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Couple Facing
Christmas Deportation
IT is the wish of most undocumented Irish to spend Christmas at home in
Ireland with their families, but for Paul and Jenny Ladd their only holiday
wish is to remain in the U.S. The couple, living in Norwood, Massachusetts,
just outside of Boston, is facing deportation on December 21 for being in
the wrong place at the wrong time.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Neal to Stress
North, Immigration
The incoming chairman of the Friends of Ireland Group in Congress says his
priorities will be making sure that the final elements of the Good Friday
Agreement, are implemented and that immigration reform will happen in the
new session of Congress.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Reports Details Haughey
Corruption
Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles Haughey received millions of dollars
from businessmen over 17 years in return for favors when he enjoyed a lifestyle
“vastly beyond the scale of what he earned as a public representative,”
according to the main findings in the 700-page first report of the Moriarty
Tribunal set up nine years ago to probe political corruption.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Nally Says “I’d Kill Again”
Freed farmer Padraig Nally has said just days after his acquittal of the
manslaughter of a traveler trespassing on his farm that, given similar circumstances,
he would consider doing the same again.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Murder Victim’s Parents
Furious
The family of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier marked the
10th anniversary of her death with a scathing attack on the lack of legal
cooperation between the Irish and French authorities probing the killing.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Tough Bail Laws Are Proposed
The government has moved to make it more difficult for known criminals to
get bail while awaiting trial.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Stone’s Rock Bottom ‘Art’
Defense
The Loyalist serial killer who admitted launching a murder bid on Sinn Fein
leaders at Stormont last month has come up with a novel defense.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Paisley’s Girl Beats Dad’s
Party
The daughter of Ian Paisley, founder of the hard-line Democratic Unionist
Party (DUP), has won a sex discrimination case against her father’s party.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Adams Seeks Slay Inquiry
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has called for an inquiry into claims that
police Special Branch were linked to an assassination bid when he was shot
and seriously wounded. more...
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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A Blue Christmas Without
Them
Thousands of Irish homes will be missing sons, daughters, brothers and sisters
this year, as increasing numbers of undocumented Irish in the U.S. refuse
to take the chance of going home for Christmas with the prospect of immigration
reform on the horizon.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Irish Turn Out for Boston
Rally
IT was standing room only at Freeport Hall in Boston on Wednesday night,
December 13, as Irish American leaders gathered at a rally hosted by the
Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) in support of the estimated 8,000
undocumented Irish immigrants in Boston.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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Finally, We’re Getting Married!
I’M getting married today (Wednesday, December 20). Imagine. Married.
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(Irish Voice) 20 December 2006
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A Christmas Wish
for Irish Trip
Dancing instructor Caroline Duggan, who teaches Irish dance to 33 African-American
and Hispanic children in the Bronx, is pleading for donations to bring the
children to Ireland to perform on the nation’s biggest talk show, The Late
Late Show. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Drug Slaying
Takes Innocent Bystander
An innocent 20-year-old plumber was being mourned across Ireland after he
died in gangland hit on Tuesday that also claimed the life of a vicious
suspected drugs godfather and multiple killer.
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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‘Santa’ Cowen Spreads
Budget Cheer
A $1.34 billion giveaway budget that earned Finance Minister Brian Cowen
the seasonal nickname “Santa” was hailed as an election return ticket for
the government. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Football Star Enters Politics
Meath Gaelic football star Graham Geraghty is to run for election to the
Dail for Fine Gael in next year’s general election.
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Furor Over Age of Consent
Objections by the Catholic bishops to a proposal to lower the age for consensual
sex from 17 to 16 have scuppered government plans for a referendum on children’s
rights before next year’s general election
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Sinn Fein to Meet Orde
on Policing
The special Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (convention) aimed at achieving the party’s
backing for the North’s policing and justice system took a giant step closer
Tuesday. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Bid to Kill Adams Fails
Dissident Irish Republicans tried to kill Gerry Adams but had to abandon
the operation because of the Sinn Fein leader’s personal security arrangements,
it has been revealed. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Irish Gov’t to Fund New Cops?
New recruits to the North’s police force are being trained in sub-standard
facilities because the British government refuses to fully fund a new academy,
it has been claimed. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Irish International
Aid Reaches Record Levels
The Minister of State for Irish Aid Conor Lenihan was in New York last week
to announce details of a dramatic increase in Irish assistance to developing
nations and to release the first ever White Paper on Irish Aid.
more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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All I Want for Christmas
So what are the favorite toys that Santa will bring this year to good boys
and girls? April Drew went to Woodlawn to find out.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 December 2006
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Schumer Pledges
New Year Reform
TheNew Year will usher in plenty of good tidings for the Irish undocumented
in the form of a comprehensive immigration bill that will set them on their
way to legal status in the U.S., Senator Charles Schumer told more than
1,000 attendees at a Bronx rally on Friday night hosted by the Irish Lobby
for Immigration Reform (ILIR).
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Benefit for
Injured Irishman
Irish friends of Bronx resident Enda Corcoran, 25, who lost his left leg
in a horrific motorcycle accident last August, will rally around this Sunday
with a fundraiser for him in the Bronx.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Rally Galvanizes ILIR Members
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house last Friday evening at the Irish Lobby
for Immigration Reform (ILIR) meeting at St. Barnabas in Woodlawn, when
two Irish undocumented women addressed a mass congregation of 1,100 immigration
reform supporters. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Flynn Chosen as Parade Marshal
Former mayor of Boston and U.S. Ambas-sador to the Vatican Ray Flynn was
officially selected as grand marshal of the 2007 New York St. Patrick’s
Day parade on Tuesday.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Scissor Sisters Jailed
for Murder
Two sisters, dubbed the Scissor Sisters have been jailed for killing their
mother’s violent lover on her instructions, and then cutting his body into
several pieces, according to trial evidence.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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‘Inventor’ Barred from RTE
A man consumed with conviction that there is a media conspiracy against
an invention that could reduce road accidents has been ordered not to come
within a two-mile radius of RTE, the Irish national broadcaster.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Irish Happy but Tired
Irish people are a happy lot but feel tired and worn out more regularly
than other Europeans. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Paisley Addresses ‘Sinn
Fein/IRA’
The long-awaited “clash” between the leaders of the North’s two largest
political parties took place Monday in the Stormont Assembly.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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North to End Prisoner Remission
The British government is to end its policy of giving 50% remission to prisoners
in the North’s jails.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Russian Not Poisoned in
Ireland
GARDAI (police) are satisfied that former Russian Premier Yegor Gaidar was
not poisoned while in Ireland for a conference at the National University
of Ireland in Maynooth.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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The Rocky Road to Matrimony
In her second last column before her wedding, Georgina Brennan reveals the
rocky road she has been navigating since returning to Ireland to get married
this Christmas. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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The Rare Old Times
IT had all the trappings of dance halls years ago -- gentlemen seated to
the left of the room and ladies to the right. Even Joe of the Cunningham
Brothers band was there, but his accordion remained at home.
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(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Duddy’s ‘07 Return
New IBA middleweight champion Ireland John Duddy will return to the ring
January 11 when he will headline a night of boxing at the Roseland Ballroom
in New York. more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 December 2006
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Schumer to Headline
ILIR Meeting
Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, will headline the Irish Lobby
for Immigration Reform (ILIR) rally at St. Barnabas Church in Woodlawn on
Friday, December 1.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Supreme Court
Denies McAllister
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the asylum application of a
former INLA member fighting his deportation to Northern Ireland.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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New Tourism Push Launched
Irish Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue says the Irish government is planning
new initiatives to grow tourism from North America to Ireland in the year
ahead. more...
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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McCabe Killers Claim
Discrimination
The IRA killers of Detective Jerry McCabe claim there is a deliberate state
policy barring them from temporary overnight releases from jail to spend
time with their families
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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O’Brien Wins Record Libel
Claim
The British-owned Mirror Group Newspapers, which has special dedicated editions
for Irish readers, is expected to appeal a High Court award of more than
$1 million record libel damages to millionaire businessman Denis O’Brien.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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McDaid Returns to Fray
Former government minister Dr. Jim McDaid says he has done a u-turn on his
decision to exit national politics because he wants to keep Sinn Fein in
Donegal out of the Dail (Parliament).
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Kenny’s Wife Blasts Fianna
Fail
A former Fianna Fail government spin-doctor has warned that if the party
is re-elected to power next year Ireland is in danger of becoming “a one-party
state.” more...
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Loyalist Killer Thwarted
at Stormont
A loyalist serial killer has been charged with attempting to murder Sinn
Fein leaders during a failed one-man Rambo-style assault on the North’s
Assembly building.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Assembly Meeting Shows DUP
Rift
Attempts by members of the North’s Assembly to put the political process
back on track took a bizarre turn at Stormont last week.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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New Irish Culture Center
Proposed
Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue announced plans
on Monday to set up a new Irish cultural and heritage Center in New York
for the promotion of Irish arts.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Parents Feel Undocumented
Pressure
Jimmy Ryan, 69, a parent of an undocumented resident living in New York
for the past three years, spoke to the Irish Voice about not having his
son with his family for Christmas in Ireland, and his dismay at the slow
pace of change in Washington, D.C. to reform the nation’s immigration laws.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Irish Miracle on 34th Street
By 9 a.m. on what is known by shoppers as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving,
over 1,000 Irish and British tourists had signed the foreign visitors book
at the world’s largest department store, Macys on 34th Street in New York
City. more...
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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Minister Launches
NYU-UCC Scholarship
Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue announced a government-backed
annual scholarship between University College Cork and New York University
worth 50,000 to two students.
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(Irish Voice) 29 November 2006
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ILIR Swings Into Action
THE Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) was back in action last Wednesday
night in Yonkers and last Monday in Queens. Both meetings were exceptionally
well attended. more...
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Diocese Seeks
Irish Retribution
A case centered on the pedophile priest Oliver O’Grady could change the
face of the way in which the Catholic Church is held financially accountable
in child abuse cases by priests around the world.
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Woodlawn Woman Needs Transplant
Woodlawn residents will get together on Sunday, December 3 for an event
to raise funds for a local girl who may possibly die if she doesn't receive
a double lung transplant immediately.
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Children’s Rights Controversy
Brews
Government plans for a pre-general election referendum on children’s rights
may be put on hold following two landmark court decisions.
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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A Sex Fiend Attacks Kids
A hunt for a sinister child sex attacker in a pin-striped suit has been
prompted by assaults on two girl pals, aged four and six, that have shocked
Ireland. more...
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Homeowners Given Protection
Rights
Homeowners driven to kill in defense of their family and property in certain
circumstances should know the law is on their side, the Law Reform commission
has recommended.
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Shock Over Elder Care Abuse
A scandal over how elderly people in care are neglected has been exposed
with a government-backed investigation into the operation of a nursing home
from which a 78-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease and cancer disappeared
last Christmas night. more...
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Trouble Looms for Hain
Northern Secretary Peter Hain looks to be headed for serious trouble after
a High Court judge requested an inquiry into whether he had attempted to
pervert the court of justice more...
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Loyalist Terror Leader Jailed
The reign of terror of a Loyalist paramilitary and police informer has been
ended after he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment Monday.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Another Deadline Broken
To the surprise of no one, Northern Secretary Peter Hain’s “final, final
deadline” for the restoration of the power-sharing Assembly will not be
met. more... |
(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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A Helping Hand for the Homeless
The homeless, like the poor, are always with us. On Thanksgiving, however,
we become particularly aware that not everyone has the sumptuous meal and
happy family scene to look forward to.
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Cork Couple Beats Extradition
Cork couple Tim and Ethel Blake have won their appeal not to be extradited
to the U.S. to face charges of kidnapping their grandson Dylan, but still
face arrest if they return here to see the 12-year-old.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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A Friend Who Changed My Life
I owe Frank Durkan a huge debt, the kind of debt that could never be repaid
with money. more...
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(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Frank Durkan, 1930-2006
The death of Bohola, Co. Mayo native Frank Durkan, 76, from complications
of a lung infection last Thursday brought to an end one of the most unrelenting
and colorful legal careers in the history of Irish America.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Giving Thanks, Irish Style
What do Irish people do for Thanksgiving? APRIL DREW went into the streets
and asked Irish immigrants what their plans are, and what they think of
the traditional American holiday.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 22 November 2006
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Irish Gov’t Seeks Visa
Deal
In his most forthright comments about a bilateral visa deal to date, Irish
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern confirmed last week that his government will
seek a reciprocal arrangement with the U.S. government to secure an annual
flow of workers between the two countries.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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ILIR Begins ‘Countdown
to Victory
THE Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) is suiting up for battle and
beginning a major push for immigration reform now that the midterm election
results are in, and Democrats are in control of the House and Senate, according
to executive director Kelly Fincham.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Pols See New Hope for Reform
“THIS is great news for the Irish undocumented,” commented Kelly Fincham,
executive director of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, (ILIR) speaking
after the Democrats had swept the House and the Senate in the 2006 midterm
elections last week. more...
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Election Cools Homeward Rush
Every year a countless number of Irish undocumented gamble with their lives
in the U.S. by going home for Christmas. Few are able to return, with the
majority receiving a 10-year ban from returning to the U.S.
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Alleged Kid Porn Judge Resigns
A judge at the center of a child porn scandal for four years — although
acquitted by a technicality in a court of wrongdoing — has resigned, forcing
an end to a parliamentary enquiry into allegations against him of misbehavior.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Elder Abuse Could Be Widespread
A government investigator who revealed a litany of abuse of elderly and
infirm patients in a north Co. Dublin private nursing home, Leas Cross,
has said it would be “a very major error” to presume similar outrages hadn’t
occurred elsewhere. more...
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Aer Lingus Chief Watches
Ryanair
AER Lingus boss Dermot Mannion believes that his counterpart in Ryanair,
Michael O’Leary, hasn’t given up on a takeover plan.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Anger Over Shell Violence
FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny has called on locals protesting against a Shell
bid to build a gas pipeline and refinery in Co. Mayo to distance themselves
from outside “aggressive influences.”
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Sinn Fein Ups Security
Over Threats
SENIOR Sinn Fein members have stepped up their personal security following
concerns that they may be targeted for assassination by dissident Republicans.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Doubts Cast at Omagh Bomb
Trial
A LEADING U.S. scientist has thrown serious doubt on prosecution evidence
in the trial of the man accused of involvement in the dissident Real IRA
Omagh bomb tragedy in 1998.
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Adams Says U.S. Support Critical
More than 750 people gathered at Sinn Fein's annual fundraising dinner in
the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week to support the party's efforts
in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, and to listen to a brief by the party's
president Gerry Adams on the progress it was making on moving forward with
the St. Andrews Agreement.
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Funds Sought for Recovered
Burn Child
Recovering eight-year-old burn victim Jessie Stanley, who was flown in an
air ambulance from Cork to Boston last year for skin graft surgery after
her condition continued to worsen in the children’s hospital in Crumlin,
has now returned to Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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Baby Returned to Natural
Parents
The Irish Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a two-year-old girl must be
returned to the custody of her birth parents, overturning a previous ruling
by the High Court that she remain in the custody of her would-be adoptive
parents. more...
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(Irish Voice) 15 November 2006
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U.S. Lifts Adams
Fundraising Ban
THE year-long U.S. fundraising ban on Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams was
lifted last week, and Adams will travel to New York on Wednesday to headline
the party’s annual dinner – an event that is expected to gross in excess
of $500,000. more...
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(Irish Voice) 8 November 2006
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Experts Verify
Loyalist Collusion
POLICE officers and locally-recruited British soldiers helped Loyalist killers
carry out 74 sectarian murders in the first decade of the Irish Troubles,
legal experts have found.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Dissidents Blamed for
Firebombs
FIREBOMB attacks which destroyed one Belfast store and badly damaged two
others have been blamed on dissident Republicans.
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Ahern Blames Times for
Troubles
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern specifically targeted The Irish
Times as the spearhead of a campaign to “bury” his political career.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Child Shot in Limerick
Gang Feud
JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has pledged to smash feuding gangs after
the drive-by shooting of a boy aged five.
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Defending Markievicz’s Honor
A U.S. ARMY veteran who has also written a biography of 1916 heroine Countess
Constance Markievicz has accused her main critic, Dublin-born historian
and writer Ruth Dudley Edwards, of hankering after the days of the rule
of the British empire.
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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New Referendum for Kids
A CONSTITUTIONAL referendum to protect children’s rights, announced unexpectedly
by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern may be penciled in for March, some months ahead
of a general election, according to senior government sources.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Thompson Says Catholics
Underemployed
CATHOLICS are still largely under-represented in some of Northern Ireland’s
largest workplaces, a report by the New York Comptroller William C. Thompson
has found. more...
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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U.S. Seeks Extradition
of Irish Couple
A CORK couple wanted by the state of Illinois for kidnapping their grandson
Dylan Benwell from his home on the outskirts of Chicago now face extradition
from Ireland to the U.S. and prison sentences of up to 30 years if convicted.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Immigration Reform Hopes
Rise
HOPES for immigration reform in 2007 have increased dramatically following
the results of the 2006 midterm elections which showed Democrats making
major gains throughout the U.S.
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Dillon Supports St. Brigid’s
St. BRIGID’S church in the Lower East Village, which the Archdiocese of
New York wants to sell for development against the wishes of local residents
and others, was put back in the spotlight last Sunday night when Academy
Award nominee Matt Dillon and comedian Colin Quinn both pledged their support
for the Famineera church at a fundraiser at Solas bar in the East Village.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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U.S. Loosens J-1 Visa Rules
THOUSANDS more Irish students have been cleared to work in the U.S. for
the summer months after the State Department last week loosened its grip
on restrictions governing the J-1 visa program.
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(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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The Winding Road to U.S.
Success
HOW does a guy who comes to the U.S. at 20, wind up working for one of the
biggest investment firms in the world by the age of 24?
more... |
(Irish Voice) 08 November 2006
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Marine Calls
for Troop Withdrawal
AN Irish American Marine has been fiercely criticized by the White House
and praised by a Democratic senator after going public on his opposition
to the war in Iraq, and setting up an organization of serving soldiers who
oppose it. more...
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Irish Firm
Offers U.S. Health Insurance
THOUSANDS of undocumented Irish people living in the U.S. can't afford to
get sick. Day by day, they remain in fear of an unprepared return to Ireland
due to poor health because they don't hold any medical insurance in the
U.S. more...
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Sisters Convicted
in Shocking Murder
INTERPOL, the international police organisation, has joined the hunt for
Dublin woman Kathleen Mulhall, who fled Ireland before the trial of her
two daughters for the killing of her African lover.
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Countess Called a Show-Off
A NEW study of 1916 heroine Countess Constance Markievicz claims she was
a “blood-thirsty show-off” who brainwashed children into believing they
must die for Ireland. more...
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Cops Bust Huge Heroin
Ring
COPS believe they have inflicted major damage on one of Ireland’s most vicious
drugs gangs after the capture of largest heroin haul ever made in the history
of the state. more...
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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FG Tries, Fails to
Block Ahern
FINE Gael, the main opposition party, has been accused of “a crass act of
political desperation” in a bid to gag Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie
Ahern in the European Parliament.
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Proposed Pope Visit
Angers DUP
HARDLINE anti-Agreement Unionists have warned that Pope Benedict will not
be welcome if he accepts an invitation to visit the North next year.
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Long Kesh Is Demolished
LONG Kesh, one of the world’s most notorious prison camps, is being demolished
to make way for a multi-sports arena and conflict transformation centre.
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Pols Want Brown to Pay
THE North’s political parties mark another “first” when they join forces
to seek huge peace dividend funds from British Chancellor Gordon Brown.
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Running Marathon
for Green Cards
THREE Boston women will take to the streets of New York this Sunday to run
the annual New York City Marathon. While several world-class professional
athletes will compete for the $600,000 prize money, the three Boston ladies
will compete for a moderately smaller number. They are running in the hope
of getting an estimated 50,000 Irish undocumented green cards.
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Korean War Irish Remembered
TWENTY-EIGHT Irishmen who lost their lives in the Korean War fighting for
the U.S. more than 50 years ago were honored last month at the erection
of a memorial in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Seniors Contemplate
Moving to Ireland
SOME 60 Irish-born senior emigrants interested in the possibility of moving
back to Ireland gathered at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City
last week to hear about what’s involved if they decide relocating is right
for them. more...
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Home . . . And Back Home
Again!
Home is where the heart is, and for returned Irish emigrant SAMANTHA MELIA,
that can only be one place – New York.
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Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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Irish
Immigration Coalition Keeps Growing
THE Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers is a very useful ally to the
Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform in the current movement for immigration
reform for the tens of thousands of undocumented Irish in the U.S..
more... |
Irish Voice 1St November 2006
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FAS Fair Draws Huge
Crowds
IRELAND’S status as a go-to destination was firmly solidified last weekend
in New York at the Living and Working in Ireland jobs fair hosted by Irish
employment agency FAS, as an estimated 5,000 visitors made their way to
the Affinia Hotel to check out the opportunities on offer from the Celtic
Tiger and its booming economy.
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Bogus Visa Letters
Warning
IRISH people taking part in the diversity visa lottery should be aware that
there are bogus emails being sent out purportedly offering “lottery winners”
green cards for a specified fee.
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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New Charges Against Owad
CHRISTINE Owad, the immigration racketeer exposed by the Irish Voice last
year, has been charged with six felony counts for fake identity and social
welfare fraud. She was arrested on the latest fraud charges on Wednesday,
October 18. more...
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Minister Calls for Visa Deal
IRISH Minister for Labor Affairs Tony Killeen, who was in New York last
weekend to open the two-day jobs fair hosted by Irish employment agency
FAS, has called for the Irish and U.S. governments to come to terms on a
bilateral visa deal more...
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Irish American Leaders
Urge North Deal
NEW York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Congressman Joe Crowley
of Queens, together with a broad coalition of the city’s Irish American
leaders, have called for immediate steps to be taken towards ensuring peace
in Northern Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Irish Sex in the Big City
FOLLOWING the publication of a study on attitudes towards sex in Ireland,
the Irish Voice this week carried out the first research of its kind on
the Irish in New York between the ages of 18 and 64, with some interesting
results. more...
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Adams Praises New Paisley
Stance
THE most important outcome of the all-party talks in Scotland was that hardline
Unionist leader Ian Paisley said yes, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has
claimed. more...
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(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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MI5 North Base Criticized
THE British government plan to build a new base in the North for its MI5
intelligence agency has run into opposition from a member of a police watchdog
body. more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Ahern: We’ll Pay for the North
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has said the Republic will help
pay for the reconstruction and development of Northern Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Turbulence for Ryanair
Aer Lingus Bid
OPPONENTS of Ryanair’s bid to gain control of recently privatized Aer Lingus
have put more money into shares of the former state owned airline.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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New Road Rules to Cut Carnage
STRINGENT new measures targeting mainly young male drivers are being drafted
by the government in a renewed bid to cut the carnage on Irish roads.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Kennedy Cousin a Hero
A PRIEST cousin of the powerful Irish American Kennedy clan is being hailed
a hero in Ireland after defying a pair of thugs who tried to blackmail him.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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In an Irish State of Mind
FAS, the Irish national training and employment authority, held an immensely
successful jobs fair in New York last weekend that lured nationalities from
all over the world eager to see what the Celtic Tiger has to offer. APRIL
DREW chatted with some of the attendees.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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The Big Homecoming
Former Irish Voice reporter GEORGINA BRENNAN made it home safe and sound
after more than five years in New York, and as she writes here, it’s great
to be back. more... |
(Irish Voice) 25 October 2006
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Paisley Says No
to Adams Meeting
A BRITISH-Irish bid to restore devolved government to the North has stumbled
at the first hurdle after hard-line Loyalist Ian Paisley pulled out of a
crucial meeting. more...
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(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Priest Approached
by Dissidents
THE Belfast priest who married Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley and
Niamh O’Brien on Saturday has been speaking of his shock at being approached
by dissident Republicans.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Irish Shake Sexual Shackles
THE bulk of Irish people are prepared to tolerate abortion in a widening
list of special circumstances -– and the age at which Irish people first
have sex is falling dramatically.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Farmer Freed From Jail
THE family of the traveler killed by farmer Padraig Nally, who was freed
from jail last week, has said he should be retried on a charge of murder.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Ahern Surges in New Poll
AN amazing boost in support for Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern
and his Fianna Fail party has underlined that a week is a long time in politics.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Niall Andrews Dies
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has led tributes from both sides
of the Irish border to Niall Andrews, a member of one of Ireland’s most
distinguished families, who has died aged 68.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Sinn Fein Expect U.S. Fundraising
SINN Fein will make a strong case for being allowed total access to fundraise
in the U.S. after the St. Andrews Agreement last week, party officials say.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Spitzer Seeks Owad Victims
NEW York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s office has made a plea to
all those people who have been victimized by scam immigration practitioner
Christine Owad to come forward.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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U.S. Fugitive Nabbed in Ireland
A U.S. fugitive who fled to Ireland while on bail after alleged involvement
in a Washington State car accident in which three students were killed,
applied for political asylum last week in an effort to avoid extradition.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Irish Trip to Save Her Life
AN Irishwoman settled in Virginia may well have to journey back to Ireland
to be given treatment to save her life as she cannot afford the huge cost
in the U.S. more...
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(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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McCourt the Green Governor
MALACHY McCourt is back on stage with more dramatics and dialogue, but this
time the stage is slightly bigger and the audience much larger.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Undocumented Families
Speak Out
AN innovative new campaign to publicize the plight of the estimated 50,000
undocumented Irish in the U.S. has been gathering pace in Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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Florida Waits for Priest
Return
ONE of two Irish priests accused of misappropriating $8.6 million from parishioners
in Palm Beach, Florida is still at large three weeks after the arrest of
his cohort, a spokesman with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told
the Irish Voice. more...
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(Irish Voice) 18 October 2006
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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.”
more... |
(Irish Voice)11 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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Ahern, McDowell Agree to Lead
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern and Tanaiste(Deputy Leader) Michael
McDowell are set to continue to lead their coalition government into the
middle of next year despite a rift that threatened the administration.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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. more...
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(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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 Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) report last
week. more...
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(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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, the Guinness Ulster
hurling final and the Martin Donnelly football final, formerly the Railway
Cop. more...
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(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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Murder-Suicide Irish Man
Dies
IRISHMAN Dermot Reid, who shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun
on himself last month, died on Tuesday, October 3, in Florida of his injuries.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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Pedophile 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 of
his pedophile ways may lead to the prosecution of a U.S. cardinal.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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Walsh in Close Battle for
Seat
REPUBLICAN Congressman Jim Walsh, longtime head of the Friends of Ireland
group in Congress, is in a tight race for re-election in his upstate New
York district. more...
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(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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O’Malley in Front in Maryland
MARTIN O’Malley, the mayor of Baltimore who is running for governor of the
state of Maryland, holds a 12 point lead in his race to unseat incumbent
governor Bob Ehrlich. more...
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(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 11 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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
after what police say was a domestic quarrel.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.?
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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Irish Extras Praise
Scorsese’s ‘Departed’
MARTIN Scorsese’s highly anticipated film about the Irish Mafia, The Departed,
opens this Friday nationwide, with an all-star cast including Leonardo di
Caprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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Morning Drunks Targeted
MOTORISTS throughout Ireland face a blitz of early morning random drunk
driving checks as the government steps up its campaign to cut down on road
accident deaths. more...
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(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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Aer Lingus Successfully
Floats
AER Lingus share values dipped slightly – 1.2% – at the end of the first
day’s official trading on the Dublin and London stock exchanges following
its flotation last week.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 4 October 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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. more...
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(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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Cancer Survivor Left
With Huge Debt
IRISH organizations are rallying behind a two-time cancer survivor who has
been left with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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. more...
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(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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Ahern Discusses
Darfur, Middle East at UN
IRISH Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has warned the Sudanese
government that they will be held collectively and individually responsible
for the fate of the people of Darfur if it refuses to allow the deployment
of UN personnel in the region.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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O’Cealleagh Deported from
LA
AN Irish bartender in Los Angeles who has been in jail fighting his removal
from the U.S. has been deported.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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 totaling
£39,000 Irish punts from friends wishing to help him cope with the financial
ramifications of separating from his wife Miriam.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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Tighter Immigrant Rules
Coming
IRELAND is set to tighten immigration rules prior to Romania and Bulgaria
joining the EU on January 1 next year.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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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. more...
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(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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Stepping Out, Standing Tall
A devastating spinal cord injury has spurred an Irish woman to create a
new group dedicated to promoting stem cell research. The first person who
needs convincing, she feels? President Bush.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 27 September 2006
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McAllister Gets
Breathing Room
THE Department of Homeland Security, in a quiet goodwill gesture, has agreed
to give Malachy McAllister breathing space while his case works through
the courts. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 September 2006
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Financial
Dynamics in $260 Million Deal
PUBLIC relations giant Financial Dynamics has been sold for $260 million
to FTI Consulting, Inc.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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ILIR Lobbies on Capitol Hill
THE Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) was back in the nation’s capital
last Thursday to unite with immigrant rights advocates for a rally at the
National Mall, and after in a march calling for legislation that would provide
a path to legal citizenship for an estimated 12 million undocumented in
the U.S more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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Annie Moore Story Debunked
ONE of the best-loved stories about Irish emigration to the U.S., the story
of Annie Moore, is about to be debunked.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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McIntyre Family Awarded
Millions
EMILY McIntyre, mother of the infamous IRA gunrunner John McIntyre, who
was arrested during an unsuccessful arms smuggling operation aboard a Gloucester
fishing boat, The Valhalla, was awarded $3.1 million by U.S. District Judge
Reginald C. Lindsay on September 5.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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The Dress Made Just for Me
In the second installment of her wedding planning/ moving to Ireland saga,
GEORGINA BRENNAN talks about the dress shopping and container packing consuming
her time this month. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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Ulster Unionists
Ordered to Sever Links
EMBARRASSED Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leaders were attempting to regroup
Tuesday after being told they must sever their links with a party connected
to a Loyalist paramilitary group.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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IMC Says IRA Committed
to Politics
THE IRA has kept its command structure but “is not engaged in terrorist
activity,” according to the latest report of a body set up to monitor the
Republican and Loyalist ceasefires.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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McDowell
Pledges Support to Coalition
MICHAEL McDowell’s first pledge as new leader of the Progressive Democrats
was that the party will continue in power with Fianna Fail after next year’s
general election.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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Neighbors Cash in for Millions
AN entire neighborhood has cashed in on Ireland’s amazing property boom
by putting all its homes on the market at the same time.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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Fireman Under Siege
A LITANY of assaults and other life-threatening attacks on firemen has stunned
the citizens of Dublin. more...
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(Irish Voice) 13 Setember 2006
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Parties Get
Set for Election Rumble
GENERAL election fever is in the air in Ireland. What the national papers
are referring to as “a $4 billion war chest” — the predicted giveaway in
the December budget — has fuelled belief that an election campaign is already
underway.. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Mortem Mix Up at Beaumont
BEAUMONT Hospital, one of the best-equipped hospitals in Ireland, has launched
an investigation into how an additional heart and set of lungs were inside
the body of a man returned to Britain after a post mortem examination carried
out in the Dublin hospital last month.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Study Pays for Drug Use
SCIENTISTS at Trinity College in Dublin were under attack this week for
offering $40 vouchers to entice Ecstasy users to take part in a study on
the brain. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Westport Cleans Up Nice
GO west for order and tidiness in Ireland. That’s the message from the annual
Tidy Towns contest which this week was won by Westport, Co. Mayo.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Irishman Loses Deportation
Battle
AN Irishman in Los Angeles has lost his fight against deportation.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Neutral Venue Set for Talks
THE Irish and British prime ministers are to host an intense round of “hot
house” negotiations outside the North in a bid to meet the November deadline
for the return of the Assembly.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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GAA Nixes Sinn Fein Tickets
THE GAA decision not to provide Sinn Fein with tickets to this year’s All-Ireland
football and hurling finals has been derided by a senior party member.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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A Journey Towards Peace
Ron Clifford was in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when the
plane carrying his sister and niece crashed into it. The five years that
have passed since the terrorist attack have helped him to cope with the
horrific tragedy. GEORGINA BRENNAN spoke with Clifford about his journey.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Rushing to the Rescue
EVEN though his friends call him a hero, Steve McSweeney, 32, said his only
motivation for running into the rescue efforts of September 11 was his family.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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‘A Defining Moment
in My Life’
BUSINESSMAN and Co. Kerry native Denis Kelleher remembers it now as “one
of the most defining moments of my life.”
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Where They Were on 9/11
IF you are old enough then you will know that anyone alive during the events
of 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, will always remember
the events of that shocking day. And similarly, there is no doubt that any
person awake on September 11, 2001, will remember exactly where they were
and what they were doing. more...
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(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Memories Too Painful to Watch
’VE seen a lot of terrible things in my career as a correspondent — villagers
killed in East Timor, children shot dead in South Africa, bodies crushed
by an earthquake in Armenia. You get hardened after a while. It’s what you
do. It’s a job. You get upset but you don’t think too much about it and
you move on, to other stories.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 06 September 2006
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Katrina
Overwhelms Famed Irish Pub
LAST year, press photos flashed around the world of Danny O’Flaherty and
his son loading Connemara curragh fishing boats into his New Orleans Irish
pub. more...
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(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Families
Struggles With Iraq Death
ON Monday of last week, Elizabeth Doherty received a letter from her brother,
Michael Glover, telling her that he was excited to be traveling through
Shannon, Ireland when he returned from Iraq in October.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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St. Brigid’s Supporters
Get Reprieve
SUPPORTERS of St. Brigid’s Church in lower Manhattan received a reprieve
last Thursday in State Supreme Court, when Manhattan Supreme Court Justice
Barbara Kapnick issued an extension of the temporary restraining order preventing
the Archdiocese of New York from continuing with its plans to knock the
East Village Irish Famine church in favor of new development.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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McCourt Files for Governor
IRISH author and raconteur Malachy McCourt, has filed his election papers
in his bid to be the next New York governor admitting that he had “no chance
of winning.” more...
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(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Irish Paydirt Hits the
U.S.
A PAIR of entrepreneurs are coming to the U.S. in September to launch a
new product called Irish dirt.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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AOH Expulsion Bid Stopped
THE former president of the southern Manhattan AOH, Sean Wilson, attempted
to expel three highly prominent members of the Catholic group because they
refused to back him in his quest to have his child’s surname changed.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Going to Get Married
After 5 1/2 years at the Irish Voice, GEORGINA BRENNAN is leaving. Not content
to just go, she is planning a wedding, renovating a home and changing countries
all at the same time. Here she begins a series of features about planning
a wedding from 3,000 miles away and trying to pack up a home at the same
time. more...
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(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Owad Still on the Loose
CHRISTINE Owad, the woman who scammed hundreds of undocumented Irish people
into believing they were obtaining legal status, is still walking free.
It is estimated that she scammed Irish of sums over $1 million.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
|
Group Says British
Made Human Bomb
THE IRA’s deadly “human bomb” tactic of tying a civilian to the wheel of
his explosives-laden vehicle was devised by a British intelligence agency,
a human rights group has claimed.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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SF, DUP Agree on Powers
A SURPRISE agreement on policing and justice has been reached by the North’s
political parties sitting on the Preparation for Government Committee.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Aer Lingus Set for Sale
THE government is to sell off part of its share in Aer Lingus but critics
say the flotation price which will value the company at up to $1.2 billion
is too low. more...
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(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Gov’t to Get Tough on Immigration
TAOISEACH (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has been warned his government could
be taken to court if it persists with plans to bar Romanians and Bulgarians
from traveling to work in Ireland when their countries become members of
the European Union next January. more...
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(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Casey Won’t Be Prosecuted
FORMER Bishop of Galway Dr. Eamonn Casey is not to be prosecuted following
investigation by Gardai (police) into allegations made against him by a
Limerick-born woman.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 30 August 2006
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Bloomberg
Says Legalize the Irish
NEW York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged on Tuesday to campaign for
a better deal for undocumented Irish in the U.S.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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St. Brigid’s
Battle Back in Court
PARISHIONERS, local residents and supporters of Irish Famine history turned
out in droves at Solas bar and lounge in Manhattan on Friday night for a
fundraiser for the 158-year-old St. Brigid’s church in the East Village,
which is in immediate danger of demolition.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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ILIR Gears Up for Fall
Fight
CONGRESS might be on summer recess, but the Irish Lobby For Immigration
Reform (ILIR) is still toiling away.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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ILIR Kept out of
Florida Hearing
MEMBERS of ILIR were kept out of a public immigration hearing in Lake Worth,
Florida held by the House Ways and Means Committee which was entitled, “Immigration,
Border Security, and Its Impact on Social Service Within the Ways and Means
Committee’s Jurisdiction.”
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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Drunk Irishman Crashes
Into Wall
AN Irishman in a drunken haze led police on a chase through Maine’s largest
city street last week in an effort to evade capture.more...
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(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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Belfast Man Dies After
Fall
A MAN who plummeted to his death after falling off a rickety old spiral
stairway in Boston has been identified. Martin Lenaghan, 27, from Belfast,
was on vacation when the accident happened, according to police in Boston.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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Outrage Over
ABC Irish Terrorist Claim
IRISH Americans flooded the ABC switchboard this week complaining that that
its Primetime show which aired last Thursday had called an Irish woman the
last known terrorist to try and bomb an Israeli plane.
more...
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(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Aussie Rose Crowned
in Tralee
“I HAVE to pinch myself,” gushed 23-year-old Queensland Rose Kathryn Feeney
as she was crowned International Rose of Tralee 2006.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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Marchers Must
Talk to Nationalists
THE North’s Orange Order and other Loyal marching groups have been told
they must give up their policy of refusing to talk to Nationalists whose
neighborhoods they want to march through.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Police End Electoral
Probe
POLICE have been heavily criticized for dropping their investigation into
a “dirty tricks” electoral scam designed to steal votes from one of the
North’s small political parties.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Sinn Fein Seeks
More Cross-Border Activity
ANTI-Agreement Unionists have been warned of increasing involvement of cross-border
bodies regardless of whether they meet the November deadline for restoring
devolved government.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Ireland Won’t
Commit Forces to Lebanon
IRELAND won’t be committing troops to UN peacekeeping forces in the Lebanon
– at least not in the early stages of the new peace stabilization force
in the region. more...
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(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Corrupt Cop to Retire
A DISGRACED police officer found by the Morris Tribunal to have been a central
figure in corrupt Garda (police) practices in Donegal although acquitted
by two criminal trial juries is to retire on September 12.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
|
Lost Ashes Returned
to Widow
A WIDOW lost half her dead husband’s ashes when she presumed she wouldn’t
be permitted take them aboard a Ryanair flight as hand luggage because of
the toughened security measures prompted by the suspected terrorist plot
against trans-Atlantic jets.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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Lap Dance Parties Banned
MORE than 50 Irish companies have banned staff from organizing corporate
hospitality events in lap dance clubs.
more... |
(Irish Voice) 23 August 2006
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