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Metro Éireann : 04.12.08

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Amir’s Golden Opportunity

19:26 | 04.12.08

Fast food entrepreneur Amir Afsar has come a long way since his beginnings as a young part-timer. The McDonald’s franchise owner tells CHRISTINA FINN how hard work and dedication, not to mention quality employees, are the keys to his success.

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MAMA Awards 2008

19:08 | 04.12.08

The Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards were bigger than ever in a year that’s been unkind to integration bodies. Viktor Posudnevsky reports. 

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Migrants contribute over €3.7bn each year to Irish economy-MRCI

19:06 | 04.12.08

AMID RISING unemployment, a migrant rights group has moved to highlight the contribution of Ireland’s migrants, who make up around 13 per cent of the workforce.

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Financial planner Ademiniyi Adelekun on the need for savings in this difficult economic climate

08:02 | 04.12.08

The question on many people’s minds is, how does one save in the midst of a difficult economic period?

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‘I’m obsessed with food’

08:00 | 04.12.08

In the latest instalment of Metro Éireann’s Meet The Boss, Sandy Hazel speaks to Natasha Czopor, owner of the heathly foods business Natasha’s Living Food

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The Bandstand - Chapter 6

05:38 | 04.12.08

The two millionaires spend the day filling a skip. The apartment block is almost complete so, while €3,750,000 waits for them in the Lotto headquarters, Jerzy and Filip carry half-emptycement bags and pieces of unwanted timber from the apartments.

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Balbriggan Town councilors accused of inciting racism

05:33 | 04.12.08

AN ANTI-RACISM group has urged local representatives to deal in fact rather than rumour when discussing important controversial issues such as immigration.

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Ireland’s migrant women strive for notice

05:25 | 04.12.08

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World Aids Day calls to stamp out the stigma

05:18 | 04.12.08

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Funding needs ‘new approach’

04:29 | 04.12.08

Ireland’s economic downturn is a topic on everyone’s lips, and it seems like there’s no getting away from it. So it was little surprise that the issue came to the fore among attendees at last Thursday’s euphoric MAMA Awards ceremony.

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MAMA Awards 2008 - And this year’s winners are…

04:17 | 04.12.08

A record 14 awards were presented at this year’s MAMA Awards ceremony in Dublin’s historic Abbey Theatre

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Braving the winter chill

04:13 | 04.12.08

There has been some disappointing news for the Irish squad, as number of experienced players have decided to retire or take a year out of rugby.

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Platini blasts ‘trafficking’ of young soccer players

04:11 | 04.12.08

SOCCER LEGEND Michel Platini has said that the recruitment of young boys from Africa and South America by top European clubs amounts to little more than “trafficking”.

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White Tiger

04:09 | 04.12.08

As the juggernaut of the Indian elections gathers speed, what better book to pick up than White Tiger, the debut novel by Aravind Adiga and this year’s Man Booker Prize winner. This book, written by a well-travelled – and well-off – young Indian

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Poverty abounds in Cambodia’s paradise

04:04 | 04.12.08

After the trauma of researching my article on weapons proliferation in Cambodian society – which had itself come hot on the heels of a terrifying bout against a professional Muay Thai fighter in Bangkok, and a distressing trip to Burma that ended with

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Charles Laffiteau’s Republican politics, American style

04:02 | 04.12.08

Since it looks like my cabinet predictions for the incoming Obama administration came pretty close to the mark, this week I want to discuss their implications for the Obama presidency as well as my dear ‘old’ Republican Party.

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Missile - Utterings and mutterings from around the world

04:01 | 04.12.08

“I was surprised by the criticism but it brought everyone close together, Katie’s entire family and my family. Going through that stuff is not pleasant, and I think it hit an extreme, but Kate’s a very sure and confident and strong woman. She

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Eamon Gilmore for Taoiseach?

03:59 | 04.12.08

For Eamon Gilmore, last Saturday’s Conference address was by far and away the biggest of his political career. Since becoming leader in September last year he has put in consistently solid performances in the Dáil and has been widely accepted as

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