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News & Features
Regional Round-up
Local Irish reporting culled from various regional publications.

Altar Egos: Irish Priests Nabbed for Stealing Millions
TWO Irish priests based in Florida allegedly embezzled $8.6 million from their church and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling real estate ventures, air travel, gambling junkets and payments to secret girlfriends.

Irishman Kills Wife in Suicide Bid
AN Irishman is in critical condition after shooting his wife and subsequently turning the gun on himself in their family home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Ahern Survives Political Crisis
BATTLING Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern remains under attack from the opposition after admitting an error of judgment in accepting money from friends in Dublin and Britain.

Undocumented Determined to Press Ahead
NOW that the Congress has adjourned for the electoral period without enacting comprehensive immigration reform, where does that leave the estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish in the U.S.?

Irish Extras Praise Scorsese's 'Departed'
Would an Irish American movie really be without the talents of local Irish actors? Scorsese made it a point to cast his net far and wide last year for unknown Irish.

Gov't Gives Millions to Clinton Foundation
THE Irish government has committed almost $89 million in aid in a partnership with the Clinton Foundation to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Ahern Vows Support for Reform
IRISH Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern says that the Irish government is prepared to launch a renewed all-out effort to secure comprehensive immigration reform.

Nassau's Irish American Center 75 Years Young
AT the heart of every Irish community is an Irish centre, and Long Island is no exception.

Bertie's £8,000 Manchester cash mystery
TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was this week facing the biggest political crisis of his career in a row over an £8,000 donation by a group of Manchester-based Irish businessmen.

Hunt begins for Ireland's elusive solitary hangman
Historian Tim Carey is currently hunting for information about a mysterious Irishman believed to have trained to become a hangman in the 1940s.

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Entertainment & Culture
The Departed and the Damned
Martin Scorsese's new movie about the Irish mob in Boston is an instant classic, says NIALL O'DOWD.

'Departed' Writer Talks of Irish Roots
APRIL DREW talks to William Monahan, screenwriter of The Departed, about the film and his Irish roots.

Pogues Get Rhino Redux
With the re-release of all five of The Pogues' studio albums, Rhino is doing the Lord's work, indeed!

Lunasa Keeps Going Strong
KEEPING a band on the road for over a decade presents great challenges, and if you can overcome the obstacles that human nature or the marketplace can send your way then you have a pretty good chance at success.

Comhaltas Tour Kicks Off
FOR 34 years Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann has produced a show to tour North America that features traditional music, song, stepdancing and humor with the intended purpose of tightening the bonds that exist between the old and new world.

CD Reviews, Books Reviews, Theatre Reviews

Latest Entertainment news

Sport

Staunton Hobbles Into Cyprus
"In all your time with Ireland as a player or manager Steve, have you ever witnessed a bigger injury nightmare?" Quick as a flash came the ironic reply: "Yes, for Holland back in August."

Sideline Views

Duddy Toughs Out a Win
John Duddy continued his rise through the world middleweight ranks with a punishing 12 round decision over the veteran, former world champion Luis "Yori Boy" Campos.

McGeady better than Wright-Phillips says Hartson
Celtic edged past a determined Falkirk side 1-0 to maintain their three-point lead at the top of the SPL.

Back to normal for the provinces
Semblance, reason and logic all returned to the Magners League last weekend for the Irish sides involved.

Irish Post's hurling All-Stars
Kilkenny legends picks his hurlers of an All-Ireland where the cream rose to the top for an enthralling Cork/Kilkenny final.

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Travel
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Get in a cheap round at some of the country's leading links
The Ryder Cup saw the millionaires of golf strutting their stuff in Co. Kildare. But you don't need to be loaded to enjoy a round of golf in Ireland. Avril O'Reilly looks at the country's golfing scene and shows that it's not just for the millionaires.

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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Comment & Caint
Stars of the South
I went to the capital of the south on Friday to co-host the first annual "Stars of the South" event honoring those who have kept the Irish flag flying below the Mason Dixon line for many years now.

A Political Crisis
Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats looked on shaky ground this week after revelations that Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern took loans from business friends totaling about $70,000.

Irish Myths vs. Harsh Reality
IT'S safe to say the myth of the kindly Irish priest, that icon immortalized in Hollywood by the likes of Pat O'Brien and Barry Fitzgerald, has been taken down yet another few notches this week.

Intelligencer
Foley's Irish Ties - Young Dems Set Up Group - McAuliffe's Key Hillary role - Heath's Bomb Threat - Korean Unveiling.

Manton Gets Queens P.O.
FORMER Congressman Tom Manton, an Irish American political powerhouse in Queens who passed away in July of this year, will have a post office in Woodside named in his honor...

A Golfer Shows His Class
I'M not a golfing addict, far from it, but the recent Ryder Cup contest at the upmarket K Club in Co. Kildare was such a huge and hugely hyped event that it was impossible not to be aware of it.

Greencard
Employment Green Cards/Where to File
"MUST a green card recipient via employment stay with the employer for good, or at least for a certain period of time? I am in a big city working for a nice employer who would offer to sponsor me for a green card, but while I like the job I hate the city and would prefer to move elsewhere, or even home. What do you suggest?"

Irish Kitchen
Irish autumn pudding
Jameson Chocolate-Walnut-Caramel Tart
Beef and Guinness Casserole with Chestnuts

Irish RootS & Heritage
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
Peter Beresford Ellis looks at the spies and informers in Ireland. It was not only in Ireland that England employed agents to spy on the activities of the Irish. During the Napoleonic period in Paris, England’s spymaster, William Wickham (1761-1840) was spending a huge amount on his Parisian spy-network checking the Irish exiles there. One of his best agents was a Wexford man, a former priest called Charles Somers.

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Irish AMERICA MAGAZINE
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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