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Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern T.D., has said the statistics on recorded crime in the first quarter of 2009 - released by the Central Statistics Office last week - show encouraging trends Read more...
Admiral Thad W Allen, the Commandant of the US Coast Guard (USCG) has paid a courtesy visit to meet the Director of the Irish Coast Guard, Chris Reynolds this week... Read more...
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There were 7,839,000 Overseas Visits to Ireland in the year 2008, compared with 8,012,000 in 2007, a decrease of 2%. This marks the first time that visits abroad have exceeded visits to Ireland since reporting began in 1952 Read more...
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The employment rate for women in Ireland was 60.5% in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 48.1% in 1998. This rapid increase means that Ireland already exceeds the EU 2010 target of 60% Read more...
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Not so long ago, Irish rock music suffered from an identity crisis, but not in the conventional sense of the term, whereby it did not know what it wanted to be. Rather, Irish rock music was simply too Irish, immediately identifiable as an Irish product, and therefore of limited appeal to markets outside of Ireland... Read more...
Once upon a time, long ago and very far away when Rock'n'Roll was new born, Bill Haley was King and music was played by musicians, a rebellious dream spread its youthful influence across the dance halls of Ireland... Read more...
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There have been many pleasant surprises since the inauguration of President Obama on the issues of terrorism and the continuing fight against totalitarian Islam, including the rumors that military tribunals may be restarted at Guantanamo Bay and the Administration's renewed focus on the Afghanistan front... Read more...
Damn you, Internet! When I heard that our Beloved Leaders in Government were to be given priority in receiving inoculations for the Swine Flu I was hoping to be the first to say that they were an obvious choice as most of the country believes them to be a shower of swine in any case and therefore likely to be the first casualties... Read more...
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Roisin Fitzpatrick - Artist of the Light has launched a solo exhibition at the Ward-Nasse Gallery (178 Prince Street in Soho), for the entire month of May... Read more...
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Well, May is upon us already and that means a busy season is coming with a lot of special events planned, starting with The American Ireland Fund's 34th Annual New York Dinner Gala where over a 1,000 guests will gather at the Tent at Lincoln Center this Thursday... Read more...
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Leinster reached their first Heineken Cup Final as they shocked tournament favourites Munster in front of a world-record crowd for a club match Read more...
On April 26th Iona's Ashling Baker ran the 400 meters at Yale University's Springtime Invitational. The Gael burst the 400m in 1:12.73 giving her that extra power run in preparation for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship on the weekend just gone... Read more...
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