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  • The racing was allowed to carry on and, 146 years since the first meeting at Laytown Racecourse, the event goes from strength to strength -- the Guinness flows, the music plays and hooves thunder in the sand.

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  • Although Clinton tried to keep the focus on Afghanistan, her attendance at the conference with a senior Iranian official marked the first such meeting involving the two countries as the Obama administration seeks greater engagement with Iran.

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  • Geraghty had tasted the other side of the racing coin at the 2002 meeting when despite picking up his first Festival winner on Moscow Flyer in the Arkle, he was handed a 12-day ban for his ride on Magnus.

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  • The need to avoid complacency is a regular theme at every Davos meeting - but this was the first in five years that there seemed a genuine risk of it breaking out.

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  • But when Bill invited me to escort him to the castle for his first meeting with Audin, I jumped at the opportunity.

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  • At its first meeting yesterday, the Government's democratic council decided to bring forward new legislative proposals before the summer adjournment, on two issues which have been the subject of constructive cross-party discussion.

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  • Some of the first images were shown at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston.

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