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Archaeology:Standing form: the stone ditches of Donegal
At least part of this stone ditch can still be seen today as a field boundary between Drumeneel and a small hill called Leggocurry, just to the south of the R231 between Rossnowlagh and Ballintra. The feature survives as an overgrown stone wall, built up against the side of a small drumlin. Running along part of the northern side of this wall is a reed-filled ditch, about 2.5m wide and 2m in depth from the top of the stone wall. The stone ditch may have been used, in conjunction with a small stream to the north, as a landholding boundary.
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Archaeology:The primitive mines of Ross Island, Killarney
The results of more recent archaeological investigations by Dr William O'Brien, published in his book Ross Island: Mining, Metal and Society in Early Ireland, has revealed the true antiquity of these primitive workings and demonstrates that the copper resources of this area were exploited from the very earliest times.
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Presenting the West
Billy Leahy tries to sidestep the clichés as he makes his tentative journey into the West at The Royal Hibernian Academy's latest exhibition
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Booker news.
You're booked. The 2005 Premier League Reading Stars campaign and Jamie Oliver on school dinners and Dan Brown with Angels & Demons
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Hit man
The flimsy logic of Ridley Pearson's latest crime novel, Cut and Run, does not take away from its enjoyment, writes Michael Agger
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Five run away together
Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton from Hodder Children's Pressis is number three in a series of 21 books. It follows the same pattern as the others with absolutely no character development or plot variation.
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The Colin Whelan murder trial
Colin Whelan coldly planned his wife's murder, boasting of his anticipated insurance windfall to a woman he met on the internet, and then faked his death and absconded to Spain. Siobhan Gaffney reports from the court where he was sentenced last week
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Croke park a valuable asset
As the GAA votes on whether to allow soccer and rugby at Croke Park Diarmaid Ferriter looks at the history of the ban
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Who will rid us of these turbulent PDs...
The English king, Henry II once plaintively asked, "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Now I'm not suggesting that Michael McDowell should be dealt with in the manner of poor Thomas à Becket, but after last weekend's histrionics at the PD conference in Cork, I detect a fatalistic irritation in the ranks of Fianna Fáil, a wondering if there is anyone capable of shutting him up.
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The Pope, Dr Who... the men get all the top jobs
While the memory of that plain wooden coffin on the beautiful oriental rug will long linger, the feel-good factor of the Pope's funeral went out the window as soon as President Khatami got back to Iran and denied that he had shaken the hand of Israel's President Khatsav. What may or may not have been an exchange of "peace be upon you" and a chat in Farsi about their shared home place of Yazd was replaced by mutterings about "baseless claims by the Zionist media".
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Ireland's most influential people
For all the publicity people like Mary Robinson and Bertie Ahern may garner, the majority of movers and shakers in Ireland are relatively unknown.
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New road to the Republic
On 6 April I made an appeal to the IRA to commit itself to purely political and democratic activity. Before making these remarks I thought long and hard about this initiative. There has been adverse comment about the timing of my appeal. Some have dismissed it as an election stunt. Others have said it is a confidence trick.
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Can I get a witness?
The rise in evangelical, Pentecostal and gospel style churches in Ireland in recent years is relatively unknown to the general population. Village takes a soulful journey. Words and photographs by Tom Galvin
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Irish sign language should be recognised, taught and a right
Imagine your child is at a school where neither the teacher nor anyone else in the school can communicate in his/her own first language. Imagine that all the children in the school share the same first language, but none of the adults who work there do. Imagine that your child will never be encouraged to communicate in its own language for the entire time it is at the school. Stretch your mind and envisage an educational space where those same children are taught NOT to express themselves in their first language, even though it is the most accessible means of communicating, both within their own community and elsewhere.
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Gardaí who misled Tribunal still serving
Sgt Murray was neither "truthful" nor "conscientious". Garda Leonard gave evidence "in an effort to mislead the Tribunal". Garda Anderson failed to tell "unbridled truth". All three are still serving with the force. By Vincent Browne
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