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Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

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Nick Clooney
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 13
Journalist
Television Presenter
Writer
Maysville
Kentucky
Nicholas Joseph Clooney
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