Word: dubliners
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...CHARGED. SEAMUS DALY, 32, suspected member of the separatist Real IRA paramilitary group, with membership in an illegal organization after being arrested in connection with the 1988 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 and injured 220; in Dublin. Daly is one of five men being sued in a civil action by relatives of the victims...
...found two weeks later in a wardrobe in a house in County Cork which Dugdale had rented. The rest were found rolled up in the boot of a Morris Minor which she had borrowed from her landlord. Dugdale, who was sentenced to 11 years in jail, now works in Dublin with a support group for former prisoners. She refuses to discuss the robbery, which made her a household name in Ireland. If Rose Dugdale seemed a character out of a B-movie, the next gangster to target Russborough House actually inspired two feature films about his life and crimes. Dublin...
...multicultural learning experience, with the couple participating in a traditional tea ceremony at a Japanese Cultural Center followed by step dancing at an Irish-American club. In a happy coincidence, the night’s activities matched Totman’s passions—she studied in Dublin last spring, and is interested in East Asian Studies—and provided plenty of conversation to buffer the inevitable on-camera, blind-date uneasiness...
Marie Collins was a 13-year-old hospital patient when Father Paul McGennis sexually abused her in 1960. Thirty-five years later he was still a priest and she found the courage to complain to the office of Dublin's Archbishop, Desmond Connell. There she found a stony bureaucratic indifference that has made her so angry she now wants to file criminal charges against the archdiocese for covering up McGennis' crime. "The abuse didn't take away my religion," says Collins, a Dublin housewife who no longer attends Mass. "The two years trying to get Cardinal Connell...
Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty the Irish government dearly wants voters to ratify this Saturday. (They already rejected it once, last year, thanks to a swirl of conflicting emotions: fear that it would undercut Irish neutrality and sovereignty; an urge to give a bloody nose to the government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern...