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#BACK TO BACK: The United States retained the women’s World Cup as a Megan Rapinoe penalty and a superb Rose Lavelle strike gave the holders a 2-0 victory over a battling Netherlands side in Lyon.
#GREECE: Greece’s conservative New Democracy party has defeated leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza party in today’s general election.
#NEW YORK: Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested on new sex-trafficking charges in New York, US media has reported.
#SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: The UK’s ambassador the US has described President Donald Trump and his administration as “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional,” according to leaked memos published by the Mail on Sunday.
There was a rare example of praise from across the Dáil today as Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan praised Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty for a widely-shared clip that saw the Donegal TD dismantle insurance bosses who were appearing before the Oireachtas Finance Committee.
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You just can’t replace these priceless documents which speak directly to us of who we were and who we are.
Who we are!!
Dan, maybe pay a visit to the many wonderful libraries and museums which are free or check online for census, church and civil records also free or buy any of the wonderful books on Irish history available.
And where do we come from!!!
People always ask us…
You might find though that some of us destroyed a lot of our precious civil records in 1922 and so, some of us can’t ever find out who we are. Thanks for that.
There is always church records.
No mention of Metro North back then ? That’s a first.
Jesus even in the 1700s Dublin was a lovely place.
There’s a brilliant map of Dublin from 19797 in Patrick’s Bar in the Marina in Albufeira. Its just amazing. I’ll see if they do make that evenue next time I’m there!
Dublin Castle is the front of British imperialism in Ireland. Leave the castle to rot
Take out everything British and imperial out of dublin and what have we got left……… the luas and the jervis… ???
Pretty sure the Vikings built Dublin up as a trading port and that the sewage system etc predates the British.
@brian magee:
I have worked on the sewage system in Dublin, I reckon it predates the Vikings!!
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