Word: dundalk
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When a bomb exploded in Omagh, a market town in the heart of Northern Ireland, five years ago this month, Michael McKevitt was puttering around in the garden of his home on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Irish Republic. Within minutes of the blast, he received a phone call informing him that a number of civilians had been killed. That was an understatement. Twenty-nine people died in the Omagh atrocity, the most deadly incident in more than 30 years of the Troubles. This month McKevitt was convicted of directing the Real I.R.A., a republican splinter group, and sentenced...
Over 2,000 workers in Guinness’s Ireland plants plan to strike this Thursday for an undetermined amount of time. The motivation for the strike is the impending closure of the plant in Dundalk, Co Louth; according to union leaders, the closure of one of the company’s oldest plants will leave 147 people without jobs. If production halts, the supplies of stout and other brews made by the company are expected to run out by the end of April...
...markets around the world, then all of a sudden people are full of ideas about how things should be handled. Bashing Greenspan is not productive; why not be patient? Deep down, we know that he sees the whole picture and that he won't let us down. JAMES FOX Dundalk, Ireland...