as fully as I can.
It goes back to the way I was raised. |
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When Jaime Kurtz finally had the time and money to travel regularly, she too often found herself stressed out by the experience. "I wasn't enjoying it like I thought I would — and ironically I study happiness and yet I couldn't design an experience for myself that made me happy," she told The.... |
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The Road Safety Authority says driving after a boozy brunch is just as dangerous as doing it after a night out. We're being told to take extra care this weekend after a 7 per cent rise in road deaths so far this year. 90 people have been killed in crashes -
The Minister for Agriculture is being.... |
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