| Dublin Port Tunnel Dublin Port Tunnel (Tollán Calafoirt Bhaile Átha Cliath in Irish) is a road traffic tunnel in Dublin, Ireland, that forms part of the M50 motorway. The twin tunnels form a two-lane dual carriageway connecting Dublin Port, which lies to the east of central Dublin, and the M1 motorway close to Dublin Airport. The tunnels are 4.5€752The tunnel was officially opened on 20 December 2006 by then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern however it was initially only open to HGVs. It was opene Dublin_Port_Tunnel
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| Dublin Port Dublin Port () is Ireland's biggest sea port. It has both historical and contemporary economic importance. Approximatively two-thirds of the Republic of Ireland's port traffic goes via Dublin Port. Recently, the port and its land, mostly at the eastern end of Dublin's Northside, were valued at €25 billion - €30 billion. Dublin_Port
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| Jim Walsh (politician) Jim Walsh (fl. c. 2000) is an Irish politician and member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann for Fianna Fáil. He was elected by the Agricultural Panel. He was first elected to the Seanad in 1997.Jim Walsh lives in New Ross, County Wexford, and since 1974 he has been a member of New Ross Urban District Council (now New Ross Town Council), serving as Chairperson for eight terms. Jim_Walsh_(politician)
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| Home Nations Home Nations (often written as the common noun home nations) is a collective term used to refer to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (which together form the United Kingdom). It is most commonly heard in sporting contexts. The term Home Countries, not to be confused with the "home counties", is also sometimes used. Home_Nations
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| The Den (television) The Den (first broadcast 29 September 1986) is the children's television strand on RTÉ Two in Ireland. It has been presented by a number of well-known names in Ireland, including Ian Dempsey and Ray D'Arcy, both of whom now present morning shows with the radio station Today FM. The_Den_(television)
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| Dublin Zoo Dublin Zoo (), in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland is the largest zoo in Ireland and one of Dublin's most popular attractions. Founded in 1830, it is the fourth oldest scientific zoo in the world, after Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, London Zoo, and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The zoo describes its role as conservation, study, and education. Its stated mission is to “work in partnership with zoos worldwide to make a significant contribution to the conservation of the endangered species on Earth". Dublin_Zoo
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| ID Two iD Two (previously iD) was a programming strand on RTÉ Two which ran from 17The Den. It aired between 2002 and 2005. It was targeted at the teenage audience, and served as a container for The Simpsons, Home and Away and other imported programmes.Presented by Laura Woods and Steve Curran, the programme used modern graphics, fast movement between scenes and other ploys to attract and keep young viewers. ID_Two
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| Damien Rice Damien Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish rock singer. O in 2002, and 9 in 2006. Damien_Rice
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| Irish wikipedians' notice board/Archive01 Wikipedia:Irish_wikipedians'_notice_board/Archive01
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| Alistair Cragg Alistair Ian Cragg is an international track and field athlete who was born in Johannesburg on 13 June, 1980, and brought up in South Africa and has since lived in England and Fayetteville, Arkansas where he attended the University of Arkansas. He races for Ireland and competes most often over 3,000 and 5,000 metres. Alistair_Cragg
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| Prime Time Prime Time is the major news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland. It is broadcast regularly on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights (reducing to once a week in the summer) between 21Internet from the RTÉ website, with episodes dating back a number of years. Prime_Time
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| Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien, (born 19 April 1958 in County Cork), is an Irish entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982 and holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. Denis_O'Brien
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| RTÉ News: One O'Clock RTÉ News is an Irish television news bulletin by RTÉ News and Current Affairs. The programme is broadcast Monday-Friday at 13RTÉ One TV channel. It can also be watched in full as a RealPlayer video stream from its associated Internet webpage and via RTÉ News Now.The bulletin was introduced in 1988 when RTÉ launched a new look to its schedules on RTÉ One including the hour long RTÉ Six-One News. Before 1988, programmes on RTÉ One did not begin until around 15 RTÉ_News:_One_O'Clock
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| RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock RTÉ News is RTÉ's main nightly news programme. It is the most watched news bulletin on Irish television. RTÉ_News:_Nine_O'Clock
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| Munster Rugby Munster Rugby (more commonly known as Munster) is an Irish professional rugby union club based in Munster, that competes in the Magners League and Heineken Cup. IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union in the Irish province of Munster and a number of junior clubs. Munster_Rugby
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| Leinster Rugby Leinster Rugby (more commonly known as Leinster) is an Irish professional rugby union team based in the Irish Province of Leinster, that competes in the Magners League and Heineken Cup. The team represents the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch which is one of four branches of the IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union in the Irish province of Leinster. Leinster_Rugby
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| Sarah Purser Sarah Purser (22 March 1848 - 7 August 1943) was an Irish artist. She was born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) in County Dublin, and raised in Dungarvan, County Waterford. She was educated in Switzerland and afterwards studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Sarah_Purser
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| Luke Kelly Luke Kelly, (17 November 1940 - 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band The Dubliners. Luke_Kelly
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| Ronnie Drew Ronald Drew (Irish) 16 September 1934 Irish singer and folk musician who achieved international fame during a fifty year career recording with The Dubliners. He was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin. Ronnie_Drew
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| Carrickmacross Carrickmacross
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| Graiguenamanagh Graiguenamanagh (Gráig na Manach, meaning "Village of the monks", in Irish), also spelled Graignamanagh, is a town in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located on the R705 regional road by the border with County Carlow on the River Barrow at the foot of Brandon Hill. Graiguenamanagh
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| Newcastle West Newcastle_West
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| CRH plc CRH is also the acronym for Irish company Celtic Resources Holdings plc, a mining companyCRH plc, (, , , ), is an Irish building material group, formerly called Cement-Roadstone Holdings plc. It is quoted on the Official Lists of the Irish Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange. CRH_plc
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| George Shiels George Shiels (24 June 1881 - 19 September 1949) was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passing Day, and The New Gossoon. George_Shiels
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| Michael Scott (architect) Michael Scott (24 June 1905 – 24 January 1989) was an Irish architect whose buildings included the Busáras building in Dublin, the Abbey Theatre, and Tullamore Hospital.He was born in Drogheda in 1905. His family originated in the Province of Munster. His father, William Scott, was a school inspector from near Sneem on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. His mother was from County Cork. Michael was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin. Michael_Scott_(architect)
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| Hugh Leonard Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote more than 18 plays, two volumes of essays and two autobiographies, one novel and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column. Hugh_Leonard
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| Richie Baker Richie Baker (born April 17 1980 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer currently playing for FAI League of Ireland First Division club Shelbourne. Baker primarily plays a right-sided winger. Richie_Baker
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| Mark McCabe Mark_McCabe
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| Podge and Rodge Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy ( b.1941) are the two central characters on A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult comedy televised puppet show and more recently The Podge and Rodge Show, a chat show in the same vein. The characters were created and are performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara, who also created and perform the characters of Zig and Zag and Bronx Bunny and Teddy T. Podge_and_Rodge
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| Ray D'Arcy Ray_D'Arcy
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| You're a Star You're a Star was a singing contest in Ireland, created by Screentime ShinAwiL and Radio Telefís Éireann. It was shown weekly on RTÉ One over the winter months of each year. The show was broadcast live from The Helix theatre in Dublin City University.The show was originally designed to select the Irish Eurovision Song Contest entrant, but this idea was abandoned in September 2005. The show was cancelled after the 2008 season. You're_a_Star
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| Rylane Rylane Cross (Reighleán an Rince in Irish language) is a village in County Cork, Ireland. The town is roughly midway between Millstreet and Cork city, north of Macroom. The town gained notice in August 2008, when a fight between three men resulted in a dead and injured person. Rylane
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| Comfort in Sound Comfort in Sound was the fourth album by the British Rock band Feeder. It was released on October 21, 2002 on The Echo Label, and was the first album to be released after Jon Lee's death.The album received many high scoring reviews, and a year later helped them win "Best British Band" at the Kerrang! awards. Comfort_in_Sound
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| Willie O'Dea Willie O'Dea (; born 27 November 1952), is an Irish politician who is a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Limerick East. Formerly a Minister of State he is currently the Minister for Defence. Willie_O'Dea
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| Poses (album) Poses is the second studio album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through DreamWorks Records in June 2001. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Pierre Marchand, with select tracks produced by Propellerheads' Alex Gifford ("Shadows"), Ethan Johns ("California"), Damian LeGassick ("The Tower of Learning"), and Greg Wells ("Across the Universe"). Poses_(album)
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| Richie Foley For the fictional cartoon character, please see Gear (Static Shock).Richard 'Richie' Foley (born 1988) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Abbeyside, at collegic level with University College Cork and with the Waterford senior inter-county team. Foley usually plays at either midfield or in the half-back line. Richie_Foley
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| Pet passport Pet Travel Scheme ("PETS") is a scheme which allows animals to travel easily between member countries without undergoing quarantine. A Pet Passport is a document that officially records information related to a specific animal, as part of that procedure. The effect is to drastically speed up and simplify travel with animals, and transport of animals, between member countries, compared to previous procedures, if the regulations are followed. Pet_passport
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| Martin McDonagh Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a contemporary Anglo-Irish playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Martin_McDonagh
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| Gerry Ryan (Gerard) Gerry Ryan (born 4 June 1956) is a veteran Irish radio and part-time television presenter employed by RTÉ. He presents a radio show, The Gerry Ryan Show on RTÉ 2fm on weekday mornings. Ryan has hosted several series of television shows, including Secrets, Gerry Ryan Tonight, Ryantown, Gerry Ryan's Hitlist and Operation Transformation. Gerry_Ryan
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| Single-payer health care Single-payer health care is a term used in the United States to describe the payment of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers from a single fund. It differs from typical private health insurance where, through pricing and other measures taken by the insurer, the level of risks carried by multiple insurance pools as well as the coverage can vary and the pricing has to be varied according to the contribution of risk added to the pool. Single-payer_health_care
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| Wanderly Wagon Wanderly Wagon was an Irish children's television series which aired on RTÉ from Saturday 30 September 1967 until 1982. Wanderly Wagon followed human and puppet characters as they travelled around Ireland visiting interesting cations, rescuing princesses and generally doing good. The original premise of the show expanded to follow the characters to magical lands of Irish mythology, and even into outer space. Wanderly_Wagon
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| Cork Harbour Cork Harbour is a natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland. It is one of several which lay claim to the title of "second largest natural harbour in the world by navigational area" (after Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia). Other contenders include Halifax Harbour in Canada, and Poole Harbour in England. Cork_Harbour
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| The Third Policeman The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written between 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and claimed he had lost it. At the time of his death in 1966, the book was still unpublished. It was finally published in 1967 by McGibbon & Kee. The_Third_Policeman
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| Celebrity Farm Celebrity Farm was a 2003 Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) reality television show, based on the international TV format The Farm, produced by Strix. Held along similar lines as I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Farm required eight of Ireland's C-List celebrities to spend seven days on a farm with one being voted off every evening (or "turfed out" as RTÉ called it). Celebrity_Farm
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| Seán Quinn Seán Quinn is an entrepreneur from Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and, as of 2008, the richest person in Ireland. He was born 5 December 1947, the son of a small farmer, and left school at 14 years of age. The Sunday Times Rich List 2008 estimated his personal worth to be €4.722 billion or Forbes magazine's 2008 Rich List listed him again as the richest person in Ireland, in 164th place amongst the wealthiest individuals in the world. Seán_Quinn
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| Wayne McCullough Wayne William McCullough (born 7 July 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a professional boxer. During his professional career, which spans back to 1993, he held the WBC world title in the Bantamweight category. Wayne_McCullough
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| Charles Haughey Talk:Charles_Haughey
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