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Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland and titan of nationalist politics who died on Saturday, regarded the 19th-century Irish home rule champion Charles Stewart Parnell as one of his greatest political inspirations. Salmond (69), who died suddenly of…

On a Friday night in late June, Jane Jermyn was preparing to drive home from a table quiz in the tiny village of Knockanore in Co Waterford when her phone beeped. Residents at the Lismore House Hotel, where asylum-seeking families…