The Irish Government examined the possibility of redrawing the border in the 1970s, taking up to 60% of Northern Ireland’s territory and up to 500,000 its citizens.
Brendan O’Carroll’s hammy Irish Mammy, Agnes Brown, has made the Dublin comedian famous and wealthy – and widely detested by comedy purists/snobs (delete according to perspective). This festive period, as fans look forward to the latest Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas special – and the rest of the world trembles in horror – O’Carroll may well spare a thought for his own mother, Maureen. Christmas, after all, is a time for looking back and reflecting on those who have shaped us. And few will have had
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In tackling the big beasts of housing and health, any future Sinn Féin government will find its war chest pinched by shrinking corporate receipts and the new Future Ireland fund