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Metro Éireann : 12.03.09

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‘F**king foreigners’ are ‘fair game’

18:59 | 12.03.09

A LATVIAN soccer team will quit playing in an Irish league if xenophobic and thuggish behaviour is not stamped out.

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Global tales told for Ireland’s youngsters

18:59 | 12.03.09

A NEW CHILDREN’S book uses stories and illustrations to introduce children to five of Ireland’s priority partner countries in Africa and Asia.

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Former ANC activist to contest Dublin elections

18:58 | 12.03.09

HE DEFIED South Africa’s apartheid regime – but that doesn’t mean Patrick Maphoso expects Dublin politics to be a walk in the park.

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Dublin student \'gobsmacked\' to win Mandela Cup

18:58 | 12.03.09

MAHALIA Musuka got a bit of a shock last week when her teacher told her she’d be speaking at a debating competition – the next day. And she was even more “gobsmacked” when she won.

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‘He feels betrayed’

18:57 | 12.03.09

When Metro Éireann exclusively broke the story of a Sikh Garda reservist banned from wearing his turban, the incident became an international talking point. The man at the centre of the debacle, Irish citizen Ravinder Singh, has steadfastly refused to

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Somali student fears for ill brother’s safety in Nairobi prison

18:56 | 12.03.09

A SOMALI Leaving Cert student has issued a plea on behalf of her mentally ill brother.

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Asylum life caught on camera

18:56 | 12.03.09

This month is a good one for Vukašin Nedeljković. His baby will be born at the end of March, and his work will be presented at one of the most pre-eminent visual art shows in Ireland, Limerick’s ev+a exhibition.

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Gardaí deny deportation mess-up

18:56 | 12.03.09

A GARDA spokesperson has refuted claims that Nigerian children ended up in the force’s custody following a deportation to Lagos on 25 February.

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Charles Laffiteau\'s Republican politics, American style

18:55 | 12.03.09

Previously I suggested that the US and other governments take possession of their banks’ ‘toxic assets’ so that they could raise fresh capital in order to start lending again. To reduce the cost to taxpayers I also suggested that those governments

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MSF Ireland chief warns of grim times ahead for Darfur

18:54 | 12.03.09

Ross Duffy doesn’t mince his words. “Unprecedented consequences” await Darfur’s people, predicts Medecins Sans Frontieres’ Ireland chief, following the ejection of over 10 aid agencies from Sudan last week.

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In Dublin\'s Prayer City

18:54 | 12.03.09

African Pentecostal churches have been springing up in Ireland’s industrial parks month after month. CATHERINE REILLY pays a visit to one in north Dublin and sees what all the fuss is about...

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Tolu Mohammed - owner of the bustling Dundalk hair salon The Hair Extensions - tells Metro Éireann how she grasped a golden opportunity

18:53 | 12.03.09

A hairdresser made in Dundalk

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The lowdown on life insurance

18:53 | 12.03.09

You and Your Money with Ademiniyi Adelekun

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St Patrick’s Day in… Poland?

18:52 | 12.03.09

Green clovers on the windows, St Patrick’s Day posters pinned-up and Guinness signs placed outside – and that’s just a pub on a Wrocław corner.

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Polish Corkonians are out of this world

18:51 | 12.03.09

POLES IN Cork will participate in the city’s St Patrick’s Day parade – with a somewhat unearthly exhibition.

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Tekst Message

18:50 | 12.03.09

The hope has come. As Waterford Crystal looks set to survive, the Irish economy seems finally to have grasped the brake and perhaps stopped its catastrophic fall.

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New radio series to lift lid on lives of Dublin’s Indians

18:50 | 12.03.09

INDIANS will ‘lift the lid’ on their lives in Ireland as part of a new radio series, beginning next week.

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Eastern European docs ‘discriminated against’ - claim

18:49 | 12.03.09

BLATANT discrimination faces eastern European medical professionals in Ireland, according to a Lithuanian doctor based here.

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