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http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/nov/02/revealed-trafficked-migrant-workers-abused-in-irish-fishing-industry Long, but worth a read. "We have identified undocumented migrant workers employed in breach variously of safety, employment and immigration regulations on visits to...

Football hipsters of the PROC - don your Portugal 1984 replica jerseys, crack open a bottle of unpronouncable German beer, and drop some names for the Copa do Mundo. Who should the self-respecting hipster deign to follow this time around? Obvious candidates for hipster love: Chile - Bielsema...

Mikhail, that is - he's died, aged 94. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013

Congratulations to the animals. I'm bloody disappointed, but credit where it's due. Kerry weren't amazing, but they were much craftier than us, and nullified a lot of our strengths. And they won without arguably their best player (Donaghy) as well. Fair play.

Pudgee, what's all this about? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1966254,00.html You have a link to the article she's talking about? Is Hitchens talking bollocks, or is it a witty exercise in wummery?

Good or bad? Hot or not? Well, savants of the PROC? What maketh ye of it?

Republican civil war, that is... http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1749540,00.html Question - does anyone here think that Rice was wrong? That the US has made, if not thousands, than certainly a great mnay errors in post-war Iraq? Anyone?

Last Tuesday, Arsenal made a little bit of football history. London became the first city to provide three different semi-finalists in the Champion's Cup/League, the others being Spurs ('62), and Chelsea (the last two seasons). Which reminds of a question I discussed with some friends a while...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1746660,00.html Hopes this cheers you up, Tucker, after all your grousing about why Saddam wasn't being tried for his genoicde of the Kurds etc.

Anyone know any good new comedians? In Ireland or the UK, particularly? I'll start with Chris Addison - had a very good show in Edinburgh last year.

Anyone see McCoy Tyner at the Opera House yesterday? Rather impressive... pity about Charlie Haden's mob, though.