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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>A first step.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spoke with a couple of very helpful men from Crumlin United in Dublin.
They weren’t surprised that a journalist was on the phone to them.
Their young goalkeeper had just made a, little bit of history.Alan Smith, originally from Cork, had signed for the Rangers Under 19 team.
Celtic had the lad over two weeks before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sash cloud.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week end Northern Ireland was treated to what some people believe should be viewed as being comparable to the Rio Carnival.
That we should treat the Battle of the Boyne celebrations as manifestations of street theatre, cultural pageant and general good day out.
In recent years the annual 12th July Orange parades have been rebranded as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Paraguayans.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the features of this current World Cup competition-now in its semi finals stage-has been the performance of the minor footballing powers. I am not referring to England, but to countries like the USA, Algeria and Paraguay.

Although the United States is the pre-eminent power on the planet it is, in soccer terms, a minnow.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Gael. The Enda.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago a hiking trip in the Highlands of Scotland was peppered with breathless phone calls from Dail Eireann.
I still marvel at the technology that can patch me through to Kildare Street in Dublin as I stood on the Ard Nish peninsula where the hard men of the Army Commando had been selected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philmacgiollabhain.com/fine-gael-the-enda/</link>
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		<title>Island life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two days the people on the island of Inishmaan have had no water supply.
It got me to thinking of my island neighbours.
I remember my first memories of going to visit relatives on Achill here in Mayo.
My grandmother’s elder sister told me that I had island men in my blood.
I might have been [...]]]></description>
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