Word: dubliner
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...didn’t really like parties very much,” Stuhl said. “He once told me that he happened to meet Samuel Beckett at a party in Dublin, because they were both at a party and they were both hiding behind some furniture...
...worst atrocity of the Irish Troubles: three bombs exploding within 90 seconds during rush hour in Dublin in May 1974, killing 27 and maiming hundreds. Ninety minutes later, another bomb went off outside a pub in Monaghan, killing seven. No one was ever charged with the crimes. Last week a four-year judicial inquiry concluded that it was probable, though not proven, that the loyalist paramilitaries who planted the bombs had help from low-level members of the British security forces. Justice Henry Barron, the report's author, tried to probe whether senior British intelligence figures were involved...
...airports. If the Commission comes down hard, Ryanair could either be forced to withdraw from those airports, particularly in France and Spain, or pay more. That could cut its operating margins from the present 30% or so to less than 20%, says Joe Gill, head of equity research at Dublin-based Goodbody Stockbrokers...
...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick, new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...
...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...