It seems even the Taoiseach is a fan of Ireland’s latest honorary son, Commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield. The 53 year old Canadian astronaut became famous by tweeting pictures of Earth while circling the planet on board the ISS. Chris earned his nick name ‘Green man in space’ after he tweeted “Tá Éire fíorálainn! Land of green hills and dark beer. With capital Dublin glowing in the Irish night”, becoming the first tweet sent as Gaeilge from space. Hadfield has built up almost one million followers on Twitter during his time on the ISS. His postings of

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The death of Margaret Thatcher roused the voices and opinions of many this week as the British nation divided in two. Thatcher was the longest reigning Prime-Minister of the 20th century and only female ever to hold office. Her regimes to improve levels of high unemployment backfired and instead resulted in hunger strikes, breakdown of families and general social unrest. She passed away in hospital earlier this week at the age of 87. Whilst some turned to hate websites and social media pages to ‘celebrate’ her death, others condemned such activity and instead reached out to the public to forgive

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