Word: dubliner
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Russians learned Thursday that former prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the mastermind of Russia's early 1990s "shock therapy" economic reform, was poisoned last Friday in Dublin. Irish doctors managed to save Gaidar from what he now calls "a threat to my life." The doctors appear to have established that the affliction that caused Gaidar's nosebleeds and violent vomiting was no routine case of food poisoning, and are waiting for the results of forensic tests to determine the cause of an illness for which they could find no conventional explanation. Even President Vladimir Putin called to offer Gaidar his sympathies...
Traveling to Dublin, where she believes her renegade husband to have retreated after their shotgun wedding, Letty finds herself enmeshed in a world of subterfuge and shifting aliases. As Letty stumbles blindly through the dark warrens of Dublin’s crypts and other rebel depots, I was not able to deduce any sort of internal logic to her rambling experiences...
Oliver O?Grady is a slender, soft-spoken man wandering around Dublin in his windbreaker, the very picture of a retiree living on a modestly fixed income with, perhaps, not quite enough useful activity to occupy an intelligent and still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...
...their families who suffered at the hands of Father Oliver O’Grady. Despite having raped and sodomized what likely amount to hundreds of children, O’Grady served just seven years in prison and gives his own narrative while walking freely through the streets of Dublin, where he now lives...
...first was the Super Bowl in the Superdome, right after Sept. 11, which was obviously memorable. But a little added irony is that an hour after I got offstage that night, I got a call from Dublin saying that the U2 [storage] space had been flooded. All our instruments and amps had been destroyed. The only ones that survived were the ones we happened to have in New Orleans...