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The Kanchipuram priest scandal acts as another eye opener for the hypocrisies that lie behind the faade of celibacy and piety in the places of worship. A priest in Kanchipuram was arrested for indulging in sexual activities in the temple precincts and capturing them live on video. What makes the whole scenario even worse is that all this would take place even while unsuspecting devotees would be outside the temple, waiting to pay their respects and perform puja.

Today is St Patrick’s Day – a day the Irish and non-Irish alike around the world celebrate together over pints of green beer and Guinness and share a yarn, a sing-along, and, ultimately, a hangover!

The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in U.K. and Irish markets today. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from the last market close.

They were two heinous crimes from the 1980s — Douglas Hodgkin raped and murdered a pregnant college student and Michael David Graham stalked and killed his ex-wife — yet one was released and the other allowed to take another step toward freedom.Hodgkin was granted parole last month, pending certain conditions. Gov. Haley Barbour suspended Graham’s sentence last year. Those cases were the impetus for legislation passed Thursday in the Mississippi Senate to make it more difficult for felons to be released from prison.

No discussion of Irish drama is complete without Sean O'Casey's almost photographically real pictures of Irish tenement life. The late Professor J.W. Cunliffe of Columbia University went so far as to say that O'Casey was "the greatest discovery since World War I, not only of the Abbey Theater but of European drama."

The Southern Poverty Law Center released a bombshell of a report last month entitled “The Nativist Lobby, Three Faces of Intolerance.” The report is a bombshell because it ties three leading “immigration reduction” groups to a single founder with racist and extremist views: John Tanton. It rips off any mainstream façade these groups have carefully created.The groups — Federation for American Immigration Reform, Center for Immigration Studies and NumbersUSA — are darlings of the mass media.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces and a city under emergency rule
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/24/world/international-us-philipp...

Michael Vick was released from federal custody on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
Recommendation:
The next phase for Vick's re-entry into the NFL will now be a face-to-face meeting with commissioner Roger Goodell, though it does not appear that a meeting has yet been scheduled.

Erin Go Bragh (also sometimes: Erin Go Braugh) is the Anglicization of a Gaelic phrase used to express allegiance to Ireland.It is most often translated as "Ireland Forever", and pronounced.