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	<title>Phil Mac Giolla Bhain</title>
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	<description>Campaigning Journalist  &#124;  Literary Dissident</description>
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		<title>James McCarthy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a difficult few months for any of us who follow the boys in green.
If the punch in the gut equaliser from Italy in Croke Park was the injury then the Henry handball in Paris was the insult.
For those of you who follow the Republic of Ireland then you’ll know about that sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The year that was in it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with any look back over a year one’s view is always an entanglement of the global the national and the personal.
From my vantage point here on Ireland’s western seaboard much is changed and much remains the same.
Nationally this was a year of seismic changes. The world-banking crisis that started in 2008 with the collapse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/the-year-that-was-in-it/</link>
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		<title>Salsa at the crossroads.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the law of unintended consequences one of the more beguiling effects of Tiger full employment was to bring people into Ireland who have unwittingly re-introduced something that we, as a people, probably lost a long time ago.
Recently I was in my father’s town of Westport County Mayo I had a great couple of nights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/salsa-at-the-crossroads/</link>
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		<title>Respect for the fallen.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Respect for the fallen is a basic tenet of human decency.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/respect-for-the-fallen/</link>
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		<title>An act of remembrance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Remembrance day was hijacked in a soccer PR war.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/an-act-of-rememberance/</link>
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