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Thread #74917   Message #1310507
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
29-Oct-04 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: New nationality - 'British-Irish'
Subject: RE: BS: New nationality - 'British-Irish'
No, no, not Margaret Hassan - you're behind the times, McGrath. I'm talking about an Armagh woman kidnapped in Afghanistan. I see that today the BBC is referring to her as a Northern Irish woman; yesterday they used "British-Irish", and the US papers have picked up this misapprehension.

Here's today's version

and yesterday's