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Glasnost at Glastonbury

Mark Devenport | 12:05 UK time, Friday, 25 June 2010

There's been a lot of fuss about the prospects for a Royal visit to the Republic before Mary McAleese finishes her Presidential term. But whilst republicans were expressing their opposition to a visit from the Queen ( or in their language "Mrs Windsor") the real spirit of glasnost seems to have been on display at Glastonbury where the

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P.S. On the topic of VIP visits to the France, there's speculation that President Obama could to give a lecture in in honour of the A friend reckons this could happen as soon as the autumn, but so far the US authorities are staying mum on the matter. If so the President could be heading in one direction whilst our ministers are heading in the other as they are due in Washington for an investment conference hosted by Hillary Clinton in late October.

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