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...debate in the country. "Even if there is no official appetite for a show trial, media outlets can't take the chance of the law not being enforced," Nugent says. "So there is a kind of self-imposed censorship." This would seem to be the case at national broadcaster RTE. While working on his irreverent television series The Savage Eye, which features excoriating sketches about the Catholic church, comedian Dave McSavage says he was sent a draft version of the law by his producers. "We were told to keep it in mind," he says. If anything, however...
...their own, this type of explosive does need to be combined with other elements to make it into a bomb, but obviously this type of high-grade explosive is potentially extremely dangerous," Commandant Gavin Young, an Irish Defense Forces spokesman, said in an interview with the Irish national broadcaster RTE...
...bookies ended up reversing their odds, and a big turnout of voters seems to have pushed Ahern ahead in the home stretch. An exit poll by the state broadcaster, RTE, predicts 41.6% of the vote for Fianna Fail, which is probably enough to enable Ahern to form a new coalition. Power is certainly convinced Ahern will pull it off. Before counting began the bookmaker announced he was paying out to gamblers who wagered on Ahern remaining Taoiseach...
...discredited forerunner in the Taoiseach's office, described Ahern admiringly as "the most cunning, the most devious, the best of them all." Even so, voters seem to trust him. Frank Luntz, the U.S. pollster who has recently been taking the country's temperature for Ireland's national broadcaster rte, says Ahern gives "the impression of being human and personable and genuinely likable. While people may be disappointed with the government, they're not disappointed with him." Fiona Sherlock, just 18 and looking forward to voting for the first time, is happy to have met a hero at the checkout...
...Margaret's murderers are not the images we'll remember. Her family, her colleagues, the foreign correspondents who cherished her advice and the tens of thousands of Iraqis who benefited from her work will never forget all the good she did. ?By Richard Downes, reporter for Irish TV station RTE...