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October 2, 2008

Cowen: Famine was a blessing in disguise

Tadgh Torres
Posted by : Tadgh Torres
Filed under : Irish News, Politics

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen has enraged the ancestors of victims of Ireland’s Potato famine by today declaring the disaster as “a blessing in disguise”. The Great Famine of 1847 which claimed the lives of 2 million Irish citizens and forced another 2 million to emigrate was brought about when English settlers set about injecting every [...]


September 25, 2008

Eddie Hobbs enjoying nation’s plunge into recession

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News

Irish celebrity account Eddie Hobbs has reacted with glee to the news that the country is officially in a recession for the first time since 1983.
The star of TV hits such as ‘Show me the money’, ‘Spend it like Beckham’, ‘Eddie’s Euro Vision’ and ‘Eddie does Dallas’ today held a press conference in Captain America’s [...]