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Regional Round-up
Local Irish reporting culled from various regional publications.
McCain to ILIR — Let’s Get it Done!
SENATOR John McCain electrified an audience of more than 2,000 at an Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) town hall meeting in the Bronx last Friday.
Beckett’s words to light up the capital’s skyline
THE WORDS of Irish literary legend Samuel Beckett are set to light up the London skyline later this week.
Senate Divided Over Guest Worker Plans
Though majority support exists for the guest worker program authored by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy, the required number of 60 votes to prevent a filibuster has so far proven elusive.
Irish Gov’t Supports Conference
The Irish government announced an allocation of $35,000 for the annual conference of the Coalition of Irish Immigration.
Donaldson Recalled by U.S. Activists
U.S.-BASED Republican activist Gabriel Megahey, a long time enemy of British spy Denis Donaldson, has said there is “absolutely no way” that the IRA would have sanctioned Donaldson’s killing.
Gov’t Set to Sell Aer Lingus
THE Irish government has decided to sell off most of its stake in
Aer Lingus, but is to retain a 25% share in the company.
Electorate Wants United Ireland
IRISH voters are overwhelmingly in favor of a united Ireland, but few are in a hurry to see it happen.
Leaders Meet in Armagh
THE latest bid by the Irish and British governments to restore devolved government to the North looks doomed to failure even before the premiers arrive for talks this week.
Free travel — it could be here in months
FREE travel for Irish pensioners visiting home could be in place by the end of the year.
Farmer set to donate land for Travellers community
AN ELDERLY bachelor farmer is giving away his land worth ¤1.6million to the local Traveller community.
Concern as school bus crash leaves one dead
A 15-YEAR-old boy was killed and dozens more students injured in a road crash involving a school bus in Co. Offaly.
THE IRISH INVASION!
THE SCRAMBLE has started in preparation for the biggest Irish sporting event in Britain this year.
Working wonders: How to turn £70,000 into £7m
HE MADE his name interviewing the stars of stage and screen — but can he halt the mounting carnage on Ireland’s roads?
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New role for angel Gabriel
Actor Gabriel Byrne has worked in the worlds of film, literature
and theatre. But recently the star has become more renowned for
his work with Irish charity UNICEF.
Daniel Day Lewis’s eccentric new role
Irish actor Daniel Day Lewis stars alongside Camilla Belle and Catherine Keener in Rebecca Miller’s movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Samuel Beckett centenary festival gets under way
The festival marking the centenary of the birth of literary legend Samuel Beckett this month was launched in fabulous style last week with U2 frontman Bono taking to the stage.
Bono Says Ciao to Italian Leader
Bono wrote Berlusconi a letter last week taking him to task for sneakily implying that he had a rock star endorsement.
Sinead’s Catfight
IRISH singers Sinead O’Connor and Mary Coughlan are staging their
own nearly middle-aged version of Girls Gone Wild.
CD Reviews,
Books Reviews, Theatre Reviews
Latest Entertainment
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Munster through to face dazzling Leinster
Irish rugby has got the semi-final that we all hoped for but barely dared to dream it would come about.
Cats Exact Some Revenge
Galway 0-10 Kilkenny 1-16.
Minister Says Wise Up
MINISTER for Sport John O’Donoghue has told the GAA diehards still opposed to international soccer and rugby at Croke Park next year to cop on and accept the inevitable.
GAA Shorts
A quick round up of the rest of the GAA football and hurling news.
Irate Villa fans bay for O’Leary’s blood
DAVID O’LEARY is walking a tightrope at Aston Villa and appears to be just one inept game from getting the sack after last weekend’s 5-0 thrashing at Arsenal.
Against the Head
Wasps and Ireland star JOHNNY O’CONNOR writes exclusively for The Irish Post.
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County champions
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Benefits of Pulling Together
ONE of the most successful aspects of the current drive for immigration reform is the manner in which the Irish government and the Irish lobby effort are working together.
McGahern Writes Final Chapter
THE acclaimed Irish author John McGahern — universally recognized as Ireland’s greatest living writer — died suddenly in the Mater Hospital in Dublin last Thursday. By John Spain
Irish Boost for Cinderella Coach
ALL of America seems to be rooting for underdog George Mason University in the college basketball Final Four tournament, which concludes this coming Monday.
Intelligencer
McCain Needs Three Votes - Cornyn’s Irish Roots - Gillespie Sounds the Alarm - Caution Still Urged - A Credit to Bill
A Bygone Era Thrives in Cork
Cormac MacConnell keeps the storytelling tradition alive in the west of Ireland.
Not a Normal Politician
YOU can usually tell a lot about a politician by how his staffers act around him. The more clueless the candidate the more likely the staff are to fuss and cluck and insist on overseeing every minute detail of his or her appearances.
USCIS Prepares
SO what happens if a temporary worker program, now being debated in Congress, actually winds up on President Bush’s desk for a signature?
Recipes
for St. Patrick's Day
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year, try either of these two
simple salads, both deliciously Irish with touches of local cheese
and whiskey.
Sláinte agus go marfaidh sibh an céad. Good health
and may you outlive one hundred years!
- Ploughman's Lunch with Tomato-Raisin Chutney
- Salmon and Crabmeat Roulades
Anois agus Arís
Could Liverpool have been the scene of one of the greatest mass murders ever committed against Irish people during the long colonial history of English rule?
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Waiting
for Beckett
As Ireland celebrates the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett
this coming April, Mark Axelrod recalls his meeting with the famed
writer and Nobel Prize recipient, who was born in Foxrock, Dublin
in 1906.
Galway's
Magic Flute
Flutist Sir James Galway is internationally regarded as both a matchless
interpreter of classical music and a consummate entertainer whose
charismatic appeal crosses all musical boundaries. He is about to
embark on his first U.S. tour with the Polish Chamber Orchestra
and his wife Jeanne, talks to Patricia Harty.
From
Doubt to Defiance
John Patrick Shanley, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award
for his play Doubt, talks to Marilyn Cole Lownes about his new play,
Defiance, which opens on Broadway in February.
The
Great Blasket Island
Plans to turn the Great Blasket Island, abandoned in 1953, into
an historic heritage site have been dogged by controversy. Sharon
Ní Chonchúir reports.
First
Holy Communion
The terror and joy of an Irish Catholic childhood remembered.
Harris
in Wrecks
Actor Ed Harris, who made his European debut in Cork in the play
Wrecks, talks to Brian O'Connell about returning to the stage after
a 9 year absence.
Cash's
Forty Shades of Green
With Johnny Cash in the news a lot recently thanks to the movie
Walk the Line, many tend to forget the music legend's Scots-Irish
roots.
Boston
Museum to Showcase Kennedy's Irish Heritage
The museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will unveil
an exhibition entitled "A Journey Home: John F. Kennedy and
Ireland" for St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2006.
Quote
Unquote
The audience has been allowed a rare glimpse of a thrilling process:
an actor's taking hold of the reins of a runaway role and riding
it for all it's worth."
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