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	<title>Carrie O'Hara</title>
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		<title>Carpe Diem Carrie O&#8217;Hara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In another attempt to kick start my creative juices and to shake me out of the rut I find myself in by every half -term I have rebranded the neglected and therefore ignored &#8216;Random Thoughts and Manic Moments of Carrie O&#8217;Hara&#8217; into Carpe Diem Carrie O&#8217;Hara and I am determined, reader free or otherwise to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=35&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse the self promotion&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrie is back&#8230;under not much of a guise at random thoughts and manic moments of Carrie O&#8230;just in case you wondered where the hell she went&#8230;.
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		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/excuse-the-self-promotion/</link>
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		<title>What makes great literature great? or Confessions of a chick lit lover.</title>
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I love words. I love books. I love reading.
 It is my way of escaping the world and it’s sometimes all too awful realities: within the pages of many novels I have found the man I’ve been searching for all my life, the NYC lifestyle I aspire to, the places I long to visit, the jobs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=31&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/what-makes-great-literature-great-or-confessions-of-a-chick-lit-lover/</link>
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		<title>The Crime and Punishment of the &#8216;Sons of Ulster&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This began life as a 365 blog but I realised that I wanted it to reach a broader audience (or perhaps just one more likely to comment): I&#8217;ve also been wanting to resurrect the pondering of Carrie for a while and hope that perhaps this will lead on to something bigger and better. I also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=30&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/the-crime-and-punishment-of-the-sons-of-ulster/</link>
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		<title>Are our leaders born to lead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ With the world (and smoothstonesinmyhand) entirely consumed with the race for the American presidency; as a very late comer to Fergal Keane&#8217;s Letter to Daniel and as someone with a passing interest in politics: I&#8217;ve recently been faced with a pertinent question. What makes someone want to lead? What propels these men and gloriously increasingly more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=24&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/are-our-leaders-born-to-lead/</link>
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		<title>Auld Lyne SIGH: Part Two or The faux pas of the socially inept.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about hating New Year&#8217;s Eve means that I&#8217;ll never be disappointed: at the very worst the evening can only reach my lowest of expectations; everything else is a bonus.
My new year&#8217;s eve in Dunfanaghy, in the beautiful wilderness that is Donegal almost defies description; but during each startling moment I was trying to capture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=25&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/auld-lyne-sigh-part-two-or-the-faux-pas-of-the-socially-inept/</link>
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		<title>Fleeing the nest&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today I did something truly terrible: I left home.
I had done it once before; as a very naive just turned 18 year old; taking off to the big city, well as big ad Belfast and the academic and social adventure that would be my three years at Queens. But I&#8217;d come home every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=21&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/fleeing-the-nest/</link>
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		<title>Auld Lyne SIGH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it happened by text today: the inevitable question: What are you doing for New Year&#8217;s Eve? I ignored the question&#8230;the friend in question text back telling me that: ignoring it doesn&#8217;t make it go away &#8230;and to get back to her when I got over myself.
I hate New Year&#8217;s Eve with a passion and with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=19&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/auld-lyne-sigh/</link>
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		<title>My New York love affair&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been no blogs of significance in a while, I wanted to wait for the stardust to settle. I wanted to wait for the blues to past which took much longer than anticipated. I also wasn&#8217;t completely convinced that &#8216;My trip to New York&#8217; would work as a blog: I mean how interested are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carrieohara.wordpress.com&blog=1939199&post=18&subd=carrieohara&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/my-new-york-love-affair/</link>
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		<title>And yes is the answer&#8230;well maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrie (Queen of the Random Comment) is now also to be found at carrieohara365: a daily rant of both the miraculous moments and moments of madness in the life of North Down singleton&#8230;
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		<link>http://carrieohara.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/and-yes-is-the-answerwell-maybe/</link>
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