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 <title>Vote for Concern!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lovebox.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lovebox.org.uk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; is a new website that has created a &amp;ldquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://lovebox.org.uk/about_us.php "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;digital wristband to help raise money and awareness for different charities around the world via the web&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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 <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Kenyan slum crisis: video</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rural Kenyan is suffering from drought, climate change and approaching famine. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/brink-famine-kenya"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; for a full report. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>The champions! </title>
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 <description>&lt;p class="rtecenter"&gt;&lt;img height="176" align="middle" width="500" src="/sites/concern.net/files/images/blogs/Tom_Dunne_Myles_McCormick_Ben_Lennon_Matthew_Taylor_James_Esses_and_Diarmuid_Curraoin.JPG" &lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>A marathon effort</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img height="239" align="middle" width="500" src="/sites/concern.net/files/images/blogs/concern_runners.JPG" alt="Concern's marathon team 2009: Niall Palmer-Sheehan, Peter Cruddas, James Fegan, Jared Cope, Tony Wright, Sally Higginson and Stacey Harrison" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Sunday 26 April, 13 dedicated runners took on the challenge of   a lifetime &amp;ndash; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the London   Marathon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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 <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Piracy on Somali seas</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: &lt;/strong&gt;Concern&amp;rsquo;s Overseas Director, Paul O&amp;rsquo;Brien, was interviewed on the &amp;ldquo;This Week&amp;rdquo; programme on &lt;a href="http://www.rte.ie/"&gt;RTE&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. Listen to the programme &lt;a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0419/thisweek_av.html?2527912,null,209"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/piracy-somali-seas" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NiallOMurchusBlog/~4/UYoKI-vNVFg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>New site: maps and tags </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Our new site has been online now for a few days. So far, the feedback has been fairly positive.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Our new site</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;As I&amp;rsquo;m sure you&amp;rsquo;ve noticed, we&amp;rsquo;ve just launched a new website. Why? Well, we had outgrown the old one really.&lt;/p&gt;

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 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Let them eat (Fairtrade) cake!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;What a fitting end to Fairtrade Fortnight. After much &lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/get-active-blog"&gt;talk of Fairtrade bananas and the Velvet Underground&lt;/a&gt;, Concern staff in Dublin today marked the occasion with a baking competition.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/let-them-eat-fairtrade-cake" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NiallOMurchusBlog/~4/7E7e-xmA2P4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Dublin: recession busting bargains</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;A good bargain is just what&amp;rsquo;s needed to dispel the ever-present gloom of the recession.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/dublin-recession-busting-bargains-0" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NiallOMurchusBlog/~4/ChmLcHl_fAo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Electricity in Afghanistan: video</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Until now, many villages in northern Afghanistan have had no dependable electricity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.concern.net/blogs/posts/electricity-afghanistan-video" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NiallOMurchusBlog/~4/4wzRPBwIBzw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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