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		<title>April 12 1916 AD: Chocolate Egg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An event which is to shape the nation and indeed the world for generations to come takes place when a hen lays a chocolate egg in Swords. The hen&#8217;s owner, a modest Dublin farmer, attempts to hide the abomination from the eyes of Her Majesty&#8217;s Egg Inspector Royal by wrapping it in shiny paper and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 1 1777 AD: Messiah Of Airwaves Checks In</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Gogan is born. Sharing:]]></description>
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		<title>January 31 1966 AD: First Miniskirts Arrive In Longford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first shipment of mini skirts to hit the heartland of Ireland arrives at Mary&#8217;s Woolly Boutique in Longford Town. She is besieged by irate female patrons demanding their money back and complaining that not all of the item has been included. Luckily many local farmers find them snug neck warmers and financial disaster is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 30 1942 AD: Money Laundering Scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Athlone is hit by a money laundering crisis during the harsh economy of the War Years. To preserve scarce currency there are only fourteen pound notes and twenty-five 10 shilling notes in circulation in the state at the time. The crisis in Athlone occurs when due to over-fastidiousness on the part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 29 1724 AD: Worlds Largest Spindle Erected In Navan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eccentric landlord seeking to provide work for poor locals decides to erect the worlds largest spindle on a patch of land near Navan. It collapses within minutes causing massive destruction which is today known as Trim. The landowner, The Rt. Honourable John Ffoulkes-O&#8217;Reilly later achieves success and renown with the erection of the world&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 28 3027 AD &amp; 1985 AD: Fethard Futurists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fethard Futurists are formed and celebrate with a trip in their new time machine back to 1985. They are shocked to discover that Charles J. Haughey, on whom all major religions in the 31st Century are based , is not a flaxen haired goddess with a Sword of Truth and the Pomegranate of Vigour, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 27 1969 AD: Gardaí In Historic Acid Bust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gardai seize a container load of acid in Cork harbour. It is in the early days of drug policing and several men are badly burned during the operation. Sharing:]]></description>
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		<title>January 26 1923 AD: Fantastic Game Altogether</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hurling match takes place between two small Leinster clubs: The Roundwood Heroes and the prophetically named Padraig Pearse Invigilators. Hurleys and sliothars are in short supply and so the protagonists instead hurl the roots of ash trees indiscriminately at passers-by. This results in the lowest ever injury record at a hurling match with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 25 1973 AD: Brown Shoe Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the day on which a shortage of brown shoes reaches crisis proportions in many parts of Ireland. In Limerick schoolchildren are forced to go to school wearing badgers. Elsewhere individual County Councils cope as best they can. Some order the painting of schoolchildren&#8217;s feet with brown kreosote while one County Council brings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 24 1750 AD: Great Irish Luvvie Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dermot Carmody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great Irish Shakespearean actor Diarmuid Ó&#8217;Tooby dies on stage during a production of Hamlet in a tent in Killarney. Ó&#8217;Tooby had been the first Irishman to play Othello in a controversial production of Twelfth Night. Colleagues and family remark that the manner of his end is &#8220;Exactly how he would have wanted it except [...]]]></description>
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