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Local Irish reporting culled from various regional publications.
McAllister Gets Breathing Room
THE Department of Homeland Security, in a quiet goodwill gesture, has agreed to give Malachy McAllister breathing space while his case works through the courts.
Financial Dynamics in $260 Million Deal
PUBLIC relations giant Financial Dynamics has been sold for $260 million to FTI Consulting, Inc. The firm, run in the U.S. by Tipperary native Declan Kelly, 38, has already started integration into FTI.
ILIR Lobbies on Capitol Hill
THE Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) was back in the nation’s capital last Thursday to unite with immigrant rights advocates for a rally at the National Mall.
Annie Moore Story Debunked
ONE of the best-loved stories about Irish emigration to the U.S., the story of Annie Moore, is about to be debunked.
McIntyre Family Awarded Millions
EMILY McIntyre, mother of the infamous IRA gunrunner John McIntyre, who was arrested during an unsuccessful arms smuggling operation aboard, has been awarded $3.1 million.
The Dress Made Just for Me
In the second installment of her wedding planning/ moving to Ireland saga, GEORGINA BRENNAN talks about the dress shopping and container packing consuming her time this month.
Ulster Unionists Ordered to Sever Links
EMBARRASSED Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leaders were attempting to regroup Tuesday after being told they must sever their links with a party connected to a Loyalist paramilitary group.
IMC Says IRA Committed to Politics
THE IRA has kept its command structure but "is not engaged in terrorist activity," according to the latest report of a body set up to monitor the Republican and Loyalist ceasefires.
McDowell Pledges Support to Coalition
MICHAEL McDowell's first pledge as new leader of the Progressive Democrats was that the party will continue in power with Fianna Fail after next year's general election.
Neighbors Cash in for Millions
AN entire neighborhood has cashed in on Ireland’s amazing property boom by putting all its homes on the market at the same time.
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Laughs From a Bishop
IRISH American comedian Des Bishop comes to Woodlawn and Queens next weekend, where he will perform a couple of charity shows.
Heartbreaking Story of Old
Book review: KATHY’S Story is a memoir of author Kathy O’Beirne’s childhood hell within Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries.
Branagh Turns Sleuth With Law
Kenneth Branagh, no stranger to the director’s chair, has been Oscar nominated four times for acting, directing and writing. Not bad for a boy who grew up as working class Protestant in Belfast.
Stalking Sarah and Matthew
SARAH Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick are growing increasingly uncomfortable with their Irish abode because more and more tourists are seeking it out.
Snow Patrol Legend Grows in NYC
IN the dirt on the sidewalk of midtown Manhattan, there grows some mighty stories of legendary concerts from Irish artists over the years...
CD Reviews,
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Kerry’s Donaghy Ready for Win
A round-up of the week's sporting news including an interview Kerry football's new folk-hero/pin-up Kieran Donaghy ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SFC final.
Gaelic
Park Previews
A Wink From My Friend Roy
There were several new faces sitting in front of him, as every newspaper in England sent a man along to witness the beginning of the Keane era for Sunderland.
Mayo and Kerry’s final countdown
Anxious to keep his players focused on Sunday’s All-Ireland final Mickey Moran took his team away to a mystery location last weekend as Mayo wind down their All-Ireland final preparations.
Sideline Views
Gaelic news from around the counties
Mayo’s veteran defender James Nallen says he will not be happy with his football career if it ends without an All-Ireland win.
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The Spirit of New York
WE all marked the dreadful events of September 11 this week, but for one man that dreadful day was not the huge surprise it was for so many of us...
All Change in Irish Politics
IRELAND has a new Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Michael McDowell, who has just been named leader of the Progressive Democrats, the minority party in the government coalition.
McDowell Is a True Leader
THE worst nightmare of the center left in Irish politics became a reality last weekend when Michael McDowell became the new leader of the Progressive Democrats.
Intelligencer
Harsh Attack on Dodd - Dodd a Great Friend - New Ambassador Steps Out - Clintons Court Irish
To Catch an Irish Thief
George Appo may very well have been the world’s most successful pickpocket, sometimes earning as much or more in one day than an honest laborer did in an entire year.
A Picture’s Poignant Words
Cormac MacConnell keeps the storytelling tradition alive in the
west of Ireland.
Surrendering Status/Permit Extension/Lottery News
CRAB CAKES WITH ROASTED RED PEPPER SAUCE
PORTERHOUSE STEAKS WITH CASHEL BLUE COMPOUND BUTTER
PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES
Questions and Answers
Need help with the research on your family tree? Looking for specific
records but not exactly sure where to find them? IrishAbroad.com's
genealogy expert, Kyle Betit, will do his best to show the best
routes to find what you are looking for. Read some of his answers
to questions from other members here.
Anois agus Arís
The Peter Berresford Ellis column centring on tbe shrewd and astute Catholic lawyer, Stephen Rice and his participation in the Cromwellian settlement.
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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