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# poignant - Thursday 7 February, 2013
Concern in China over number of single males
Even worse, these men – dubbed “bare branches” – are deemed to represent a danger to social stability.
Share30 Tweet# poignant - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Column: Why recovering my brother’s stolen bike meant so much
Colin Regan sent out an appeal on Facebook when his bicycle, which had belonged to his late brother Gordon, was stolen. The universe (and friends) conspired to reunite him with it just before Christmas.
Share675 Tweet33# poignant - Saturday 1 December, 2012
‘Baby boxes’: what they are, and why the UN wants them banned
Revival of medieval ‘foundling’ boxes in which abandoned babies were placed send “bad message to society”.
Share138 Tweet16# poignant - Sunday 11 November, 2012
PHOTOS: Enda Kenny lays wreath at Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen
It is the first time the leader of the Republic of Ireland has attended a ceremony in Northern Ireland on Remembrance Sunday.
Share17 Tweet31# poignant - Saturday 10 November, 2012
A snapshot of the Irish in World War I
The National Archives has digitised the wills of 9,000 soldiers killed in action during the Great War.
Share102 Tweet71# poignant - Friday 6 July, 2012
Statelessness: 12 million people do not have a nationality
“I am like a bird with nowhere to rest on the ground but which can’t spend his whole life in the sky.” – Yasser, stateless.
Share17 Tweet89# poignant - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
Documentary to chronicle human dramas at Dublin airport
TV3 six-parter will capture the arrivals and departures, reunions and separations at airport which saw 18.7 million people pass through it last year.
Share16 Tweet16# poignant - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
This is where the Titanic was at this time exactly 100 years ago
Interactive map shows that the ship would have been off the southwestern coast of Ireland, having left Cobh at 1.30pm on this day in 1912.
Share12 Tweet40# poignant - Monday 28 November, 2011
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