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Martyn Turner

Wednesday May 17th, 2017

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Wed May 17 2017 - 09:04

Revolution in the Airs – An Irishman’s Diary about Portugal’s Eurovision winner and Laurie Anderson in Dublin

Legislative inertia

Third-level education and loans system

Russian revelations reveal a president out of his depth

Varadkar browbeats us all on welfare problems

Welfare fraud – a culture of hysteria?

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