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	<title>The Mire &#187; Dermot Ahern</title>
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		<title>Country counts Halloween cost as politicians run amok</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dermot Ahern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country was this morning counting the cost after a weekend of savage debauchery as gangs of Government ministers, TDs and their aides ran riot.
A Garda spokesman told of scenes of public indecency, assaults on the moral fibre of the nation and bizzarre and inappropriate use of fireworks as the elected representatives drove decent people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diggers to be impounded in vacant hotels and shops to avert atm crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern is to introduce emergency legislation to impound all diggers and other plant machinery in an effort to put a stop to the recent spate of atm robberies using stolen diggers.
&#8220;There is no place in  society for these menacing machines,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have no legitimate purpose as there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lenihan claims tree stump depicts Kathleen ni Houlihan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cowen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unprecedented pressure the Government is under finally led to a split in the Cabinet yesterday when a fistfight broke out between Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan after Mr Lenihan insisted that the tree stump in Rathkeale, Co Limerick, which is alleged to depict the Virgin Mary and infant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinet concern as &#8216;God&#8217; and &#8216;Country&#8217; square off</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rift between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has widened after Mr Ahern refused to leave his vigil at the tree stump in Rathkeale in Limerick to attend a meeting with Mr Cowen over the President&#8217;s council of state meeting.
The Taoiseach sent Mr Ahern and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan to Rathkeale earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taoiseach banks on tree stump to save economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has just learned that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has asked the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan to drop everything and go directly to Rathkeale in Limerick where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared as an outline in a tree stump.
The two senior Government ministers have been briefed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cowen fears &#8216;a very Mirish coup&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/cowen-fears-a-very-mirish-coup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[directing criminal gang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has learned that a major row has erupted between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Justice Minister Dermot Ahern over legislation to criminalise the act of directing a criminal gang. The Taoiseach fears that the legislation could be used to remove him from office.
&#8220;Mr Cowen is worried that the legislation introduced by Mr Ahern could [...]]]></description>
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