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Survey
shows huge change in our religious convictions
IRISH people would prefer to visit garden centres and enjoy early
Sunday lunches than attend Mass.
Warning
issued over Maze rubble on internet auction
Rubble supposedly from the demolition of the North of Ireland's
most notorious prison the Maze is being sold on internet auction
site eBay.
Irish
fans hurt as police battle with supporters at Roma match
Irish fans of Manchester United were caught up in the violence which
marred their Champions League clash with Roma.
Government
will have key role in uniting both North and South
THE Irish Government must stop acting as if the nation ends at the
border with the North of Ireland Gerry Adams has said.
Memorial
to penalty kick king
PLANNING permission has been granted for a permanent memorial to
a Co. Armagh man who invented the penalty kick in football.
Escape
tunnel discovered during redevelopment of the Maze Prison
WORKERS demolishing the Maze Prison which once housed some of the
North of Ireland's most feared paramilitary prisoners have uncovered
a 60-ft long escape tunnel.
Bush
Touts Reform for 2007
IN a speech on immigration reform delivered at the U.S./Mexico border
at Yuma, Arizona on Monday, President George W. Bush said he is
working towards a bipartisan immigration reform bill that he hopes
will be delivered by the end of the year.
Concern
Seeks Funds for Darfur
AS New Yorkers are training for the five kilometer fun-run in Central
Park this coming Saturday, April 14, to raise money for Concern,
Ireland's largest charitable organization, a tremendous amount of
work is being done in the back offices of the organization in an
effort to raise $1 million to get desperately needed supplies to
Sudan's Western Darfur region.
Families
Push for Undocumented
AS the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) gears up to take
their campaign across the Atlantic with a meeting set for this Saturday,
April 14, at Jurys Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, family and friends
of the undocumented are putting the work in place to ensure that
Jury's will have a full house.
Paisley,
Ahern Shake on It
THE landmark historic handshake between Taoiseach (Prime Minister)
Bertie Ahern and hardline northern Protestant leader Ian Paisley
has been widely acclaimed throughout Ireland and Britain.
UDA
Leader Ready for Peace
ONE of Northern Ireland's leading Loyalist paramilitaries has admitted
that he will now have to work with Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams
and Martin McGuinness, the men he spent years trying to kill.
Irish
girls weave a fashion web
TWO Irish girls are putting their fashion sense to good use with
a new website the first of its kind in London.
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Nationwide
search begins for Rose Of Tralee contenders
IT IS that time of year again the search for the International Rose
Of Tralee.
Frustrated
Nora to quit dinnertimes
The Irish dinner lady who led Jamie Oliver's British TV crusade
for healthy school meals has decided to hang up her apron.
The
Queen Sets Sail
The John McColgan and Moya Doherty produced musical The Pirate Queen
finally opened on Broadway last week. CAHIR O'DOHERTY gives his
review.
Graham
thinks it's time for Simon to quit
Television presenter and comedian Graham Norton has advised X-Factor
and American Idol judge Simon Cowell to quit television.
Trad
festival will reach for your heart
The Celtic Heart Festival at the Riverside Theatre in Hammersmith
is to present a series of headline concerts, which brings to the
stage some of Ireland's most exciting and dynamic musicians who
have taken the old traditions to new heights and have attained worldwide
admiration and acclaim.
The
Ceili Dance Problem
THE latest edition of the Set Dancing News arrived in my mailbox
with 76 colorful pages detailing the worldwide fascination with
country set dancing, the Irish derivative of those courtly quadrille
dances that flourished on the continent as far back as the 19th
century.
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GAA
shorts
Since 1971 the best 15 footballers and hurlers have received an
All-Star Award. Four players have won awards in both football and
hurling, they are Jimmy-Barry Murphy (Cork), Brian Murphy (Cork),
Ray Cummins (Cork) and Liam Currams (Offaly)
Next
off the cork production line?
The city that gave us Murphys, the Jazz Festival and Barry's Tea
has now become a breeding ground for English football's latest stars.
Kingdom
doom Dublin to drop
A match which could have been of little consequence on the national
stage might just have provided some vital clues as to the state
of these teams' Championship challenges.
Rebels
roused from slumber for late revival
Two struggling football teams showed the reason for their woes as
they served up a match of poor quality at Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday,
with Cork condemned to Division Two and Limerick plunging the depths
to Division Three football next term.
Onward
and Upward for Sunderland
THERE'S a young man from the Setanta sports television network currently
doing the rounds in Dublin with his camera and his questions for
a new documentary on the most famous row in Irish football Saipan!
Nugent
and Geraghty Across the Field
AS we continue on our voyage to what will be a look back at the
1967 League final the week before the players from the victorious
New York team are honored at Gaelic Park on May 13, this week we
get two distinct views from men standing at each end of the field
on those faithful days at the Mecca, May 14 and 21, 1967.
Latest Sports News
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Time
is running out to play your part in a piece of golfing history
IT'S never happened before and anyone would hate to miss out. On
June 22 some 1,000 golfers will take to the fairways of four of
Ireland's finest courses for a tournament the like of which has
never been seen.
Enjoying
a taste of the high life in Gstaad
At the Hotel Grand Bellevue, protocol demands that you lounge in
a comfortable armchair and sip a cup of dark, Swiss coffee while
you're checked in. The receptionist speaks such flawless English
he probably moonlights as a UN interpreter. But that's Gstaad for
you. There's a nonchalant sophistication to the entire place.
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Kathleen's
long search to discover who she is
We take it for granted that we know who we are and where we come
from, but for kathleen ferguson these simple questions have no answers.
Elaine Sheridan meets the mother-of-four who has spent the last
10 years engaged in a search which has spanned both Britain and
Ireland trying to find her true identity.
Doe
the Right Thing
NEW Yorkers, according to George T. McDonald, "are an extremely
generous lot."
The
Handshake of History
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair, on a visit to the North nearly
a decade ago, spoke about feeling the hand of history on his shoulder.
Tale
of the Frisky Cat
DID ye notice I wrote nothing at all about That Meeting in Belfast?.
Intelligencer
ILIR Needs Big Turnout - ILIR Needs Big Turnout - Huge Demand From
U.S.
Helping
people face up to a better future
Plastic surgery vanity or practicality? The ability to change someone's
appearance is now an everyday reality. But it's not all about cellulite-free
legs or flat stomachs and bigger breasts. Three Irish plastic surgeons
tell Cornelia Lucey how their work has helped transform people's
lives for the better.
Keane,
Dunphy and the new Irish brat-pack
STRANGELY enough I feel nothing but relief that the Irish soccer
team are not playing again now until summer is on the wane.
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News
From Ireland
Sinn Féin voted to support the Police Service of Northern
Ireland (PSNI) formerly the RUC at an extraordinary Ard Fheis (party
congress) attended by nearly 1,000 delegates in Dublin. The motion
was carried by over 90 percent of the vote.
Letters
Edna O'Brien -What About Conor? - The Dempsey Dilemma - Gifted Tour
Guide - St. Patrick and Katrina
Irish
Eye on Hollywood
March marks the release of two big Cillian Murphy films. First there
is the American release of the Irish Civil War drama The Wind that
Shakes the Barley, which won major praise at the recent Sundance
Film Festival. Wind is easily one of the most highly anticipated
Irish movies to come out in years.
Translations
A Hit with the Critics
Brian Friel's Translations, an unforgettable threnody on the death
of the Irish language, has been a critical triumph. The play, currently
playing at the Biltmore Theater until April, is not new to New York
(it played off-Broadway in 1981 and on Broadway in 1995) but third
time has been a charm with the hard-to-please New York reviewers.
Book
corner
After novels about grungy Irish blues bands and coming-of-age boys,
Roddy Doyle surprised readers with his 1996 bestseller The Woman
Who Walked into Doors, about a woman trapped in an abusive marriage.
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