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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Smith Wesson tops list of Massachusetts 100 best companies

    View results Gunmaker Smith & Wesson tops the list of best businesses in bright blue Massachusetts - after not making the list at all last year - a new report in the Boston Globe found.The 161-year-old company, based in a state with some of the stricter gun control laws in the nation, tried to diversify its holdings by acquiring a security company in recent years, only to do an ...

  • APNewsBreak LL Bean keeping it in the family

    FREEPORT, Maine -; L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as company chairman after more than 50 years as chairman or CEO, but the privately held company is keeping the position in the ...

  • Anti-abortion activists protest at Taoiseach’s attendance at Boston College

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny visited a memorial in Copley Square near the finish line of the Boston Marathon to lay flowers today. Photograph: ...


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Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Note: This essay contains spoilers and reveals the films ending, so if you have not seen it already, proceed with caution. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the lower rung of the Italian film industry was a veritable factory in the low-budget horror rip-off trade, shamelessly ... ...

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  • Boston cardinal skips commencement over Irish PMs role

    BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has skipped Boston College's commencement because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports of a bill in his country that would allow abortion. A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during Monday morning's graduation ceremony. They held signs with messages that included: ...

  • Bulger prosecutors object to giving informant ID

    BOSTON -- Prosecutors in the trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger have objected to a defense request to provide the name of a confidential informant Bulger's lawyers hope can help undermine the credibility of two key witnesses against Bulger.Bulger's lawyers asked the judge to order prosecutors to turn over the name of the informant mentioned in an FBI report from ...

  • Gov. Deval Patrick becomes a grandpa

    Gov. Deval Patrick welcomed his first grandchild today, little Gianluca Noah Patrick Morgese.Weighing 2 pounds, 8 ounces, Gianluca was born two months early, but both the baby and mother are doing well, Patrick’s press office said.The boy is the son of Patrick’s older daughter, Sarah Baker Patrick Morgese, who gave birth this morning in San Francisco."Poppy and Nonna (aka the ...

  • Gas prices in RI climb 2 cents

    AAA Southern New England said Monday the latest gas survey shows the average cost of a gallon of regular, self-serve in Rhode Island is $3.57, up from ...

  • Boyfriend arraigned in Eastern students killing

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A Bridgeport man has been arraigned on murder and kidnapping charges in the killing of an Eastern Connecticut State University ...

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