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Fianna
Fail Pushes Credibility
FIANNA Fail has given a clear hint that its general election campaign
for votes will center on who has the greatest credibility.
Funeral
service provides a unique undertaking
AN innovative idea by an undertaker in the North of Ireland has
given people in Britain the chance to attend the funerals of loved
ones in the comfort of their own home.
Paisley
Ready to Do a Deal?
IS Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley edging closer
to a historic deal with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, or will
he turn back at the doors of Stormont and refuse to share power
with the embodiment of Irish republicanism?
Former
IRA volunteer ready to reveal all in new TV documentary
THE IRA in the 1950s had "too many morals" according to
a former volunteer.
St.
Patrick visits Loyalist area
RESIDENTS of a Loyalist area of south Belfast staged a St. Patrick's
Day celebration for the first time in decades.
NEWS FROM ABROAD
Taoiseach
Pushes Immigration Reform
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern, in Washington, D.C. and
New York last week for St. Patrick's celebrations, said he is looking
forward to working with Senator Ted Kennedy and President George
W. Bush to promote passage of a comprehensive immigration bill.
President
vows to continue supporting the Irish in Britain
IRISH President Mary McAleese was welcomed to London by the British
Council to give a lecture on the changing face of Ireland last week.
House
Immigration Bill Ready
THE House version of the Kennedy/McCain immigration bill is to be
introduced on Thursday, March 22 by Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois)
and Congressman Floyd Flake (R-Arizona).
Irish
roots of presidential frontrunner are revealed
AMERICA could have its first black Irish president next year.
Emeralds
Seek Dunleavy Resignation
Reading
Irish Centre saved by new deal
READING Irish Centre has been saved from closure in a rescue plan
which will also provide older members of the community with a much-needed
and long-awaited day-care centre.
Mother
set to reunite with abandoned baby
THE young Irish woman who left her newborn baby in a public toilet
in an Australian beach resort last week is to be reunited with her
child.
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New
role set to take Bad Girl Siobhan back to her first love
IRISH actress Siobhan McCarthy has swapped her reputation as a Bad
Girl in favour of singing on London's big stage.
Flatley's
a Freeman
Michael's favorite city in Ireland, Cork, has just voted to bestow
him with the highest honor possible, the Freeman of Cork award,
which will be conferred in May.
True
North
With a new album under their belt and a major new concert on April
5 to unveil it, Mr. North's second act is looking even more impressive
than their first. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to lead singer Colin Smith
of the New York-based Irish band about messy breakups, making music
and the path ahead.
Looks
At Books
Billy The Kid: The Endless Ride - Mothers and Sons - The Bloomsday
Dead - Letters of an Imprisoned Mobster - Lake of Sorrows.
Moore
vocal inspiration from Christy
CHRISTY Moore's latest album Burning Times is a collection of moving
and inspirational songs by various artists which he and Declan Sinnott
have recreated whilst still retaining the core elements that first
made each song so great.
Latest Entertainment
news
Duddy
a Knockout as Irish Celebrate
OVER 5,000 plus Irish fans adorned in green and gold packed into
the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday to watch Derry boxer
John Duddy walk away with yet another win in his pocket.
Shock
Irish Cricket Win Over Pakistan
IT will go down as one of the biggest sporting upsets ever the Irish
cricket team celebrated St. Patrick's Day in style in Kingston,
Jamaica, on Saturday when they beat Pakistan and sent one of the
favorites crashing out of the World Cup.
Keane's
Fury Over Player Snub
SUNDERLAND boss Roy Keane, whose team beat Hull on Saturday to maintain
their push for promotion to the Premiership, has again hit out at
the FAI and Ireland boss Stephen Staunton.
Agony
of French Victory
IRELAND'S players had to sit and watch in the luxury of their five
star Rome hotel as France secured the Six Nations title in heartbreaking
fashion with a last minute video try on Saturday night.
Hurlers
look for a change of fortune
When London manager Brendan Bolger reflects on his side's two games
in the National League so far this year he would be forgiven for
wondering why London aren't top of the table.
A
Prague victory may help Republic's cause
The Republic of Ireland could find themselves in second place in
Group D on Saturday evening level on points with either Germany
or the Czech Republic.
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Slippery
slope to master
They say you're never too old to learn. But as he nears 60 is skiing
a step too far for The Irish Post's MALCOLM ROGERS? Apparently not!.
Travel
news
The beautiful area of South Armagh which US writer Paul Theroux
once described as being on a par with Provence despite its military
installations and helicopter gunships is now using its battle-scarred
past as a lure for visitors.
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IRELAND
Joe
Horgan: What will replace the Church as our social keeper?
ALTHOUGH our Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is a regular Mass-goer we live
now in an Ireland where the Catholic Church is a shadow of its former
self.
Cormac
MacConnell: Nothing Obese About Lents Past
IT is Lent. We are in the middle of the once very penitential Catholic
season of prayer and fasting and repentance for our Irish sins of
the world and the flesh and the devil.
Ireland
Calling: Trying to Buy an Election
A GENERAL election is due here in May, and already the air is thick
with promises from political parties trying to buy our votes with
our own money.
ABROAD
Niall
O'Dowd: McGuinness Makes History
WE are on the cusp of a truly historic moment in Northern Ireland.
Sidewalks:
Two Giants of Irish America
BEFORE he was one of America's most insightful academics, John Patrick
Diggins was a San Francisco boy whose Irish immigrant parents had
normal expectations.
Mother, Life, Landscape, and the Connection
Edna O'Brien returns to world of The Country Girls in The Light
of Evening, with the mother-daughter relationship as the main theme.
Imagining the Unknown
In his latest novel, Zoli, Dublin-born Colum McCann proves that
part of his talent as a writer lies in his ability to imagine and
capture the lives of the forgotten and oppressed.
Touring Ireland 2007
Do you fancy a trip to the old country in 2007? Or maybe you have
your dates already booked? Either way, the following event guide
lists upcoming musical, cultural and sporting festivals over the
next six months.
Tara Keeps Her Crown
Tara Conner, Miss USA 2006 and Irish America cover story (Oct./Nov.)
has been called to task about conduct unbecoming a beauty queen.
It seems that the transition from the small town of Russell Springs,
Kentucky to New York City has been a lot to handle for the petite
blonde.
Book corner
Tom Deignan reviews the latest Irish and Irish-American books.
Roots: O'Brien
Liam Moriarty looks at one of Ireland's signature names.
Dual
Citizenship
"I am currently going through the green card process and have
maintained that I will not be going so far as to get U.S. citizenship
as I want my children (God willing) to have both Irish and American
citizens as parents so they have more options as far as where they
want to live and work around the globe..."
Spouse
Passport
"I HAVE two children born in New York. My husband is from Ireland.
We just received their Irish passports. I would also like one, but
I understand I cannot get one. I am from the U.S. and have no Irish
link but my husband. It doesn't make sense that my children can
get passports, but I can't. Is it true that you have to live in
Ireland to get a passport through marriage?"
• Beef in Ale with Cheese Cobbler
• Celery
and Apple Soup
• Mustard
and pesto lamb with olive oil mash and peas
• Easter
Roast Lamb with a Herbed Crusted Top
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Forgotten Irish
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of the existence of an active Irish community in Argentina.
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