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A delegation from Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, headed by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and including DUP Finance Minister Peter Robinson was in the U.S. last week to advertise the fact that the North was "open for business" again Read more...
Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern, T.D., vowed to continue the fight to secure citizenship for thousands of illegal Irish in America after the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill failed to achieve cloture in the U.S. for the second time Read more...
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Speaking at a meeting of EU Environment Ministers in Luxembourg last week, the new Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr. John Gormley T.D., indicated Ireland's opposition to proposals to introduce GM products Read more...
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The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr Eamon Ryan, T.D., and his Northern counterpart Energy Minister, Nigel Dodds, MLA MP, welcomed this week's announcement by the Energy Regulators of a Single Wholesale Electricity Market Read more...
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Most of those who succeed in finding a career in music get there as the result of hard graft and an unyielding desire to achieve their dream, regardless of setbacks or dissuasion. Not so for Róisín (pronounced: Ro-sheen) Murphy, whose profession in music came as the result of a chat-up line, delivered by her at a party over a decade ago... Read more...
As the mother of Irish rock music's greatest icon, Philomena Lynott has a position of utmost respect in the Irish rock fraternity, but this goodwill does not apparently extend to some of those in the lower echelons of the Irish music industry... Read more...
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To read some papers and editorials you'd swear that the desire to halt the march of time was a recent thing. As long as human beings have existed they've striven to defend themselves against the ravages of old age or indeed to turn back the clock altogether... Read more...
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The 13th Annual Catskills Irish Arts Week (July 15-21) celebrates the rich musical heritage of the Irish in New York for a magical week every summer in East Durham in Greene County Read more...
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IBA middleweight champion "Ireland's" John Duddy closes training camp this week in the Pocono Mountains, where he's been preparing for his first pro fight in Ireland, headlining "The Homecoming" July 14 in Dublin Read more...
In one of the best finals in modern times Cork rather unluckily surrendered their title to Kerry by a slender two-point margin at Killarney on Sunday... Read more...
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