Come out to New York’s Pier 1 to enjoy a day of great Irish dancing! Happening Sunday, May 6 from 1-8pm. Led by Artistic Director Niall O’Leary, TCRG, ADCRG, the Festival is now a start-of-summer tradition when it kicks off the Summer on the Hudson series at Riverside Park South! This celebration of Irish...
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A bright young lad from Co Meath has become the first Irish person to be accepted into the prestigious Vienna Boys’ Choir. Eleven-year old Evan Pyne from Dunboyne was invited to join the choral group two months ago after a week-long audition in Austria’s capital Evan already has a string of awards and scholarships...
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Police in Dundalk, Ireland are seeking the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old Romanian girl and her two daughters. Cosmina Tersanschi was last seen on Emer Terrace at 9.20am yesterday. Cosmina has two infant daughters, Rebecca, aged two, and Rahaela, aged 11 months. Cosmina was last seen wearing a black and grey jumper and...
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Hoping and praying for a breezy start, the 2012 Lexus Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race gets underway on the 27th of April and though family and friends of racers won’t all be sailing in the race, everyone can participate in many of the race events and welcome the boats as they arrive in Ensenada....
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This week’s announcement of a new broadcasting standard for Europe will likely have slipped under your radar but it could have massive implications for how broadcasters treat content and how viewers consume it. Spearheaded by NorDig, the parent broadcasting organisation for the Nordic region, HbbTV (hybrid broadcast broadband television) is set for roll-out in...
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Ireland’s budget deficit for 2011 has increased, because of the recapitalisation of the banks last year. Figures from the EU statistical agency Eurostat show that Ireland’s deficit last year was 13.1% of GDP. Without the extra capital committed to the banks, the deficit would have been 9.4% – below the EU/IMF target of 10.6%....
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A 13-month-old baby boy will be flown to the U.S. on an Irish Government jet today for life-changing emergency surgery. Sergio O’Connor, who has suffered from a rare digestive syndrome since birth, will be treated at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has an incomplete oesophagus – which prevents him from eating, drinking or swallowing. The...
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From the April 2012 Times.com story With his crimson cassock, wide grin and rotund good cheer, Timothy Dolan, 62, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, seems a figure out of the age of the old movies Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary’s — a warm prelate who leads his flock...
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On this day in 1775, Paul Revere sprinted on horseback across Boston to Lexington in order to warn of impending British troops. In 1774 and the Spring of 1775 Paul Revere was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and...
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