She’s stunning to look at and posseses a fair amount of shockingly quick-witted Irish character…Eve Hewson is also no stranger to celebrity, you see because she has U2’s Bono and Ali Hewson as her parents. But the young actress has admitted to being starstruck – not to mention terrified – at the prospect of...
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Montana’s Governor Brian Schweitzer is visiting Ireland this week and on Friday he met with Pat Rabbitte, the Energy Minister of Ireland. Acccording to Governor Schweitzer’s spokesperson, the two discussed strategies to help ensure that the reserves of renewable energy held by both Ireland and Montana are fully realized. After their meeting, Governor Schweitzer...
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We’re calling them ‘The 300′. They are from every walk of Irish life, they’re mightily fiscally fit and they’re well able to enjoy it. The 300 richest people in Ireland are worth more than €62bn. That’s almost as much as the entire IMF/EU bailout itself. It’s also more than the combined value of the...
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Ireland overcame Scotland 32-14 in a pounding Six Nations encounter today after scoring four tries against one for the visitors to claim their third victory of the tournament. Tonights match at Aviva Stadium was a dry and some say warm evening with Ireland rightly pounding out a victory over Scotland. Coach Philip Doyle’s Irishmen...
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The ‘Baron of Ballsbridge’, also known as property developer Sean Dunne, is now facing the prospect of bankruptcy after he agreed to court orders directing him to repay more than €185 to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). The toxic loans agency was given permission by the courts to enforce the order if needs...
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A young and newly married man, Tom Fitzgerald was only starting out with his building supply business in 1968 when he first heard talk that something unusual was going to take place in Dingle in Kerry. That something turned out to be the arrival of award winning film director David Lean and his crew....
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The Irish Government is reportedly establishing a “high-level” delegation to engage with the European Commission in an effort to find a solution to the controversy surrounding the ban on turf cutting on 53 bogs. In Ireland bog turf fields are dug up and the contents cut into bricks known as peat, which are then...
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The captain of a rather tiny cargo ship that collided with a massive passenger ferry in Belfast Lough last night has been charged with having excess alcohol in his system. Miroslaw Pozniak, the 55-year-old man with an address in Poland, was arrested this morning. He spoke through an interpreter at a magistrates’ court in...
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There has been a significant uptick in the number of students from Britain and Northern Ireland applying for college-level places in Ireland. Initial Central Applications Office (CAO) data shows a 27% rise in the number of UK applications, bringing the total number applying here to almost 2,500. This sudden interest in studying in the...
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