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Noir Beach Shack ♬ 🎞
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đź“˝ Beautiful cinematography by Alberto Etchebehere from Argentine
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La bestia debe morir (The Beast Must Die) 1952 Based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) part of his series featuring private detective Nigel Strangeways
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This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses
www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...
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ICE Releases Grandma With Green Card After 5 Months in Time for Christmas
Donna Hughes Brown's case was highlighted during a hearing with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article313947636.html
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I could happily live with this one on a desert island.
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Carmen Sternwood: "You're not very tall, are you?" Philip Marlowe: "Well, I, uh, I tried to be." Martha Vickers with Bogart -
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- in "The Big Sleep" (1946).
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Remembering Thomas Kinsella, who died on December 22, 2021, aged 93.
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Mrs Brown’s Boys review: The studio audience sound as if they are being held hostage
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Mrs Brown’s Boys review: The studio audience sound as if they are being held hostage
Television: Oh, for a gag about breaking wind or a well-deployed single entendre to interrupt the monotony
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Brendan Kennelly
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I win Christmas.
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight
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'It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me "Won't see another one"'
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The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video) [HD Upgrade]
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Christmas Eve - Máire Mhac an tSaoi
www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...
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CHRISTMAS EVE
With candles of angels the sky is now dappled, The frost on the wind from the hills has a bite, Kindle the fire and go to your slumber, Jesus will lie in this household tonight....
https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-22457_CHRISTMAS-EVE
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Dennis at Christmas, by Declan O’Driscoll Sunday Miscellany
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A tribute to the much-missed poet from his brother, 10 years on.
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Dennis at Christmas, by Declan O’Driscoll
A tribute to the much-missed poet from his brother, 10 years on.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22183532/
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Watch Bono and Imelda May busking earlier this evening Bono & Imelda May | Baby please come home @ The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 24.12.2025
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Bono & Imelda May | Baby please come home @ The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 24.12.2025
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Benjamin Dreyer
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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost
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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author
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From me to you, a serene, relaxing and Happy Christmas 🤶🎄
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ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTIONS How to Gift Wrap a Book from
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Jan Carson
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Happy 100th birthday Winnie. If you need a little heartening listen this week you could do worse that listen to
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Who Are You In Winnie the Pooh? on Radio 4. It’s been great company this week.
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Learn How to Make a Folded Book Christmas Tree
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Imelda May and Bono taking part in the annual Christmas Eve busk on Grafton Street in Dublin on Wednesday, in aid of homeless charity the Simon Community. Photograph: Conor Ó Mearáin/PA Wire
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Dennis O’Driscoll, who died on Christmas Eve in 2012, was the author of nine volumes of poetry and also wrote a book of interviews with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
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Drive the Cold Winter Away - Horslips
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Drive the Cold Winter Away
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Abridged
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Happy Christmas from Abridged! We have lots of groovy things for you in 2026!
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My kind of company.
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Take a few minutes of peace: Sinéad O’Connor (born December 8, 1966) sings Silent Night.
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Silent Night (Long Version)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpXRk5f254&t=1s
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Discovering this book on my dad's bookshelf in the mid-seventies was instrumental in my development as a writer.
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Me too! 🌲
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This will keep you busy. Add in the Diffney Christmas Cracker Quiz, and you're set.
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Russ Jones
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Nobody is getting presents this year, because I can't find the end of the sellotape
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John Creedon
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Chris Rea was embraced by Irish audiences from the very start. Tonight we are saddened but still playing his songs and sending love to Middlesbrough and Chris's family.
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Chris Rea - Shine Shine Shine
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Clannad - Christmas Angels
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Clannad - Christmas Angels
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Roy Lonergan
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Went to the matinee today. It’s a very good production, strong cast. Not perfect, but what is. The G’s review is odd. Complaining about a play set in Mayo being spoken in Mayo accents. Really?
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Mick Lally recites three poems with a Christmas theme by MáirtĂn Ă“ Direáin.
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Irish Christmas Poems - Mick Lally, 1986
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After 10 years at the top, Holly is no longer the most popular girls’ name for babies born in December
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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CSO reveals the most popular Christmas baby names
After 10 years at the top, Holly is no longer the most popular girls’ name for babies born in December
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/23/cso-reveals-the-most-popular-christmas-baby-names/
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In remembrance of Dennis O'Driscoll via
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A young girl dressed up as Father Christmas with outfit, mask, sack and staff. Christmas 1912. Source: National Library of Ireland
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Annie West
3 days ago
Another Christmas party ruined
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Jane Casey
4 days ago
Really sad about Chris Rea. Driving Home for Christmas is one of my small seasonal pleasures as we point the car northwest for Holyhead.
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