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/ 28 January 2003
In a threadbare Paris theatre, on January 5, 1953, several years after the playwright Samuel Beckett had fled the sharp censors in his native Ireland, the groundbreaking ”Waiting for Godot”, first graced the stage.
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/ 21 December 2002
The first group of 100 lucky people chosen to witness Ireland’s oldest calendar ”clock” in operation were allowed into the chamber of a giant burial mound this week, an environment ministry representative said.
The Irish go back to the polls Saturday to vote a second time on the Nice treaty on EU enlargement, in a crucial referendum that could make or break the European Union’s bold plans to expand into the once-communist east.
Irish media group Independent News & Media reported a fall in first-half earnings on Monday, in line with market forecasts, but said it hoped to benefit from any improvement in a sluggish advertising market.