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

Paisley Praises Meeting With Brady
IAN Paisley, Ireland's loudest and bitterest critic of the Catholic Church, has survived his first formal meeting with the leader of the country's "papists."

Parties Set for Scottish Talks
THE North's political parties travel to Scotland this week for a round of intense discussions with the Irish and British governments in a bid to resurrect the Stormont power-sharing Assembly.

Ahern, McDowell Agree to Lead
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern and Tánaiste Deputy Leader) Michael McDowell are set to continue to lead their coalition government into the middle of next year.

Siege Ends in Shooting
POLICE have moved swiftly to investigate the shooting by one of their own men of a gunman at the end of a 22-hour siege in the quiet market town of Gort, Co. Galway.

Ryanair's Bold Bid for Aer Lingus
THE government has been blamed for paving the way for swashbuckling Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary to bid for control of recently-privatized Aer Lingus.

SF Hopeful of Fundraising Ban End
OPPONENTS of the fundraising ban on Sinn Fein visas to the U.S. are optimistic that it may now be lifted following the Bush administration's positive response to Northern Ireland's IMC report.

Historic GAA Event Set for Boston
THE greatest U.S.-based GAA event in years will be hosted in Boston next weekend for two of the top games on the 2006 calendar.

Two Brawling Embassy Cops Fired
TWO armed cops who were supposed to have been protecting the U.S. Embassy in Dublin are to be dismissed following a drunken punch-up outside the building.

Crooks, Liars and Heroes
Before GEORGINA BRENNAN left the Irish Voice after five and a half years as a journalist, she took a look back over her time here and some of the memorable stories she's covered.

Priest Blames Bishop in New Film
A DOCUMENTARY film featuring a deeply disturbing interview with a defrocked Irish priest who was moved around California in an alleged cover-up.

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Entertainment & Culture
McCabe still staying true to his Irish roots
Playwright and author PAT McCABE will be back in the public eye next month with a new book, Winterwood. He chats to Alison O'Reilly about The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, which catapulted him to stardom, and looks forward to his upcoming novel.

Crowe flies in to pay tribute to Harris
Movie star Russell Crowe travelled to Ireland over the weekend to unveil a bronze statue in honour of his friend and late Irish actor Richard Harris.

Jakers Creator Tells All
It is now one of the most popular kids shows on television but Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks, is an unlikely success story. APRIL DREW reports.

O'Neill's Spirit Still Resonates
HIS biographers spell it out for you: Irish American playwright Eugene O' Neill had very good reason to believe that fate is inescapable...

Great Weekend for Trad in New York
IT'S weekends like this past one in New York that allow me to marvel at the health and diversity of traditional Irish music and the dedication of the artisans who make it.

CD Reviews, Books Reviews, Theatre Reviews

Latest Entertainment news

Sport

Journalists Are the Real Muppets
IRISH journalism sank to a new low on Monday, and once again Eamon Dunphy was the idiot to blame for the latest outbreak of Brit cloning.

Sideline Views

Boylan Says No Play for Pay
IRELAND manager Sean Boylan, currently preparing for the Compromise Rules series against the Australians, has hit out at the notion of payment for managers in the GAA.

Stan Under Fire After Shock Loss
REPUBLIC of Ireland manager Stephen Staunton will not be bullied out of his job, nor will he walk away from the pressure storm blowing in his face in the wake of a 5-2 humiliation away to Cyprus.

Sweet revenge for Leinster
Leinster's true revenge for the Munster mauling they received in the semi-final of last year's Heineken Cup may have to wait but Friday night's Magners League victory will have exorcised a demon or two.

New GAA initiative to slash London costs
A cash injection of more than £65,000 from the central council of the GAA has secured the future of London GAA teams in the National Leagues.

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Travel
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Pleasure island
MALCOLM ROGERS travels to Co. Kerry to visit Valentia Island and looks at holidays in Ireland's defunct lighthouses, administered by the Irish Landmark Trust.

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
Paisley a Peacemaker?
OCCASIONALLY in this life, the mountain comes to Mohammad. That is the only way of describing what happened on Monday when the Reverend Ian Paisley met with Archbishop Sean Brady.

Republican Woes Mount
THE page scandal that has engulfed Capitol Hill this week makes it far more likely that the Democratic Party will win a significant victory in the House, and possibly take the Senate in the midterm elections.

Aer Lingus, Ryanair Face Off
Just three days after our national airline, Aer Lingus, was privatized last week, the bad boys in Ryanair made a surprise raid on the shares...

Intelligencer
Strange Omission From Times - Fitzgerald for Clare - The Origins Of Jazz - Irish Team in The Playoffs

The Real Life Departed Cops
The Departed, starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, raked in almost $30 million for director Martin Scorsese last weekend.

Irish Politics Is So Hot!
IT'S a great week. Just as the weather goes wicked and we need really good TV with a bite, doesn't our Teflon Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern put his foot in it and the screen lights up.

Greencard
Becoming Illegal
BEFORE you consider living in the U.S. illegally, here are words of wisdom from some who are already here, some of them for many years.

Irish Kitchen
• CRAB CAKES WITH ROASTED RED PEPPER SAUCE
• DEEP-FRIED CHEESE WITH CUMBERLAND SAUCE
• CHOPS IN LOCKE'S
• PORTERHOUSE STEAKS WITH CASHEL BLUE COMPOUND BUTTER
• BAKED POTATOES WITH CHEDDAR AND CHIVES
• PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKES
• STRAWBERRY FLUMMERY

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
The Peter Berresford Ellis column centring on the 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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Irish Family Name Register [Free]
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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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Discussions
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Paternity Leave....3 lousy days!

Top 5 Irish Movies

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