It is being called a masterful stroke of Irish negotiation. A deal avoiding the repayment of €3.1bn in Anglo debt due at the end of the month between the Government and the European Central Bank. The agreement was confirmed today by Finance Minister Michael Noonan who has headed up negotiations on the debt with...
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As tough as it is to imagine, the first anniversary of Northern Ireland Police Officer Ronan Kerr’s murder approaches, and his mother Nuala said her son’s killers must to be brought to justice, and she said there were people in the community who could help her family get justice. Officer Kerr, just 25 years...
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Ireland’s colorful former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is no longer listed as a speaker on the website of the prestigious Washington Speakers Bureau. He had been available for speaking engagements along with other high profile former politicians, including Tony Blair, George W. Bush and John Major. Mr. Ahern remained on the website as recently...
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We’ve all heard it before. The routine use of antibiotics in common products like soaps, cold medicine and first aid kits has limited their effectiveness or completely eliminated their ability to work as originally designed. Now it’s been discovered that your every day over the counter antibiotics could be “resuscitated” to make them more...
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One of this writer’s favorite whiskies as well as of the world’s best-sellers is returning to its roots with a distillery reopening near the site where it was born. Fifteen permanent jobs and at least 100 construction workers will be required when Tullamore Dew production returns to Tullamore, Co. Offaly, for the first time...
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It’s tough times for the ‘flying shamrock’ and their ticketed passengers as Aer Lingus has been forced to cancel four flights tomorrow due to a major country-wide labor strike in Spain. The cancelled flights are round trips from Cork and Belfast to Malaga, according to a spokesman. All other Aer Lingus flights to and...
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It’s hard enough trying to get all your kids into the car keeping them clean, quiet and entertained, without the hassle of finding a suitable restaurant. While it’s common place in America for a restaurant to include a kids menu, most of the restaurants on mainland Europe don’t expect kids to show up at...
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With diesel engines come many rewards. Gone is the foul sulphur odor, cold start up problems and loud knocking sound of older diesel engine technology and today in many cases the diesel engine will easily out-perform a hybrid vehicle in fuel savings as well as outright purchase price. In Ireland fuel is sold by...
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For Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny and Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, this one is for all the marbles. The government of Ireland cannot afford to receive anything but a mandate from it’s people to accept the treaty or risk losing the EU’s confidence and funding. Eamon Gilmore announced the date in the Dáil...
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