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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mwi.westpoint.edu | John Spencer |Liam Collins |Jayson Geroux
In 2008, a surge in violence from an Iraqi militia called the Jaysh al-Mahdi—better known to coalition forces as JAM—broke out in Baghdad. It was, in part, a response to an Iraqi military offensive against the group’s fighters in the southern city of Basra. For months, attacks with improvised explosive devices and other weapons had dropped precipitously in the Iraqi capital.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Passing of singer at 88 brings back fond memories of halcyon days when showbands rocked and ruledAt the height of his popularity, Dickie Rock was not just an incredible stage performer, he appeared to exemplify a new way of life for the thousands of people who flocked to dance in the ballrooms all over the country in the early 1960s.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
neweasterneurope.eu | Liam Collins
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Although she entered politics as an independent, Hussey was a natural acolyte of the liberal wing of Fine Gael, a close friend of the party leader and his wife Joan and a strong supporter of his “constitutional crusade” to legalise contraception and divorce. However, it wasn’t always easy.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Rudi Vata: Football, Freedom and Paradise by Gerard McDade is a must-read for Celtic soccer fansBiographyRudi Vata's new biographyRudi Vata may not be a household name – apart from in the households of diehard Celtic fans – but a chance encounter in Dublin with footballing legend Liam Brady changed his life. Vata was a young member of the Albanian national football team at a time when his country was a repressive isolationist state ruled by Enver Hoxha.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
The pensioner in Election 2024: ‘I get €277 a week, I do all right – but parties must do more to support young people’Liam Collins and Bertie. Photo: by Gerry MooneyJust as Groucho Marx would not join a club that would have him as a member, I wouldn’t vote for a political party because it promised me goodies. But people still fall for this old three-card trick. Like a lot of my generation, I remember the Fianna Fáil giveaway budget of 1977.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Liam Collins: ‘As a pensioner, I get €277 a week, I do all right – but political parties must do more to support young people’Party manifestos seem to treat the needs of older people as if it was all about nursing homes and dementia care. Stock imageJust as Groucho Marx would not join a club that would have him as a member, I wouldn’t vote for a political party because it promised me goodies. But people still fall for this old three-card trick.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Kenny died at the Galway Clinic on Friday night after the recurrence of the cancer that ended his collaboration with fellow Limerick comedian Pat Shortt in 2000. Yesterday, Shortt described Kenny as a “comic genius”. The pair last performed together in the 2021 hit movie The Banshees of Inisherin, in roles created for them by writer and director Martin McDonagh.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Liam Collins
Journalist and former MP Chris Mullin was instrumental in freeing the Birmingham Six but he was branded ‘worse than the bombers’ for refusing to identify the perpetratorsAs the state funeral for President Erskine Childers, whose father was a leading figure in the old IRA, wound its way through the streets of Dublin, ‘Big Mick’ Murray was putting the finishing touches to the bombs that exploded in Birmingham that night, murdering 21 people and injuring 220 more.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Liam Collins
Journalist and former MP Chris Mullin was instrumental in freeing the Birmingham Six but he was branded ‘worse than the bombers’ for refusing to identify the perpetratorsOn a cold November day in 1974, as the people of Birmingham went about their business unaware of the horror that was about to fall on their city, ‘Big Mick’ Murray was putting the finishing touches to the bombs that exploded in two of its bars, murdering 21 people and injuring 220 more.
