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Paisley: Make Bertie Next President
IAN Paisley said he hopes former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern will be next president of Ireland. The North’s first minister said Ahern deserved the honor for all he had done for his country.

Ahern Warmly Praised for Speech

Ahern Proclaims Peace in Ireland

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Let’s Give Trap a Chance
IT’S good to talk. Giovanni Trapattoni admitted as much amidst Football Association of Ireland (FAI) fanfare at the RDS last Thursday afternoon that promised so much as the Yes Men of Irish soccer heralded the arrival of their savior with the last th

Leinster Wins Magners League Crown

Sports Digest: Gio Confident of New Success

ENTERTAINMENT

Finding Gold and Leading Roles
Peter Gallagher is starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odete’s The Country Girl on Broadway. The multi-talented star talks to CAHIR O’DOHERTY.

Have A Laugh, The World’s Ending

Celebrating Our Celtic Culture

GREENCARD >>

Returning Home
LAST week you’ll remember the reader who wrote about the unpleasant experience she and her family suffered through when returning to New York from a trip Ireland. She and her husband, newly naturalized U.S. citizens, were aggressively questioned by

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Mission Accomplished
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a long time since Easter 1916 was invoked in the U.S. Congress, but Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern did just that last Wednesday, April 30.

A Need to Work Together

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Where the Jobs Are Going
THERE was a two-part TV show on RTE television in the past two weeks that made compulsive viewing. It was called Where’s My Job Gone?

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The Beauty of an Irish Spring
THE longer I live the more I am touched to the heart by the exquisite manner in which the Irish year unfolds itself during the last days of April and the first week or May.

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On Race, Irish Can’t Win
IN the gritty 1950s movie Blackboard Jungle, Glenn Ford plays a teacher trying to tame a multicultural class of tough New York City students.