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John & Yoko’s Yen for Peace in Ireland

By Brian Dooley
January 2000

September 24, 2021 by Leave a Comment

John Lennon stood at the corner of 45th Street and 5th Avenue in New York City and faced the rally. About 5,000 people had gathered that February morning in 1972 to protest the massacre of 13 unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry on Bloody Sunday the week before. "Any government that doesn't allow demonstrations like this should be put away," he told the cheering crowd, … [Read more...] about John & Yoko’s Yen for Peace in Ireland

The U.S. could learn from Ireland how to handle COVID-19

April 3, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Niall O'Dowd, Publisher Ireland appears to have done a remarkable job holding infection and death numbers down from the coronavirus..  As of Thursday, this week they had under 100 fatalities and 3,900 infections.  The experts had suggested the Irish would have 15,000 infected by the end of March with death numbers as high as 500. What have … [Read more...] about The U.S. could learn from Ireland how to handle COVID-19

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