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Preliminary results from Tourism Ireland for 2006 suggest that 8.8 million visitors will have visited the island of Ireland this year, an increase of 8.5% compared to last year Read more...
History was debated as well as being made, in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday, when Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and the DUP's Ian Paisley had direct exchanges across the floor of the debating chamber for the first time Read more...
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The Irish Treasury is set to record the biggest surplus since the end of the last century, at the height of the Celtic Tiger period, after Exchequer figures published early this week showing that the Government has collected nearly €3.8 billion more than expected in taxes so far this year Read more...
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From a 7-minute interval performance at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Dublin in 1994, Riverdance became one of the top box office shows, mesmerizing world wide audiences in America, Europe and Asia Read more...
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Perhaps no other band in the storied history of Irish rock music has had a career path that even approaches that of Dublin act, The Frames. In a career spanning 16 years, they have seen more labels than Naomi Campbell, shed more members than a Japanese kamikaze society, been lauded as the next big thing and then derisively panned as yesterday's men, only to return to the forefront of Irish rock music again and again Read more...
As far as I can ascertain, there is only one civic thing that all citizens are eligible for, and that's jury duty, yet almost everybody tries everything they can to get out of it Read more...
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John Mooney takes a look at While Mem'ry Brings Us Back Again, a book recounting the personal histories of 35 Irish immigrants who arrived in America between 1927-1964 and the Aisling Irish Community Center Read more...
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Mike Bowen brings you all the latest from Irish-Australia plus a look at the trials and tribulations in designing and building your new dream home... Read more...
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They had mortally cut each other like the Kilkenny cats which had been tied together by the Hessians during their occupation of the marble city in the '98 rebellion. A bit of Ireland died in Saipan in 2002 Read more...
In a packed Florian Hall last Saturday night, the GAA community of Boston came out in full force to celebrate the achievements of the best home based players for the 2006 season Read more...
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