Irish Top EU League of Young People Taking Part in Sport

Irish Top EU League of Young People Taking Part in Sport

More Irish young people take part in sport than any other nationality in the EU. A new survey of young Europeans’ lifestyles found that 42% of Ireland’s youth are involved in sport compared to the EU average of 29%. It...
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Government Denies Plans to Remove State Pension

Government Denies Plans to Remove State Pension

The Government has categorically ruled out any prospect of abolishing the state pension. It is in response to media coverage of a new report in which a member of the Pensions Authority raised the prospect of the State Pension being...
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Altan Announces Tour And New Album

Altan Announces Tour And New Album

After thirty years of playing on stages all over the world from Dublin to New York, Tokyo to Sydney, the premier traditional Irish band, Altan came back to the hills of Donegal to record their new album, ‘The Gap of...
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Celtic Woman’s New CD/DVD ‘Homecoming’ is Out Now

Celtic Woman’s New CD/DVD ‘Homecoming’ is Out Now

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O’Hara To Be Honored With Oscar Wilde Award

O’Hara To Be Honored With Oscar Wilde Award

Catherine O’Hara joins Mark Hamill, Paula Malcomson and Barry Keoghan as a recipient of a US-Ireland Alliance Oscar Wilde Award. The event will be held on 1 March at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot in Santa Monica. Trina Vargo, founder and...
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PSNI Chief Warns of Brexit Dangers

PSNI Chief Warns of Brexit Dangers

No visible progress has been made on replacing critical EU policing frameworks that enable close cross-border co-operation between officers in Ireland, Northern Ireland’s chief constable has warned. George Hamilton said there would be “very real op...
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United Fall Further Behind City after Spurs Defeat

United Fall Further Behind City after Spurs Defeat

Christian Eriksen scored within 11 seconds as Tottenham brushed aside a below-par Manchester United tonight to seal a crunch 2-0 victory in the race for the top four. Eriksen’s strike, coming after four Spurs passes, is the third fastest in...
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Bournemouth Spank Chelsea on Transfer Deadline Day

Bournemouth Spank Chelsea on Transfer Deadline Day

Bournemouth scored three goals in 16 remarkable second-half minutes to record a sensational 3-0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening. Callum Wilson opened the scoring for the visitors shortly after the interval before Junior Stanisla...
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Out & About

Out & About

I was at the Irish American Society of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens (297 Willis Avenue, Mineola; (516) 746-9392) to see Betty McLaughlin receiving the honor as the New Mayo Society President. I have to hand it to this woman who...
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Irish Gin Exports Hit New High in 2017

Irish Gin Exports Hit New High in 2017

The growing demand for Irish gin is not expected to slow down as the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI) predict exports are set to rise significantly this year. According to the ABFI, who have released their outlook for 2018,...
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