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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>HSE&#8217;s  €600,000 €800,000 secret settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Newspaper Man: Two weeks ago we published details of a secret €600,000 settlement the HSE agreed with Lifeline Ambulance in 2008.The settlement figure was released 14 months after a Freedom of Information request was made and required an order by Emily O&#8217;Reilly to the HSE to release the information. O&#8217;Reilly said she encountered &#34;misleading [...]]]></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>Consumer Watchdog Stays in its Kennel</title>
		<link>http://journalist.ie/2010/04/consumer-watchdog-stays-in-its-kennel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Newspaper Man: Earlier this year we reported on the average €18,000 a month the National Consumer Agency is spending on PR with Q4 PR.There are NCA staff who are unhappy the agency is spending so much on PR especially at a time when it has low staff numbers and those staff are no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking MCD&#8217;s Highway to Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tighe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Newspaper Man: The public won&#8217;t be getting to hear most of the detail of the fall-out from last year&#8217;s complaints about MCD concerts because MCD have settled a High Court action taken against it by Sophie Ridley, its event controller.Judge Mary Laffoy agreed to strike out the case on consent of both parties on [...]]]></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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