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Higgins calls for fair deal for the Irish in US
There are an estimated 50,000 Irish people currently residing undocumented in the US. “These people have no voice and often exist in low income under the radar employment,” Jim Higgins MEP said this week. “Despite their valuable contribution to the US exchequer they are considered criminals. These are decent hardworking people are do not deserve to be tarnished in this manner.”
Henry Rollins - Still angry after all these years (but courteous with it!)
SINGER, SONGWRITER, spoken-word artist, publisher, radio DJ, actor, globetrotter, TV documentarist and social campaigner; not for nothing has Henry Rollins being described as a ‘post-punk renaissance man’.
Free speech - not something our councillors seem to believe in
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny used the words dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, and narcissism in describing the culture dominating the Vatican with regard to the cover-ups of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, and rightly so.
Council honours O’Neill’s achievements at monthly meeting
Kilkenny County Council paid tribute to new senator Pat O’Neill’s achievements in being elected to the Seanad at this month’s meeting of Kilkenny County Council.
Kyne, Cannon, and Higgins - Are they Galway’s rising political stars
The dust has settled; the new Government has come through its first 100 days; Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and US president Barack Obama have been and gone; Garrett the Good, Declan Costello, and Brian Lenihan - three icons of Irish politics - have passed to their eternal reward. What a first six months of 2011 this has been.
Corrib Princess’s Irish coffee champ sets sights on White House
Newly crowned Irish Coffee making champion Roisin Sweeney, of the Galway-based Corrib Princess, could be demonstrating her skills to US President Barack Obama during next year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations.
Tourism Minister warns industry to ‘pass cost savings to tourists – or else’
The Junior Minister for Tourism has issued a stern warning to all involved in the tourism trade to give the consumer the benefit of recent Government cost reductions, or those reductions could be reversed in next December’s budget.
Tourism Minister warns industry to ‘pass cost savings to tourists – or else’
The Junior Minister for Tourism has issued a stern warning to all involved in the tourism trade to give the consumer the benefit of recent Government cost reductions, or those reductions could be reversed in next December’s budget.
Defence Forces bill for Queen and Obama visits was good value — Calleary
Ireland’s Defence Forces’ bill for the visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Barack Obama came to €1.7 million, according to Fianna Fáil spokesperson on Justice, Equality and Defence Dara Calleary.
Kilkenny boy rings the bell for Obama
A Kilkenny boy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime when he was invited to ring the peace bell during a tree-planting ceremony carried out by President Barack Obama at Aras an Uachtarain.
