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The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Growing up on an Antrim farm in the 1950s, young Michael Fay has an idyllic but hard-working life. However, he soon discovers that the woodland beyond the farm is a doorway to another place, a place of wonders and stark terrors which has a strange hold on his family and where he must travel to right an old wrong. A Different Kingdom was Paul Kearney's second novel, originally published in 1993 by Gollancz....
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Wellington Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
In front of Parliament, the statue of John Ballance the prime minister of New Zealand (1891–93) who unified the Liberal Party, which held power for 20 years; he also played a major role in the enactment of social welfare legislation.H e was born March 27, 1839, Glenavy, County Antrim, N.Ire. died April 27, 1893, Wellington, N.Z. After working as an ironmonger in Birmingham, Eng., the self-educated...
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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Looking for some appropriate post-tryptophan entertainment? Novelist Taylor Antrim recommends three great books that readers might have missed this fall. Not to be a scold, but is it really such a good idea to sack out in front of the TV all...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The office of Ombudsman ought to be preserved from “disproportionate cuts” in its finances, Emily O’Reilly has told an event in Co Antrim to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the equivalent office in Northern Ireland.
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
November 25, 2009 (FinancialWire) DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) has closed its acquisition of certain natural gas gathering and treating assets for $45.1 million in cash from MichCon Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE). The assets are located in northern Michigan adjacent to the Partnerships existing assets. These assets provide essential services for gas produced from the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Men arrested after police thwarted an alleged attack in Garrison Two men have been charged tonight with attempting to murder a police officer in Northern Ireland following an incident at the weekend. One of them, a 26-year-old, is also charged with shooting at an undercover security force unit that thwarted the alleged attack in the border village of Garrison, Co Fermanagh on Saturday night. He and...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
DENVER, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DCP Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: DPM) (the "Partnership") today announced the closing of its acquisition of certain natural gas gathering and treating assets for $45.1 million in cash from MichCon Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of DTE Energy. The assets are located in northern Michigan adjacent to the Partnership's existing assets. These assets provide...
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British National Party (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The British National Party has appointed a new organiser in South East Antrim, Paul Stevens, it was announced at the party’s first public meeting in the historic town of Larne in Co Antrim.
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Brian's Study Breaks (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Several years ago, I heard a senior historian of the modern Middle East express surprise that there were still topics left unstudied in the history of what, borrowing a European term but changing its meaning, we call the medieval period. Far from it - in fact, I'd say we're just getting started approaching the era at the level that other fields of history with similar issues take for granted. This...
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BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Correspondents used to compete in the letters page of the Times to register the first cuckoo of the spring. A colleague tells me he recently spotted an Alban Maginness SDLP European election poster on a post close to Junction One, the Antrim Ballymena turn off from the M2. Is this a record? Any nominations for other long lasting election posters?
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
A Catholic priest from Co Antrim has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s, police revealed today.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A prominent republican accused of murdering two British soldiers outside an Antrim army base was refused High Court bail today.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Policing board member Alex Attwood says two attempts to murder police officers this weekend shows dissidents are 'broadening scale' Republican dissidents are widening their terror attacks across Northern Ireland, a member of the province's policing board warned today after two separate attempts to murder police officers at the weekend. Two men were arrested following a gun attack on officers in Co...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
BBC 21 Nov 09 Shots have been fired at police in a County Fermanagh village close to the border with the Irish Republic. Officers returned fire when they came under attack in the village of Garrison, 20 miles from Enniskillen, on Saturday evening. Police have sealed off the area and are searching nearby woodland but there have been no reports of any injuries. Security officials believe that dissident...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
While the SDLP have a very serious fight for the position of new leader, the psephologists' guru and Alliance Party Director, Gerry Lynch, has taken campaigning to be a party candidate to a new level in local politics with the launch of a dedicated website for his push to run in the East Antrim Westminster seat. As he is normally associated with North Belfast does this indicate Sean Neeson will be...
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