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Four arrested in connection with cash-in-transit robbery in Crumlin

Three men and a woman are detained following incident outside post office in June

Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 23:05 Mark Hilliard

Four people are being held in Garda custody in connection with a cash-in-transit robbery in Dublin in June. The suspects, a woman in her 20s and three men, two aged in their 20s and one in his 50s, were arrested on Thursday. They are being detained under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1939, at various Garda stations in Dublin. The robbery took place on the afternoon of Thursday, June 3rd, outside a post office on the Old County Road in Crumlin.
At approximately 12.15pm a male armed with what appeared to be a firearm approached and threatened an employee transporting a cash box. The man fled the scene with the cash box and got into a Ford Focus car which subsequently drove at speed in the direction of Clonard Road. Nobody was injured and gardaí later recovered a vehicle which was then technically examined.

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The language of fairy tales and what they tell us

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The language of fairy tales and what they tell us

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Published on: 06 January 2020 Author: Cerrie Burnell

Cerrie Burnell has always been fascinated by fairy tales. Here, she explains why every culture has their own version of these stories, and why they continue to affect what we read today.

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(Russian fairy tale: Морозко)
When a king's wife died, he married a hideous widow with a daughter of her own and his new wife set him against his daughter. She begged to leave and seek her fortune, and he permitted it.
She goes on her way and sees an old man sitting on a stone. He tells her how to get through a hedge, and that she will find three golden heads in a well there, and should do whatever they tell her.
After she does so, one says she shall be beautiful, the next that she will have a sweet voice, and the third that she shall be fortunate and queen to the greatest prince that reigns.
A king sees her and falls in love with her. They marry and go back to visit her father. Her stepmother is enraged that her stepdaughter and not her daughter gained all this, and sent her daughter on the same journey. The daughter was rude to the old man, and slighted the three heads, and they curse her.
She goes on. A cobbler offers to cure her leprosy and voice if she will marry him, and she agrees.
Her mother, finding she had married a cobbler, hangs herself, and the king gives his stepdaughter's husband a hundred pounds to quit the court and live elsewhere.

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I like Veronica's news article because it has a structure like a real news article, and it's interesting too. It has all important facts and background. It is also very original. 100%!!!

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Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who were very unhappy because they had no children. But at last, a little daughter was born, and their sorrow was turned to joy. All the bells in the land were rung to tell the glad tidings.

The king gave a christening feast so grand that the like of it had never been known. He invited all the fairies he could find in the kingdom—there were seven of them—to come to the christening as godmothers. He hoped that each would give the princess a good gift.

When the christening was over, the feast came. Before each of the fairies was placed a plate with a spoon, a knife, and a fork—all pure gold. But alas! As the fairies were about to seat themselves at the table, there came into the hall a very old fairy who had not been invited. She had left the kingdom fifty years before and had not been seen or heard of until this day.

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At last the prince came to a chamber of gold, where he saw upon a bed the fairest sight one ever beheld—a princess of about seventeen years who looked as if she had just fallen asleep. Trembling, the prince knelt beside her, and awakened her with a kiss. And now the enchantment was broken.

The princess looked at him with wondering eyes and said: “Is it you, my prince? I have waited for you long.”

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The prince gave the princess his hand, and they all went into the great hall for supper. That very evening the prince and princess were married. The next day the prince took his bride to his father’s palace, and there they lived happily ever afterward.

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I have always loved the language of fairy tales and the way they command attention from the very first word: once. It might be ‘Once long ago on a night as dark as thunder.’ Or ‘Once there was a queen who was as cruel as winter.’ Or, most familiar of all, ‘Once upon a time...’ From the moment the sentence is spoken, a soft magic descends and everyone knows to suspend their disbelief and listen instead with their childhood heart, as something quite special is about to unfold.

Fairy tales are said to have begun as early as the 16th century and were short snippets of folklore, spoken out loud, depicting stories of great hardship, or wickedness that were resolved with an enchantment. They were distinguished from legends – stories which implied a notion of truth and were predominantly aimed at children, holding a poetic beauty and timelessness. In these legends, evil deeds or bleak circumstances were entwined with sentences that sang with hope.

In the fairy tale, no matter how terrible the situation faced by our protagonist, it is lightened by brief sprinkles of magic, heroic acts and often love. The glory of the fairy-tale villain is never long lived, their all-consuming darkness being balanced with the light of a kind deed or fairy godmother.

Fairy tales exist in every culture and language. They embolden our childhoods with a shared experience of storytelling, a brightening of our imaginations and an emotional response to literature. They are warnings learned from a safe distance. The action is always happening in a different time to our own, so the danger isn’t threatening.

Words & Word Combinations

·      to command attention - to make people listen to you or look at you

·      to suspend v - to delay something

·      to unfold v - to gradually make something known to other people

·      snippets n - small pieces of information or news

·      predominantly adv - mostly; mainly

·      bleak adj - not giving any reason to have hope or expect anything good

·      entwined adj - very closely involved or connected with something

·      to embolden v - to make somebody feel braver or more confident

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A merchant was attacked by robbers. A dog came to his aid and then brought him to his home until he recovered. The merchant offered to give him many marvels but the dog said that he wanted only the merchant's daughter. The merchant grieved, but he had agreed.
After a month, she wept because she wanted to visit her father. The dog said that she could, if she stayed no more than three days, but asked what she would call him there. She said "A great, foul, small-tooth dog," and he carried her back. A week later, they went again, and she called him "Sweet-as-a-Honeycomb," at the first stile, but "A great, foul, small-tooth dog," at the second, and he carried her back. A week after that, they set out again, and she called him "Sweet-as-a-Honeycomb" at the stiles. When they reached the merchant's home, he asked again, and she started to say "A great — " but thought on how kind he had been to her and said, "Sweeter-than-a-Honeycomb". He got up on his hind legs, shed his coat, and became a handsome young man, and they married.

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The Guardian's Three Little Pigs TV campaign was among the material honoured at this year's Cannes Lions awards. The campaign, by Bartle Bogle Hegarty London, won a gold lion in the Film category, one gold and five silver lions in the Film Craft category and a silver in the Titanium and Integrated category. Andrea Stillacci, one of the judges of the Film section, praised the campaign calling it very "today."

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I like Vlada's story, because it has a very relevant point which is child abuse. And I also like the ending and the justice

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(Russian fairy tale: Царевна-лягушка)
A spoiled princess befriends the Frog Prince, whom she met after dropping a golden ball into a pond under a linden tree, and he retrieves it for her in exchange for her friendship. The Frog Prince, who is under a fairy's spell, magically transforms back into a handsome prince.

The frog prince also has a loyal servant named Henry (or Harry) who had three iron bands affixed around his heart to prevent it from breaking in his sadness when his master got under a spell. When the frog prince reverts to his human form, Henry's overwhelming happiness causes all three bands to break, freeing his heart from its bonds.

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With the passing of time, the language of fairy tales has altered, so that readers of every age can still engage with the story. If we tried to read a fairy tale from a hundred years ago, we might grasp the meaning but the phrasing would seem peculiar.

I love that a fairy tale can pass through so many diverse societies and the language is able to capture the essence of enchantment, so the heart of the story prevails: the dark and the sorrow, the brilliance, and the utterly gorgeous and astonishing shoes, are still meaningful hundreds of years later. And the influence of fairy tales can still be found in brand-new books being published today.

Take any of your favourite books or well-loved children’s classics: Harry Potter, Peter Pan, Lemony Snicket's A series of Unfortunate Events, or Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials. You may consider these books to be very modern, or quintessentially British, but they all take inspiration from a legacy of storytelling that has woven its way through a myriad of times and cultures, making literature as powerful a part of our future as it is our history.

Much like the journey of how the first book came to be, and regardless of the language they began in, fairy tales are – and always have been – for everyone.

Words & Word Combinations

·      to alter v - to make somebody/something different; to change

·      to prevail v - to be accepted, especially after a struggle or an argument

·      quintesseltially adv - in a way that represents the perfect example of something

·      myriad n - an extremely large number of something

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(Russian fairy tale: Золотой башмачок)
A wealthy widower's beautiful young daughter is forced into servitude by her stepmother and her sisters, where she is made to work day and night doing menial chores.
One day, the prince invites all the young ladies in the land to a royal ball, planning to choose a wife. The two stepsisters taunt Cinderella by telling her that maids aren't invited to the ball.
As the two stepsisters and the stepmother depart to the ball, Cinderella cries in despair. Her Fairy godmother magically appears and immediately begins to transform Cinderella from house servant to the young lady she was by birth, all in the effort to get Cinderella to the ball.
She turns a pumpkin into a golden carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen.
She must however return before midnight. As one night, she forgets about the condition, her true looks slowly begin to reveal themselves and she tries to escape, leaving a shoe behind. Determined to find her, the prince sets out his men to look for a girl whose foot would fit the shoe. Once she is found, they marry and live happily ever after.

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Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia)

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Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka (Russia)

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Tired of the cruel mistreatment they endure from their wicked stepmother, who is also a witch, a brother and sister run away from home, wander off into the countryside, and spend the night in the woods. By morning, the boy is thirsty, so the children go looking for a spring of clear water. However, their stepmother has already discovered their escape and has bewitched all the springs in the forest. The boy is about to drink from one, when his sister hears how its rushing sound says "Whoever drinks from me will become a tiger (or lion)".
Desperately, the girl begs her brother not to drink from the spring, lest he transformed into a tiger and attacked her. So they continue on their way, but when they come to the second spring, the girl hears it say, "Whoever drinks from me will become a wolf". Again, she desperately tries to prevent her brother from drinking from it. Reluctantly, he eventually agrees to her pleas but insists he drink from the next spring they encounter. And so they arrive at the third spring, and the girl overhears the rushing water cry, "Whoever drinks from me will become a deer". But before she could stop her brother, he has already drunk from it, and turned into a deer.

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Patufet is usually represented as a very small child the size of a rice grain or a little garbanzo bean, wearing a big red barretina so that his parents can better spot him around the place. He is curious and mischievous, until one day he decides to show the world that he's useful and reliable. According to some versions Patufet was good-natured and hard-working from the beginning.
The first task he sets about to do is to go to the shop to buy some saffron. Since people can't see him because he's so small, he avoids being trodden on by singing,
The people he meets only see a coin that walks and sings but he manages to accomplish his task. Afterward, he decides to go to the farm fields to take lunch to his father. But Patufet is not lucky: when it starts to rain he takes refuge under a cabbage where he fell asleep; after this, he accidentally gets eaten by an ox.
His parents go about looking for him and he replies from inside the ox and the ox needs to fart in order for him to escape. After a while, they hear Patufet's little voice and his parents feed the ox with cabbages that make it fart faster.

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(Russian fairytale: Морской царь и Василиса Премудрая)
A queen gave birth to a son while the king was away, and not wanting to christen him until his father returned, decreed that he should be called Nix Nought Nothing (L: Nicht Nought Nothing) until that time. As the king journeyed home, a giant offered to help him over a river in return for "Nix Nought Nothing," and the king, not knowing that he had a son by this name, agreed. When he learned what he had done, the king tried to give the giant the hen-wife's son, and then the gardener's son, but both of the boys betrayed their origin, and the giant killed them. In the end the royal couple had to give the prince to the giant.
The giant had a daughter, and she and the prince grew very fond of each other. The prince and the giant's daughter decided to flee. The giant chased after them. The girl dashed a magic flask, which produced a wave that drowned the giant
The giant's daughter was too weary to go on, and sent Nix Nought Nothing on ahead of her to the king's castle. But the hen-wife whose son had died cursed him, and he fell into a deep slumber as soon as he arrived at the castle. The king and queen still did not recognize their grown son, and the king promised that whichever maiden can awaken the sleeping man shall marry him.
After learning from the hen-wife a counteracting spell to ward off his sleepiness for as long as she wished, the giant's daughter succeeds in waking the prince for a while, and securing the promised marriage. Meanwhile, the gardener, doing his own water chore, had discovered the giant's daughter up in the tree, and brought her inside his house, breaking the news that his daughter is to marry the stranger, and showed her Nix Nought Nothing.
The giant's daughter now sang her charm for her sleeping beloved to awaken, recalling all that she had done for him; it was to no avail. But she called him Nix Nought Nothing, and the king and queen learned that he was their own son. They made the gardener's daughter remove the spell and married Nix Nought Nothing to the giant's daughter.

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Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into an enormous beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant.
Outwitting the giant, Jack is able to retrieve many goods once stolen from his family, including a bag of gold, an enchanted goose that lays golden eggs and a magic golden harp that plays and sings by itself. Jack then escapes by chopping down the beanstalk. The giant, who is pursuing him, falls to his death, and Jack and his family prosper.

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These much-loved stories are part of our cultural heritage and are often the root from which classical children’s books have blossomed. They are a global phenomenon, having whispered their way around the world, incorporating multiple changes along the way.

For instance, Cinderella has its origins in Chinese culture, yet there are 500 different versions of Cinderella that have been found in Europe alone. In earlier translations, the fairy godmother takes the role of a fish, who grants Cinders her wishes. In another telling, there is no actual fairy godmother but a tree that has grown upon the grave of Cinders' mother. Cinders cries at the root, ‘watering the tree with her tears’, and the tree produces everything she needs: the dress, the coach, the shoes... Amazing! In an early French version, Cinderella is not a poorly treated parlour maid, but a highly gifted witch who is very pragmatic and has the ability to appear invisible and tame birds.

The version of the Cinderella tale that we know best also comes from France, where the description of the glass slippers was originally ‘pantoffles en vair’, which means ‘slippers of white squirrel fur.’ It's believed this was mistranslated or misheard as ‘pantoufle en verre’: slippers of glass. Hence, in our beloved version, Cinders goes to the ball in magnificent but highly unwearable glass high heels.

But this hardly matters. If anything, it adds to the wonder. Cinderella is going to the ball in a pumpkin coach. Nothing about that night is supposed to be real. In contrast to the cruelty she’s suffered, this is a night of extraordinary happenings and the glass slippers are simply a dazzling part of it.

And it’s that which I love best: the commitment to creating something gloriously spellbinding. The way the shoes appear, with the help of a magic wand, is startling, exquisite and joyously unbelievable. It almost doesn’t matter what the slippers are made from, if they are too grand or "out of reach" for seemingly normal people to ever own. I love that the translator mistook fur for glass without question. To me, white squirrel fur is as unexpected as glass. I wouldn’t imagine wearing either. Yet, both capture my imagination. Both flavour Cinderella’s special night with wonderment. Both are memorable for years to come, as a moment of absolute triumph.

Words & Word Combinations

·      it adds to the wonder - it makes something even more interesting or attractive

·      dazzling adj - impressing somebody very much

·      spellbinding adj - holding your attention completely

·      startling adj - extremely unusual and surprising

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Article based on "The Three Heads of the Well"

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Article based on "The Three Heads of the Well"

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Peasant girl exiled after queen kills herself

Sun, Nov 29, 2021, 11:28 Christina

King’s second wife found dead after news of her daughter’s marriage to cobbler made public

Last week’s news of the king’s oldest daughter being sent away from home with nothing but bread, cheese and beer have both sparked the public’s outrage and commanded the world’s attention. The princess, Colchester-born, was found several days later, already a queen - in a different kingdom. Adding to the wonder, the same king’s stepdaughter, apparently urged by her mother, was seen taking the same road. Now wife to a cobbler, who is believed to be the deciding factor in the queen’s death, she was exiled by the king himself yesterday.

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29.11.2021, 11:35am, Klim

Tiny human eaten by ox - gut activation was needed to remove

Tiny human escaping from abusive parents falls asleep exhausted in a cabbage near a barn. Happens to be a regular meal for a local ox. Woken up and crying for help, he manages to attract parents. Activation of digestive system was necessary to remove the victim.

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I really like Christine's story! It gives all the important information upfront and the structure is very clear

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Local boy turns into deer: sister shocked (Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka)

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Local boy turns into deer: sister shocked (Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka)

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November 29, 2021 / Marina
Alionushka and Ivanushka, two siblings abused by their stepmother, were punished with magic water. Orphans Alionushka and Ivanushka fleed home last week, after they were abused by their stepmother, the local witch. To punish the children she bewitched all the springs in the local forest. Although warned by his elder sister Alionushka Ivanushka drunk from one of the springs and turned into a deer. Ivanushka, who is now being examined by healthcare providers together with his sister, remains a witness in the child abuse case.

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Mon, Nov 29, 2021
A domestic abuse case in France: a widower's daughter forced into domestic slavery. Widower father is unsensible to the situation. The poor daughter's last resort is an attempt at fraud: with the help of the so-called Fairy grandmother, she sneaks her way into a private party only to make the host - the Prince - fall in love with her. Angry stepmother and sisters are in shock: "How unjust does this world want to be?"
Stay tuned, more news on our website: www.farfarawaydaily.com/news

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Kindness frees: animal control agrees.                                                            Mon, 29.11, 2021, 11:35 am, Nika. Strange breed of small tooth dog turns out to be a man with abusive tendencies towards another man's daughter. After robbing and blackmailing the father, he kidnaps her and keeps hostage. The victim however found a key to the abuser's heart. Kind words save him from animal control shelter. The new man now on trial for kidnapping, robbery and blackmail.           

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Kindness frees: animal control agrees.                                                            Mon, 29.11, 2021, 11:35 am, Nika. Strange breed of small tooth dog turns out to be a man with abusive tendencies towards another man's daughter. After robbing and blackmailing the father, he kidnaps her and keeps hostage. The victim however found a key to the abuser's heart. Kind words save him from animal control shelter. The new man now on trial for kidnapping, robbery and blackmail.           

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Boy trades cow for beans (Jack and the Beanstalk)

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Boy trades cow for beans (Jack and the Beanstalk)

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Jack and his family are being investigated as the unfriendly giant is found dead in their yard.
Jack, born and raised in the countryside, traded the family cow for a number of beans. The beans, possibly brought to England from abroad, gave rise to ‘a beanstalk high enough to reach the sky’, where Jack reportedly encountered the giant. What remains a mystery for the police is how Jack’s family went from rags to riches in a few days - and what it has to do with the giant’s passing.
Jack, now retained by the authorities, causes a myriad of questions the public is yet to learn the answers to.

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I adore Veronika's story. it is filled with the details and useful vocabulary.

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I like that Anastasia focused on the topic of abuse in Cinderella, the summary is reaaly good!