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Local Irish reporting culled from various regional publications.
Spitzer Wins Refunds for Owad Victims
IRISH victims of immigration scammer Christine Owad will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced on Tuesday.
Irish Agency to Host U.S. Job Fair
THE Irish government's training and employment authority, FAS, is introducing a campaign designed to grab the attention of the U.S. workforce, focusing on American citizens and Irish citizens living in the U.S. who plan to move home.
Immigration Reform Still Hot Topic
WHILE Congress was busy trying to tie up loose ends before the recess for the upcoming elections set to begin at the end of this week, several tough immigration enforcement measures tied to a Homeland Security spending bill were killed.
Ahern Discusses Darfur, Middle East at UN
Dermot Ahern has warned the Sudanese government that they will be held responsible for the fate of the people of Darfur if it refuses to allow the deployment of UN personnel in the region.
Ahern Under Fire Over Payments
TAOISEACH (Irish Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern forcefully denied that there was any wrong-doing associated with payments he received in the 1990s totalling £39,000.
Tighter Immigrant Rules Coming
IRELAND is set to tighten immigration rules prior to Romania and Bulgaria joining the EU on January 1 next year.
Irish Diplomat's Life Threatened
A SENIOR Irish diplomat working with the North's deprived Protestant communities has been forced to move to Dublin after a dissident Loyalist death threat.
Omagh Trial Begins
THE trial has begun of an Armagh man charged with killing the 29 people, including a woman expecting twins, who died in the Omagh bomb.
Goodbye, Farewell to New York
It's time to go home for GEORGINA BRENNAN. Here, she writes about the daunting aspects of packing a container, and the emotions, good and bad, connected with saying goodbye.
The brains behind the Setanta TV success story
SIXTEEN years ago Ireland faced the might of Holland in the Italia
'90 World Cup — but two men in London felt left out.
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U2 Analyze Themselves
U2 have put pen to paper and created a definitive band biography that delves into the professional and the personal, the highs and the lows. U2 By U2 is released this week.
Irish Identity Saves the Day
Book review: Easter Rising is Michael Patrick MacDonald's memoir on his childhood encounters while growing up in an Irish Catholic enclave of South Boston's Old Colony housing project.
Flatley ties the knot in local ceremony
Michael Flatley plans to marry his fiancée in his local church. The wedding to fellow dancer Niamh O'Brien will take place on October 14 at St. Patrick's Church in Fermoy, Co. Cork.
TG 4 Celebrates 10 Great Years
THE Irish language channel TG 4 based in Connemara will be celebrating its 10th birthday on Halloween, and with 800,000 viewers a day a formidable presence in Irish broadcasting.
It's good to have Friends
Lisa Kudrow from Friends is joining Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the big screen adaptation of Cecilia Ahern's best-selling book PS, I Love You.
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Our Cup Runneth Over With Joy
A GOOD friend stood on the side of the 12th green at the K Club the other day and summed it all up with one succinct observation – Ireland's Ryder Cup was sport's equivalent of Halley's Comet.
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Clarke a Ryder Cup Hero at Home
A TEARFUL Darren Clarke was the toast of the K Club and the enduring
image of an incredible Ryder Cup as Team Europe spanked the U.S.
once again on Sunday.
Staunton's Side Hobbles Into Cyprus
IRELAND boss Steve Staunton has admitted he will play an anxious waiting game next weekend after naming a handful of injured players in his squad. Plus sports round-up.
Irish provinces to lock horns for Celtic glory
The Magners League has a look of the interprovincial championship of days gone by as Leinster travel west to face Connacht and Munster welcome a buoyant Ulster side to Thomond Park.
Moynihan the master hangs up his boots
Few Kerry players in recent times would be included in the greatest Kingdom teams of all times but the modest Seamus Moynihan is an exception.
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Alluring Leinster - Indulge in the delights of Dublin
There's never been a better time to enjoy a weekend in Dublin — Leinster's main metropolis, the capital of Ireland and one of Europe's great cities.
Alluring Leinster - Climb into the heart of Irish history
MALCOLM ROGERS repays a visit to the centre of Royal Meath, the ancient Hill of Tara — an important site in the country's history.
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Little Done, Much to Do
THE current session of Congress ends this week with grave disappointment that no decisive plan to address immigration reform has secured passage.
Bishop a Stand Up Star
"I LAUGHED 'til I cried" is the ultimate cliché used by reviewers when writing about a great comedy act. In this case I have to admit it is true.
Ahern Will Weather the Storm
AS I write this column (on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Irish time), the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern is live on the 6 o'clock evening news program on RTE fighting for his political life.
Intelligencer
Adams Optimism on Paisley - Policing the Key - Who Will Succeed Paisley? - Fianna Fail/ Sinn Fein Alliance?
Callaghan Shakes Up Dull Race
UP until this week the race for New York State comptroller – not exactly the sexiest office to begin with – had been plodding along.
Depression After the Defeat
Cormac MacConnell keeps the storytelling tradition alive in the
west of Ireland.
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The Peter Berresford Ellis column centring on the shrewd and astute
Catholic lawyer, Stephen Rice and his participation in the Cromwellian
settlement.
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King Dermot invited the Normans
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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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