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# Michael Collins

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'It belongs in the bin': Expanding Cork city has potential to be destructive across rural Ireland say TDs
Rural TDs fear expanding Cork city would set a dangerous precedent in councils across the country.
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Oct 21st 2017, 9:45 AM
Michael Collins 'would not be happy' with suggestions Ireland follow Britain out of EU
MEP Seán Kelly said it is “daft” to suggest Ireland should make itself economically dependent on the UK again.
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Jul 8th 2017, 6:50 AM
18 observations every Irish person makes when they're watching Michael Collins
“Jonathan Rhys Meyers you little shit”
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Jun 25th 2017, 9:00 PM
Ireland's biggest movie studio is up for sale, but developers won't be allowed build houses there
Wicklow’s Ardmore Studios, previously home to films like Michael Collins, is up for sale.
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Feb 12th 2017, 7:00 AM
Leo Varadkar: "I foresee a united Ireland at some point in the future"
Minister Leo Varadkar was giving his speech at the Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith commemoration in Glasnevin cemetery today.
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Aug 21st 2016, 1:01 PM
"It's a bear pit" - 100 days in, our newest TDs talk the hours, income, and oddities that come with Dáil life
There are a huge amount of first-time TDs in the 32nd Dáil. Here’s how they’ve been finding life in their new home.
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Jun 5th 2016, 8:30 AM
Dáil to vote for Taoiseach for the fourth time tomorrow
Some independent TDs are unhappy that certain items have been omitted from the draft document for government.
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May 5th 2016, 3:40 PM
14 very Irish tweets about Michael Collins last night
The whole country was watching.
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Mar 17th 2016, 9:19 AM
Neil Jordan: 'The kind of movies I'm known for making, they don't make them anymore"
We speak to the Oscar-winning director about Michael Collins, 20 years on.
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Feb 26th 2016, 8:00 PM
This Alan Rickman story from the set of Michael Collins is just so Irish
Dev, ye bollix.
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Jan 14th 2016, 6:20 PM
Fan's tricolour depicts Jon Walters as another great Irish leader
The Stoke City man is dressed in full uniform as Michael Collins.
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Dec 11th 2015, 1:19 PM
9 very Irish cocktails every Irish person needs to try at least once
“One Mai Tai Baiii, please.”
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Nov 26th 2015, 12:09 PM
"We're going 'mother of God, how are we going to survive in this country?'"
Actor Michael Collins speaks to us about Traveller life in Ireland, and his latest role.
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Oct 24th 2015, 10:00 PM
A Dublin home used by Michael Collins as a safe house is for sale...
And it’s really very swanky.
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Oct 15th 2015, 12:34 PM
These Irish fans pulled off a prank on the big screen before the rugby match in London
Would Michael Collins and Padraig Pearse please make their way to lost and found?
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Sep 27th 2015, 4:26 PM
Poll: Is too much being done to commemorate the 1916 Rising?
A commemorative event was held in west Cork for Michael Collins yesterday.
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Aug 24th 2015, 9:23 AM
Michael Collins would've been too young to run for president. Welcome to #PresRef
Yes vote campaigners say that age is no measure of experience.
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May 4th 2015, 6:30 PM
The government is going to buy the historic Moore Street site
Numbers 14-17 Moore Street have been designated as a site for a Commemorative Centre.
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Mar 31st 2015, 7:15 PM
Leo: Gerry Adams has quite an opinion of himself
“This is a man who likes to compare himself to Mandela, he is now comparing himself to Michael Collins.”
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Nov 13th 2014, 9:42 AM
Gerry Adams's gunpoint comments 'a barely concealed threat to the modern media'
The Sinn Féin president will not withdraw remarks made at a fundraising dinner in New York last week.
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Nov 12th 2014, 3:43 PM
Blood-soaked hands of Michael Collins in Young Fine Gael recruitment poster is 'satire'
The poster is a take-off of the popular Netflix drama House of Cards.
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Sep 15th 2014, 4:57 PM
Grand nieces of Michael Collins present his death mask to museum
A ceremony was held at the Cathal Brugha Barracks yesterday to mark Collins’ death in 1922.
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Aug 23rd 2014, 2:49 PM
Public urged to join "ramped up" Michael Collins commemoration today
The event will be the first attended by the Defence Forces in recent decades.
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Aug 17th 2014, 7:30 AM
'Bombshell' Fianna Fáil split in Limerick after election success
Four councillors have broken away from the party, meaning it no longer has a majority across the city and county council.
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May 30th 2014, 3:10 PM
Video column: The Writer – the life and work of Tim Pat Coogan
As part of a series of interviews with Dubliners, journalist Eoin Lynch and photographer Deirdre Brennan speak to writer and journalist Tim Pat Coogan.
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May 18th 2014, 7:30 PM
The REAL story of the assassination of Michael Collins
Everything you know is a lie.* (*Not really)
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May 4th 2014, 12:30 PM
Video: Watch Michael Collins address a crowd before it gets broken up by gunshots
Collins gives an impassioned speech before shots are fired and some fights break out.
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Apr 20th 2014, 10:15 AM
Seven life-sized roadside posters of Michael Collins stolen in Kilkenny
The chairperson of the Kilkenny Musical Society said feelings on this time in Irish history still run high in certain quarters.
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Mar 25th 2014, 9:45 PM
Charming video asks people to name their favourite Irish film
Into The West? Michael Collins? The Snapper? We can’t decide.
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Mar 4th 2014, 2:32 PM
'Insulting, offensive, quite outrageous': Sinn Féin criticised over Smithwick response
The party is under pressure this morning over its response to the report of the Smithwick Tribunal which found collusion over the murder of two RUC officers by the IRA.
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Dec 5th 2013, 9:54 AM
Defence Forces celebrate birthday of Michael Collins
Visitors to the barracks in Cork will have an opportunity to see armoured fighting vehicles including the ‘Sliabh na mBan’, which accompanied Collins at the Béal na mBláth ambush in 1922.
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Oct 16th 2013, 7:15 AM
Fury in Cork as brochure calls Michael Collins a 'langer'
The brochure with the reference to the Irish revolutionary leader has since been withdrawn from circulation.
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Oct 1st 2013, 10:57 AM
Defence Forces unveils memorial to Michael Collins
On the anniversary of his death, Collins’ grand-niece unveiled the memorial and placed a wreath.
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Aug 22nd 2013, 2:40 PM
Michael Collins' heartbreak and naivety explored in new documentary
The final journey of the ‘big fella’ is travelled by the RTÉ broadcaster John Creedon in a programme to be shown this evening.
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Jul 21st 2013, 8:15 AM
Senators insists Ireland IS a tax haven, despite ambassador’s letter
Carl Levin and John McCain have dismissed the Irish ambassador’s account of Ireland’s corporate tax system.
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May 31st 2013, 5:01 PM
Fran from Love/Hate is back... in this new Irish movie
The first clip from King of the Travellers shows a sulky race on Dublin streets.
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Mar 11th 2013, 10:04 AM
Liam Neeson awarded freedom of his home town Ballymena
The 60-year-old says despite his globetrotting and international fame, he remains “99.9 per cent Ballymena”.
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Jan 28th 2013, 8:14 PM
Hillary Clinton returns to work, to meet with American ambassador to Ireland
Following a series of health problems including a blood clot in her head, the US Secretary of State has a full schedule this week ahead of her departure later this month.
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Jan 7th 2013, 10:27 AM
First Irish TV, Titanic, a famous ceiling: the big anniversaries of 2012
The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.
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Dec 26th 2012, 7:47 PM
Free State came into being 90 years ago this week
Flashback to the turbulent beginning of Saorstát Éireann, which was hurtling towards civil war even as it gained statehood.
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Dec 9th 2012, 7:45 AM
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