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		<title>Some Children Are More Equal Than Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O&#8217;ConnellHer name was Ruth.
She had another name, a name from Nigeria, but she preferred not to use it.
Too many painful memories, perhaps.
She was 15 years old when she was sent to Dublin by her grandmother, who hoped she might make a life for herself here, after the rest of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of children dead or missing in State care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O&#8217;ConnellThe HSE once lost a file on my child.&#160;There’s nothing unusual in this &#8211; almost everyone has a story of HSE incompetence.The incident, though not serious, gave me a brief insight &#8211; a mere shadow of the kind of insight the whole country has been getting over the past seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Norris Would Be Good For The Áras</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O’ConnellAs I watched Senator David Norris talk to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show recently about his presidential hopes, I found myself experiencing a creeping discomfort.
Not because of his sexuality; I think Norris would make an inspiring, effective and unifying President for many reasons, just one of them his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Surrendered Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O&#8217;ConnellIt’s hard to imagine now, but once upon a time, motherhood was a pretty straightforward enterprise. In the 1934 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ‘mother’ was defined as follows: ‘‘Woman who looks after children.&#8221;
Nowadays, it’s a lot more complicated. ‘Parent’ is no longer just a noun; it’s a verb too. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battling The Black Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O&#8217;ConnellI’ve always had an affinity with the journalist and bestselling novelist Allison Pearson. This may be because of the night in February 2008 when I was sitting up in bed, reading her last novel, I Don’t Know How She Does It, a semi-autobiographical account of the life of a working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nowhere Left To Turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell: By Jennifer O&#8217;ConnellThe facts, by now, hardly bear repeating. On a desolate January day in the Massachusetts town of South Hadley, a girl called Phoebe Prince &#8211; young, beautiful, Irish, full of life and promise &#8211; closed the door of her rented family home behind her, and shut the world out for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting To The Point of Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell:   

By Jennifer O’Connell

When he was alive, my grandfather used to tell us about his childhood memory of sleeping on a mattress under the bedroom window of his house in Waterford, as the bullets fired by the Free State Army came whizzing across Scotch Quay.

My father recalls sitting up in bed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Catholic Church Got Out Of Our Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell:   

By Jennifer O’Connell

It was one of those funerals at which you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: laugh at the spectre of grown women trussed up in stiff, white bonnets, like middle-aged Little Bo Peeps? Or cry at the angelic faced toddlers, struggling to hold aloft flags that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Steps to a Big Blunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell

There are some meetings at which you would give anything to be a fly on the wall.

There’s the one which took place in Leinster House late on a Monday night in September 2008,when the Minister for Finance agreed to include Anglo Irish Bank in the guarantee being issued to the banks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The extraordinarily shocking and shockingly ordinary death of Phoebe Prince</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer O&#39;Connell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer O&#8217;Connell:
By Jennifer O’Connell

There can be few places on Earth more spectacular, or more isolated, than Fanore in West Clare. Buffeted between the vast limestone expanse of the Burren on one side and the restless Atlantic on the other, Fanore boasts a shop, a single pub and a post office.&#160;

Its surroundings &#8211; the beach, [...]]]></description>
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