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Local Irish reporting culled from various regional publications.
Parties Get Set for Election Rumble
GENERAL election fever is in the air in Ireland. The predicted giveaway in the December budget has fuelled belief that an election campaign is already underway.
Mortem Mix Up at Beaumont
BEAUMONT Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in Ireland, has launched an investigation into how an additional heart and set of lungs were inside the body of a man.
Study Pays for Drug Use
SCIENTISTS at Trinity College in Dublin were under attack this week for offering $40 vouchers to entice Ecstasy users to take part in a study on the brain.
Westport Cleans Up Nice
GO west for order and tidiness in Ireland. That’s the message from the annual Tidy Towns contest which this week was won by Westport, Co. Mayo.
Neutral Venue Set for Talks
THE Irish and British prime ministers are to host an intense round of "hot house" negotiations outside the North in a bid to meet the November deadline for the return of the Assembly.
GAA Nixes Sinn Fein Tickets
THE GAA decision not to provide Sinn Fein with tickets to this year’s All-Ireland football and hurling finals has been derided by a senior party member.
A Journey Towards Peace
Ron Clifford was in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when the plane carrying his sister and niece crashed into it...
Rushing to the Rescue
EVEN though his friends call him a hero, Steve McSweeney, 32, said his only motivation for running into the rescue efforts of September 11 was his family.
Irish really do have the gift of the gab
THE Irish accent has been described as the most powerful male aphrodisiac in the world. And now a website has been launched to help everyone learn how to speak English the Irish way.
Memories Too Painful to Watch
Conor O’Clery, former New York and Washington, D.C. correspondent for The Irish Times tells of the two most chilling events of his career, one that has witnessed numerous unspeakable horrors.
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Lassie’s Irish Home
Lassie, perhaps the world’s most famous dog, spent much of last year in Ireland shooting another film on her famous life and times.
Life Affirming Stories from MacLaverty
MATTERS of Life and Death, by Bernard MacLaverty, is a collection of stand alone short stories, with the exception of the two title stories. In it, MacLaverty marries great storytelling with remarkable characters.
Irish Film Series for New York
NEW York's Irish Arts Center has announced a new Irish film series
to be launched on September 13 with the Irish historic film Mise
Éire, as well as Martin McDonagh's Oscar winning short, Six Shooter.
Sheen Begins Irish College Life
IRELAND'S most famous college freshman, the award winning American
actor Martin Sheen, is all signed up for his studies at the NUI
Galway for the coming year.
Michael Sets the Date
THE biggest Irish party of the year is set for Saturday, October
14, as Michael Flatley will throw open the doors to his Castlehyde
mansion in Co. Cork for his wedding to new fiancée Niamh O'Brien.
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Losing Start to Irish Euro Campaign
IT WAS certainly much better than last month’s collapse against Holland, but Ireland were fortunate to lose by just one goal in this Euro 2008 opener in Stuttgart on Saturday.
Gaelic
Park Previews
Hungry Cats Stop Cork Treble
IF ever a team captured an All-Ireland title by sheer force of will,
Brian Cody's side did it on Sunday in the hurling final at Croke
Park.
Ryder Cup Call for Clarke
DARREN Clarke will play in the Ryder Cup later this month after Ian Woosnam handed the grieving Ulsterman a wild card entry onto the European team.
Sideline Views
Keane Looks Forward
ROBBIE Keane had to accept his part in Germany's lucky winner against Ireland on Saturday night, but he also backed Ireland’s ability to bounce back against Cyprus.
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The Day of Destruction
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 was set to be a red-letter day for me. I was about to cast my first ever vote in an American election. I had become an American citizen some years before, but had never got around to voting mainly because of sheer laziness. Finally I was going to do it...
Five Years On
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 was the worst of times. The events of that day have shaped all of our lives since, and not for the better, no matter what corner of the globe we live in.
Gaelic Is Such a Waste
THE past couple of weeks were back to school time here in Ireland, and in the Spain household there were heavy hearts and long faces of regret at the ending of a great summer...
Intelligencer
The Good News On Immigration - A New Opening? - Good Read - Adams in Jerusalem
9/11 Heroes Are Still Giving
IT'S hard to walk the streets in the Staten Island neighborhood where I grew up without thinking about those who were killed five years ago.
Thanks a Lot, Dubya!
HONESTLY, I become quite fed up with your esteemed President George W. Bush. Forgive me please for stating this apparently anti-American sentiment, and allow me to explain before judging me.
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A Master of Rhyme Who Wanted to Starve the Irish
The Old English of Munster rose in 1569 in a revolt that lasted four years and they rose again in 1579, this time aided by the Spanish...
Ousted King Dermot invited the Normans
In the late autumn of AD 1175 the scribe making an entry into the Annals of Clonmacnoise thought that he had good news to report to the people of Ireland...
Passenger Lists [Access with Irish Circle]
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Duty, Honor & Countries
John McCain (R-AZ) is seated in his Senate office leafing through
a dog-eared copy of John F. Kennedy's seminal work, A Nation of
Immigrants...
Marian Keyes – The Interview
"Ask me anything," Marian Keyes invited her audience at a recent
reading she gave in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while promoting her
latest book Anybody Out There? "I'm happy to talk about my alcoholism,
suicide attempt, my low self-esteem."
Entering the Brotherhood
The dynamic of the show is based on the good/bad brothers and immediately brings the real life Irish-American Bulger family story to mind.
From Annascaul to the Antarctic
February 1911: Tom Crean froze as he felt the sea-ice shift ominously under his feet. The familiar creaking and grinding told him the ice was beginning to break up...
Bringing Synge to New York
The unpretentious, unflappable Ms. Hynes has come to New York to direct not one, but six plays by John Millington Synge...
Ireland Takes Center Stage
To be sure, the wait has been worth it. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year that Ireland has had to be patient before being bestowed with the favor of playing host to the 2006 Ryder Cup has been worth it.
Birth of a Nation
Every schoolchild in Ireland in the 1960s saw Mise Éire (I Am Ireland), the Irish-language film which chronicles, in extraordinary detail, the birth of the Irish Nation. I saw it again recently and realized what an incredible piece of film it is.
Irish Eye on Hollywood
Irish actor Brendan Gleeson can always be relied upon to star in independent movies on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as Hollywood blockbusters.
First Irish Winner of IMPAC Award
Colm Tóibín on June 13 became the first Irish author to be awarded the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Master. The award is the largest of its kind, with a prize of $125,000.
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