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...He’d led a group of paramilitaries suspected of murdering up to 40 Catholics. Adair’s crimes were not in the dim, dark past....
...Fine Gael was the party of Michael Collins, Fianna Fáil claimed the mantle of Eamon de Valera....
...The IEA forecasts crude consumption to increase by 1.3mn barrels per day this year while Opec this week maintained its growth estimates of 2.25mn b/d for 2024....
...Its most powerful executive, Michael Milken, pitched “high-yield” bonds as an attractive alternative to debt issued by safer, investment-grade companies....
...Irish President Michael D Higgins led tributes to “one of music’s greatest lyricists”....
...They were believing that they’d been badly treated previously. They’d been badly paid. They’d been cheated on. That this was what they deserved and that only Daniel Kinahan could give it to them....
...“You’d think they’d have a lot more to be angry about than we have,” said Anna. Quite. One big factor is that stress in our personal lives doesn’t get left in the office revolving door....
...D Higgins....
...So the eight-year-old Eric decided he’d do the deed for which he’d been punished and set fire to the school. “I got rather frightened and I thought I’d better tell the headmaster,” Hebborn said....
...“There might be some that can push pricing,” said Michael Bradley, a partner at consultancy Veriten....
...Additional reporting by Michael O’Dwyer...
...Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, designerSans Départir by Diane de Beauvau-Craon I loved this memoir....
...Stonepeak has hired Michael Leitner as a senior managing director on its credit team, based in New York....
...How SVB f****d up Silicon Valley Bank trusted Goldman Sachs, and it got shot in the foot....
...King Charles later took part in a service of reflection at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, attended by UK prime minister Liz Truss, Ireland’s taoiseach Micheál Martin and Irish president Michael D Higgins...
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...In sentiments echoed by politicians of all sides across the region and in Ireland, Michael D Higgins, Ireland’s president, said Trimble had earned a “distinguished and deserved place in our history books...
...She grew up in rural Ireland, and wrote that, after the Bloody Sunday massacre, she’d have joined the IRA “in a heartbeat” if they’d have allowed her....
...MSD Partners, the private equity firm linked to computing billionaire Michael Dell, has lent to Burnley and Premier League rivals Southampton and West Ham....
...Finally, in keeping with today’s British flavour, I’d encourage UK politics junkies to sign up to my colleague, Stephen Bush’s Inside Politics newsletter....
...The film, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, came out just after the album, and it was a bummer....
...Even The Pogues, a band so sui generis that you’d think no one could copy them, spawned their own benighted genre — Irish-American folk punk, populated by the bafflingly popular likes of Dropkick Murphys...
...The father of four said he had been ignorant of the worst allegations against Epstein....
...One slogan of that era was il est interdit d’interdire — “it is forbidden to forbid”. When it was applied to sexual behaviour, children had no say in the matter....
...Wishart (brother); Douglas Garman (her uncle, who had a long affair with Peggy Guggenheim); and to Kathleen Garman, the collector, dealer and second wife of sculptor Jacob Epstein....
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