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Show of spirit , Honours due , Child support more...
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(Irish Post) 14 December
2005
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The Joe Horgan Column
So this is Ireland in the winter. There are ponies just off the
causeway road. On one side the salt marshes stretch out to the open
sea and the wading birds pick over the flats in the winter sunlight.
On the other side, nearer the bog land, the marsh and the short
stunted trees the ponies stand in the soft mud.
more... |
(Irish Post) 14 December
2005
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Books – a Christmas gift
to inspire
If you’re looking for the ideal children’s Christmas present then
you can’t go far wrong with a good book. Shaun Traynor casts his
eye over the latest Irish literature for younger members of the
family to help you on your way.
more... |
(Irish Post) 14 December
2005
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Success makes
envious emigrants ponder return
The continued boom in the Irish economy has encouraged a growing
number of Irish emigrants to return home to share in the Celtic
Tiger success story. Ronan McGreevy assesses a new book that looks
at the Ireland they will find when they get there.
more...
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(Irish Post) 14 December
2005
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Time to start talking
turkey for Christmas
Christmas Main Course : Traditional Thornhill Turkey with Trimmings
, Christmas Dessert : Mulled Fruit Trifle more...
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(Irish Post) 14 December
2005
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We’re at
the End of our Rope at Irish Ferries
The on-going dispute over Irish Ferries’ plans to axe 534 workers
and replace them with lower-paid staff has seen the company castigated
by politicians. more... |
(Irish Post) 7 December 2005
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The Joe
Horgan Column
Some have been calling it Ireland’s Wapping, in that it may mark
a truly pivotal moment in shaping the future nature of this country.
Whatever happens in the coming weeks, it seems unlikely that the
Irish Ferries dispute will merely pass by as just another industrial
disagreement. more... |
(Irish Post) 7 December 2005
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Comment
Fares Fair - Ferry Support - Literary Licence.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 December 2005
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Republicans Set
to Prosper in Changing Climate
The North of Ireland will come under Republican political control
well within a decade — or perhaps sooner. The reason? The British
Government’s radical reduction in the number of local councils.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 December 2005
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The
Joe Horgan Column
In terms of geography, the Irish Sea is no more than a healthy stretch
of water. Ireland and Britain are very, very close neighbours. When
I was a child going over on that ferry it was, of course, an incredibly
long journey. Considering the trip from our house in Birmingham
to our grandmother’s door took the best part of 18 hours it wasn’t
far off what it now takes to get to the other side of the world.
more... |
(Irish Post) 30 November
2005
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Comments
Piracy on the Irish Sea - Welcome aid - Best by far. more...
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(Irish Post) 30 November
2005
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A fond farewell
to a flawed genius
George Best died as he lived at the centre of attention. His long,
agonising flight from life consumed the public in a way that has
only been matched in our generation by the death of Pope John Paul
II. more... |
(Irish Post) 30 November
2005
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A Fond Farewell
The things that often prove difficult when planning farewells and
other forms of tribute is to try and make sure that they are somewhat
appropriate for the occasion.
more... |
(Irish Post) 23 November
2005
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The
Joe Horgan Column
It is difficult to convey just how much of an impact the Ferns Report
is now having on Irish society. We often think at the time that
things are never going to be forgotten before they are quickly filed
away and rapidly become yesterday’s news.
more... |
(Irish Post) 23 November
2005
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Raise a Glass
in Favour of New British
This Thursday will be a day of liberation for drinkers here — that
includes you, me and the vast majority of people who like a social
drink or three. more...
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(Irish Post) 23 November
2005
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Red Hand
Stained with Bloody History
The traditional Red Hand is the central symbol in the badge of the
North’s largest sectarian killing machine, the Ulster Defence Association.
But that hand drips with the blood of more than 400 of the estimated
3,000 victims of the present Troubles.
more... |
(Irish Post) 23 November
2005
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‘Fairytale’ is a
Little Bit of Festive Magic
Since The Pogues first reformed for a series of concerts in 2001
their annual tour has become something of a pre-Christmas tradition
— a sort of office party for the band’s loyal fans.
more... |
(Irish Post) 16 November
2005
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Proper Respect
for the Law
Irish Ferries have set sail on a perilous course that poses a threat
to the future of all national wage agreements in Ireland. more... |
(Irish Post) 16 November
2005
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Prime Minister has Cried Wolf Once
Tony Blair had it coming. And when it happened, he only had himself
to blame. His House of Commons defeat last week, his first in eight
years as Prime Minister, was a victory not only for Labour rebels,
but also for those who believe in good governance.
more... |
(Irish Post) 16 November
2005
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The Joe
Horgan Column
However much the NHS in Britain may be a perpetually failing service
and however much free health care for those desperate for life-saving
intervention is a myth (private health is willing after all to save
you at the flash of a credit card), the NHS remains a shining beacon.
more... |
(Irish Post) 16 November
2005
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Sunrise
is a New Dawn for Eamonn
As you would expect, Eamonn Holmes is as warm and jovial as he is
on-screen when I meet him at the Sky News studios to talk about
his new breakfast show.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 November 2005
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Publish
and be Damned?
Five national newspapers in Ireland have been compelled into publishing
grovelling apologies — three of them on their front pages — for
running wholly false stories surrounding the death in a car accident
in Moscow of former politician Liam Lawlor. more... |
(Irish Post) 9 November 2005
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Why
the Poppy Must Transcend
It is that time of the year again when everybody in Britain seems
to be wearing a poppy.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 November 2005
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The Joe
Horgan Column
These last few weeks it felt as if we were witnessing a truly seismic
shift in Irish society. Perhaps we weren’t and perhaps in a short
while all of this will be forgotten. But somehow that seems unlikely.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 November 2005
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Anois agus
Arís
One hundred Irishmen and women, pilgrims returning from Rome attacked
and killed in Somerset! The bodies dumped secretly in a marsh!
more... |
(Irish Post) 2 November 2005
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Survival
of the Fittest
The news that Irish people who have come to work in Britain are
more likely to die early from a range of causes relating to poor
health is not exactly new. more... |
(Irish Post) 2 November 2005
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Report
on Abuse Leaves Catholic
Alot of bad things have happened the Catholic Church in Ireland
over the last 20 years, but none worse than the publication of The
Ferns Report last week.
more... |
(Irish Post) 2 November 2005
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The Joe
Horgan Column
There is something special, perhaps even more so at this time of
year, about taking a walk down an Irish country lane. As winter
comes and the evenings suddenly chill the little back roads seem
more alive than ever, with birds gathering to leave or to roost
and leaves falling all around.
more... |
(Irish Post) 2 November 2005
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Conor
Comes Dressed to Kill
Right now it's just as well that Irishman Conor McNamara chose radio
to work in and not television.
more... |
(Irish Post) 2 November 2005
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Chronicling a Century
of Irish History
The old saying goes that the problem with the Irish is that they
can never forget their history and the problem with the British
is they can never remember it.
more... |
(Irish Post) 26 October 2005
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Ireland
Expects a Memorial
In all the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Admiral
Horatio Nelson’s historic victory at the Battle of Trafalgar last
week one fact was missing. more... |
(Irish Post) 26 October 2005
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Young
Soccer Talent — Your Country Needs You
It may not be the end of the world, but the end of our World Cup
dream has left us all feeling deflated. It ought not to matter,
but we’d all be better off if we qualified for Germany next summer.
more... |
(Irish Post) 26 October 2005
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The
Joe Horgan Column
We probably take sport too seriously and we probably take songs,
music and literature and all the other seemingly non-essentials
of life too seriously as well. Still there is good reason for they
are all, as the Irish writer John Banville, he of Booker fame, once
said “wholly necessary and wholly useless”.
more... |
(Irish Post) 26 October 2005
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Taking a Trip
Back Down Rocky Road
In 1960s Ireland, concepts like people power and free love must
have seemed wildly exotic. The almost unchallenged authority of
the Catholic Church made a sexual revolution more than unlikely
— it was unthinkable.
more... |
(Irish Post) 19 October 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
New Ireland was on holiday this summer and like a lot of things
in new Ireland it has to be seen or it isn’t worth anything. Hey,
what’s the use of being well off if no one knows you are. more... |
(Irish Post) 19 October 2005
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Daily Mail Enters
Fray in Battle for Irish Readers
Last week Ireland exited the World Cup and a new British-owned newspaper
appeared on the streets of Dublin. The two would appear to be unrelated,
but bear with us. more... |
(Irish Post) 19 October 2005
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Ireland
Blazes a Smoke Free Trail
Ireland led the way with a historic decision to ban smoking in public
that was enshrined in law on March 29, 2004. From that date a comprehensive
smoke-free law was introduced across the Republic that covered all
indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
more... |
(Irish Post) 19 October 2005
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IRA
heap political pressure on Unionism
IRA decommissioning has plunged Unionism and Loyalism into the dilemma
of how to reciprocate positively. John Coulter looks at what the
future may hold. more... |
(Irish Post) 12 October 2005
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Comment
Something remarkable is happening in the heart of one of the largest
Irish communities in Britain. more... |
(Irish Post) 12 October 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
The Ferry across the Irish Sea was such a part of our lives, wasn’t
it? All those coach journeys and then the smell of the ocean somewhere
in Wales and the boarding of the boat and Ireland waiting.
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(Irish Post) 12 October 2005
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Back
to his roots to get the buzz
Reality TV host Patrick Kielty of the BBC series Fame Academy and
more recently Celebrity Love Island has decided to return to his
roots — stand-up comedy.
more... |
(Irish Post) 12 October 2005
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Paul Donovan
There is a clear link between the recent stories about falling mass
attendances and the bookmaker Paddy Power offending the clergy with
an advertisement depicting Jesus and the apostles gambling at the
last supper. more... |
(Irish Post) 12 October 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
A momentous day surely. Wandering in by chance I managed to get
the live transmission of the weapons inspectors press conference
in which the three appointed dignitaries and the two clerics were
stating they believed they had seen the end of the IRA as an armed
force. It was amazing stuff.
more... |
(Irish Post) 5 October 2005
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From Derry
to Camden Via Death Row
Growing up in the North of Ireland in the 1980s was difficult —
regardless of which side of the political divide one came from.
Imagine then the added pressures that you faced if you were non-white
and non-Christian. more... |
(Irish Post) 5 October 2005
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A Threat
to the Irish Economy
Nearly 550 Irish workers risk losing their jobs to cheaper imported
foreign labour as Irish Ferries embarks on a cynical industrial
ploy that seemingly governments in Dublin and London and trade unions
are powerless to stop.
more... |
(Irish Post) 5 October 2005
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A Savage
Indictment of Post Independence
Peter Lennon’s 1968 documentary film Rocky Road To Dublin ran for
seven weeks in one cinema in Ireland and was never seen again. It
has just been re-released in Ireland this week.
more... |
(Irish Post) 5 October 2005
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Irish Government is in terminal disarray
Plans have finally been announced for a second terminal at Dublin
Airport. But Ronan McGreevy argues on-going delays in the project
and continued uncertainty about funding are a shameful indictment
of the Irish Government.
more... |
(Irish Post) 28 September
2005
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Comment
The IRA bites the bullet : By any standard of measurement, the announcement
that the IRA’s entire arsenal of weapons has been put beyond use
must be considered as a full and positive response
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(Irish Post) 28 September
2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
I knew this lad a while back when I lived in Britain whose parents
were Irish just like mine. more... |
(Irish Post) 28 September
2005
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Pictures
of hope
A new photographic exhibition gives a rare insight into the work
of Cricklewood Homeless Concern — and the lives of the people it
has helped. Amanda Diamond takes a look.
more... |
(Irish Post) 28 September
2005
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Paul Donovan
The latest wave of anti-terror legislation has shown the Blair government
learning little from recent past experiences involving the Irish
community. more... |
(Irish Post) 28 September
2005
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The
Joe Horgan Column
Well anything is possible, I suppose. This is a world where an American
President declared the end to a conflict by appearing on a carrier
ship in full fighter pilot’s uniform even though we all knew he
dodged going to war himself.
more... |
(Irish Post) 21 September
2005
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Peace the
Casualty When Orangemen March Out
Rioting in Belfast has been a public relations disaster for Northern
Protestants, argues Ronan McGreevy.
more... |
(Irish Post) 21 September
2005
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Call Time on
Pub Hours
It is somewhat ironic to note the closure of Irishman Oliver Peyton’s
Atlantic Bar and Grill in London’s West End, coming as it does just
a couple of months away from the introduction of new licensing laws
by the Government that some say will lead to 24-hour drinking.
more... |
(Irish Post) 21 September
2005
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Irish, yes. But we’re British too
You can be British and still be proud of your Irish roots, argues
Ronan McGreevy. more... |
(Irish Post) 14 September
2005
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Comment
Law and Disorder : For those of our readers of a younger disposition,
the ugly scenes of rioting by Loyalists in Belfast at the weekend
— ugly scenes that were beamed via satellite to televisions throughout
the world — must have come as something of a shock.
more... |
(Irish Post) 14 September
2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Of course it isn’t true. What a thing to suggest. Sure, many roads
here tend to mysteriously improve around large hotels or certain
business concerns, not around hospitals or schools, but to suggest
anything untoward about this is surely unfair.
more... |
(Irish Post) 14 September
2005
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Looking
down the barrel of fear
Gun crime is becoming more and more prevelant in Ireland — but can
anything stem the tide of deaths? Steve Cummins investigates Ireland’s
firearms culture. more... |
(Irish Post) 14 September
2005
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Power
to the People
Doctor Gerald Draper is an obviously intelligent man who has recently
added to the body of research that has been carried out in Britain
into the links between electro-magnetic fields — around electricity
pylons and the like — and childhood leukaemia.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 September
2005
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When
Chickens Finally Come Home to Roost
Top chef Richard Corrigan is not a man for mincing words, or mincing
anything if he can help it.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 September
2005
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The Joe
Horgan Column
It is hard sometimes to get a handle on the values of a society,
especially when a society is changing as rapidly as Ireland’s.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 September
2005
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The North is
Sitting on a Powder Keg
While Republican paramilitaries in Ireland continue to put their
weapons out of commission, a vast arsenal of legally-held firearms
are still in use in the North.
more... |
(Irish Post) 7 September
2005
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Rip-off
Ireland is alive and well, but who’s to blame?
Irish consumers are on a spending spree that is forcing prices up,
Ronan McGreevy argues. more... |
(Irish Post) 31 August 2005
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Comment
The death of Gerry Fitt at the weekend at the age of 79 means the
loss of a man who during his long political career at Westminster
and in Belfast beforehand came to be the virtual embodiment of constitutional
nationalism. more... |
(Irish Post) 31 August 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
A strange weekend there recently. Saturday, the sun shone like a
summer song. Sunday, the rain fell dark and long and we thought
summer was gone. Nothing too strange in that for Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Post) 31 August 2005
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Ireland welcomes a sea
of new faces
Ireland’s booming economy over the past decade has seen it transformed
beyond recognition as it surges into the 21st century. Frank Murphy
reports.more... |
(Irish Post) 31 August 2005
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Paul Donovan
A little discussed element of the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles
de Menezes at Stockwell tube station has been the role played by
the British army. more... |
(Irish Post) 31 August 2005
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The One and
Only Mo
In the hierarchy of the British Government the role of Secretary
of State for Northern Ireland is often somewhat of a poisoned chalice.
more... |
(Irish Post) 24 August 2005
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Race to
be the First Irishman in Space
If your wallet can stretch to it, space travel is just around the
corner. more... |
(Irish Post) 24 August 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
It is difficult to convey just how much of an agenda there is here
in politics and the media against Irish Republicanism.
more... |
(Irish Post) 24 August 2005
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Shonagh’s
Smiling Through in Les Miserables Role
Shonagh Daly is one of the more exciting new singing talents to
emerge from Ireland in recent times.
more... |
(Irish Post) 24 August 2005
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Banking on
Property Boom to Continue
House prices in Ireland have risen consistently over the past 10
years. But can the boom continue?
more... |
(Irish Post) 24 August 2005
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Millionaires’ playground
Ireland’s wealthy were at one time all “old money”. But from celebrities
to sports stars and even Lotto millionaires, all that has changed,
as Pat Holland reports.
more... |
(Irish Post) 17 August 2005
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Comment
The Cassidys are an ordinary Irish family living in north London.
Sean moved from Cavan to London in 1970. He married Veronica in
1976 and had two children Ciaran and Lisa.
more... |
(Irish Post) 17 August 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
We hit the road early and it was one of those mornings when the
sun shone and then shone some more.
more... |
(Irish Post) 17 August 2005
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Anois agus
arís
Matthias O’Conway of Galway takes his place in history as America’s
first professional language teacher and publisher of language learning
books that set the format for all modern language learning methods.
more... |
(Irish Post) 17 August 2005
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Finian Finds
Fortune in Oil
Eithne Treanor talks to Finian O’Sullivan CEO of Burren Energy about
his attitude and sense of adventure in the oil exploration business.
more... |
(Irish Post) 10 August 2005
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No Place For Violence
Women’s groups in Ireland and all those who are concerned with the
issue of women’s rights in general are right to welcome and endorse
the latest report on the matter published by the United Nations.
more... |
(Irish Post) 10 August 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
A friend of mine who was born and reared in Dublin tells a story
about learning Irish in school. They were reading Peig, one of the
books that came out of the late flowering of literature from the
Blasket Islands. more... |
(Irish Post) 10 August 2005
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Lotto Money
Could Mean Lotto Problems
In a single moment, Dolores McNamara had all her financial dreams
come true. But, as Ronan McGreevy says, the end to all her old problems
will mean the start of a whole set of new ones that she could never
have prepared for. more... |
(Irish Post) 10 August 2005
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IRA’s
dream was a bloody nightmare
After the IRA’s declaration to end its armed struggle Ronan
McGreevy says that their campaign was based on a flawed analysis
that they could bomb their way to a united Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Post) 03 August 2005
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Comment
It seemed an awfully long time in the coming but when the IRA called
a halt to all forms of paramilitary and criminal activity on Thursday
last week it was not a moment too soon.
more... |
(Irish Post) 03 August 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
There may be bombings in London, war in Iraq, a new fear of a new
global, random, murderous terror, but some things never seem to
change. more... |
(Irish Post) 03 August 2005
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Paying
too high a price
David Trimble may have bowed out of front-line politics — but the
former Unionist leader’s legacy lives on — as Martin Doyle discovers.
more... |
(Irish Post) 03 August 2005
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New scheme
puts faith in fostering families
Traditional methods of dealing with children with problems have
seen them placed in care. Now a new initiative is changing all that,
as Grham Clifford discovered.
more... |
(Irish Post) 03 August 2005
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An Identity
in Question
BBC presenter Nicky Campbell tells Martin Doyle how it felt to trace
and get to know his Irish birth parents — a Protestant matron and
a Catholic policeman with a Republican past.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 July 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Not so long ago they closed down the textile industry of Donegal
because the company found relocating to Africa offered the chance
of more profit. Lower wages, lower expectations with regards to
working conditions, etc.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 July 2005
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The GAA Should
Stay on Amateur Footing
As the GAA’s income increases so too does the argument for professional
players. more... |
(Irish Post) 27 July 2005
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A Terrible
Blunder
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair strikes one as a
meek man who, until the events of recent weeks in London, had espoused
with gusto the principle of community policing.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 July 2005
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Setanta Lines
Up for Bid to Show Premiership Games
It started because two friends wanted to watch Ireland take on Holland
in the World Cup — and now it’s set to challenge the might of satellite
channel Sky for rights to Premiership soccer.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 July 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Is London an Irish city? Is Birmingham? Manchester? Glasgow? Are
there pockets of Irishness in other cities and towns throughout
Britain? Yes and yes. Of course, yes.
more... |
(Irish Post) 20 July 2005
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Rock’s new evangelist
Paul Brannigan has risen from covering the Belfast rock scene to
one of the biggest jobs in music journalism — the editorship of
Kerrang! Robert Dineen hears his story.
more... |
(Irish Post) 20 July 2005
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After July
7 we are all Londoners now
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in London on July 7 Ronan
McGreevy admires the London spirit and condemns the scourge of religious
hatred.more... |
(Irish Post) 20 July 2005
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Comment : Funding
for the future
The announcement by the Irish Government that the money earmarked
for Irish organisations working with the emigrant community in Britain
is to increase by 61 per cent next year to £4.5 million will surely
be received with delight from those working in the Irish voluntary
sector. more... |
(Irish Post) 20 July 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
You can’t argue with the stated aims of the Drop the Debt campaign
or the Make Poverty History movement, which in a way makes them
even harder to discuss.
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 July 2005
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The Lessons
of Recent History
Last Thursday London was struck by its one most single terrible
and tragic event since the IRA left a bomb outside Harrods department
store in Knightsbridge in 1983 as hundreds hurried about their last-
minute Christmas shopping.
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 July 2005
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Díon Fund is
Really Making a Difference
In the wake of the London bombings Ireland’s Minister for Foreign
Affairs Dermot Ahern offers the nation’s sympathy to the victims
while also looking ahead to the announcement of this year’s Díon
Fund allocations. more... |
(Irish Post) 13 July 2005
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The Luck of
the Irish
There’s something about rags-to-riches stories that evokes a sense
of hope and inspiration and people are always glad to listen to
them. The tale of one of Ireland’s biggest success stories, Bill
Cullen, is no exception.
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 July 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Well, there is often a wide-eyed fox halting for a while on the
lane before slinking away. Rabbits everywhere. The swallows and
the kestrels. The red-beaked choughs down by the sea.
more... |
(Irish Post) 06 July 2005
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Time
RTÉ listened to its listeners
As national Irish station RTÉ pulls the plug on its sports service
to Britain Ronan McGreevy asks why are they ignoring one of their
biggest potential markets — the emigrant population.
more... |
(Irish Post) 06 July 2005
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Opportunity Knocked
It’s an aviation phenomenon — an airport created out of nothing
some 25 years ago which experts predicted was bound to fail. But
against all odds Knock Airport has really taken off — thanks, in
part, to the Irish community in Britain. Malcolm Rogers explains
why. more... |
(Irish Post) 06 July 2005
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Singing From
the Same Hymn Sheet
The meeting in London on Monday between Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and
Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have been brief, businesslike
and very much to the point.
more... |
(Irish Post) 29 June 2005
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A New Slant
on an Old Familiar
Ireland’s history has plenty of documented evidence about the millions
who emigrated to Britain. Now as Ronan McGreevy discovers Ireland
is facing a similar “invasion” — this time from eastern Europe.
more... |
(Irish Post) 29 June 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
I’ll tell you how we get our post. The local postman, knowing we
are all regular visitors to the house of our parents, drops all
the post off there. We in effect have our own sorting office.
more... |
(Irish Post) 29 June 2005
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A Very Irish
Revolution
Burgeoning wealth, record employment and double-digit growth — Ireland's
never had it so good. Or has it? Author Henry McDonald says there
are dark secrets lurking, as Martin Doyle discovers.
more... |
(Irish Post) 29 June 2005
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Celtic
high-rollers are on a winning streak
The words to the song McAlpines’ Fusiliers — written when Ireland
was mainly known in the rest of the world for Guinness and armies
of labourers. more... |
(Irish Post) 22 June 2005
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Last gasp for public smoking
Where Ireland leads, California and New York have followed. And
now it seems that the British Government has seen the light and
is also motivated by Ireland’s example.
more... |
(Irish Post) 22 June 2005
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Time
to put your money where your mouth is
Is it right that multi-millionaire rock star Bono should be lecturing
the world on the need to alleviate poverty while availing himself
of generous tax breaks? Ronan McGreevy thinks not.
more... |
(Irish Post) 22 June 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Here in Ireland, the 1990 World Cup is seen by many as marking some
kind of watershed in Irish consciousness, as the national team made
their first appearance at the world's biggest tournament.
more... |
(Irish Post) 22 June 2005
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Let’s call
time on gentlemen’s clubs
Ireland is peppered with golf courses catering for a rich elite.
Ronan McGreevy says he wants his countryside back.
more... |
(Irish Post) 15 June 2005
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President’s
crowning glory
It was former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who described
Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev on his appointment to high office
as “someone I can do business with”.
more... |
(Irish Post) 15 June 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
I am lucky enough to be looking out over the fields and the sun
is shining. The farmer is in the distance.
more... |
(Irish Post) 15 June 2005
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Referendum
‘No’ is a relief to Ahern
Anti-EU votes in France and Holland may come as a blessing to the
Irish government argues Ronan McGreevy. more... |
(Irish Post) 08 June 2005
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Garda reform necessary
Miscarriages of justice are all too familiar to Irish people in
this country. Too many people have been the innocent victims of
police officers who have extracted false confessions or twisted
evidence to suit their suspicions. more... |
(Irish Post) 08 June 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
One minute it really is June, it really is the first strains of
summer. The next minute a cloud goes over and it’s as cold as February.
more... |
(Irish Post) 08 June 2005
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You don’t
have to live in fear of your phobia
Do you break out in a cold sweat at the mere thought of going to
the dentist? If so, chances are you suffer from dentophobia. more... |
(Irish Post) 01 June 2005
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Children’s
safety on school buses must be the first concern
As the tragic victims are buried Ireland is still struggling to
come to terms with the Co. Meath bus crash which saw five schoolchildren
lose their lives. But as the government pledges urgent action on
road safety can we be sure the tragedy will not be repeated in the
future? Amanda Diamond investigates.
more... |
(Irish Post) 01 June 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
Peader O’Donnell really was right. There was never a revolution
in this country. It was just a change of management. Recently the
management have been showing their true colours again.
more... |
(Irish Post) 01 June 2005
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When Ireland lost a voice of the people
A decade has passed since the closure of the Irish Press newspaper
group. Ronan McGreevy looks back at the demise of one of Ireland’s
great media institutions.
more... |
(Irish Post) 01 June 2005
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A helping
hand reaching out to young Londoners
Although sometimes seen as a thing of the past, homelessness and
inadequate housing is still a problem for young Irish people. Continuing
our series on Irish voluntary organisations in Britain. more... |
(Irish Post) 25 May 2005
|
New
hope for peace in religious concord
Following the landmark “Seattle Statement”, Ronan McGreevy reminds
us how closely Catholics and Protestants concur on theology.
more... |
(Irish Post) 25 May 2005
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The Joe Horgan
Column
The dream for Ireland is of a “government machine absolutely under
the control of a small group of ministers”. It is to be run “on
centralised lines, with a strong finance department the dominant
force in government”. more... |
(Irish Post) 25 May 2005
|
Anois
agus arís
It was well known that the icon of 20th Century revolution, ‘Che’
Guevarra bore the name Ernesto Guevarra Lynch, a scion of an Irish
Argentine family. Argentina has the biggest Irish migrant population
outside of the English speaking world. more... |
(Irish Post) 25 May 2005
|
An
Unparalleled Experience Not to be Missed
A visit to Lourdes is for many an experience that can’t be bettered.
Graham Clifford joined a group of youngsters from the Handicapped
Children’s Pilgrimage Trust to savour a week they will never forget.
more... |
(Irish Post) 18 May 2005
|
A Driving Need
for Change
It is a dilemma that is not new, especially here in Britain. But
traffic congestion and indeed gridlock is an ailment that is afflicting
post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and is causing those in government there
to make some difficult decisions.
more... |
(Irish Post) 18 May 2005
|
Investors
Grab Cash While the Fans Suffer
Soccer is still reeling at the capitulation of shareholders in the
sale of Manchester United. But Ronan McGreevy says supporters shouldn’t
be surprised. more... |
(Irish Post) 18 May 2005
|
The Joe Horgan
Column
I could well be missing the point here, but apart from the predictions
that he will be a superstar, the fact that the Celtic footballer
Aiden McGeady opted to represent Ireland rather than the land of
his birth, Scotland, obviously stirred more than just sporting interest.
more... |
(Irish Post) 18 May 2005
|
Nursing: It’s so
Much More than Just a Job
As we celebrate International Nurses’ Day, Amanda Diamond reports
on how Irish women have been stalwarts of the profession for decades
and a key part of Britain’s National Health Service.
more... |
(Irish Post) 18 May 2005
|
Paying
a Terrible Price for Neutrality
After the VE commemorations of last weekend Ronan McGreevy looks
at how Ireland dealt with its neutrality and how those who chose
to fight are remembered.
more... |
(Irish Post) 11 May 2005
|
The Rising
Cost of Your Child’s Special Holy Day
First Holy Communion is a special day in any child’s life. But the
cost can be crippling for many parents.
more... |
(Irish Post) 11 May 2005
|
Time to Step
Back from Extremes
It is now time for parties that moved to the extremes for electoral
purposes to move back towards the centre.
more... |
(Irish Post) 11 May 2005
|
The Joe Horgan
Column
It is either deeply ironic or merely a quirk in the nature of Irish
history — but there is just as much chance of encountering an identifiable
Irish culture outside of Ireland as there is in it.
more... |
(Irish Post) 11 May 2005
|
‘Fares fair’ Say
Parents on Loss of Free Travel Provision
For parents across Britain the cost of sending their children for
a Catholic education is on the rise — because councils are cutting
free travel provision for thousands of youngsters. Amanda Diamond
looks at how the move is hitting one Irish community.
more... |
(Irish Post) 04 May 2005
|
Danger
of Looking Backwards
The death of the young soldier follows in the line of that of Irish
guardsman Ian Malone from Dublin who lost his life early on in the
Iraq War. more... |
(Irish Post) 04 May 2005
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Is Blair
the Safest Option for Britain?
With the General Election this Thursday Ronan McGreevy asks if a
vote for Tony Blair will be good for Britain. more... |
(Irish Post) 04 May 2005
|
The Joe Horgan
Column
We now know that the Ireland of the 70s and 80s — that faraway,
distant country — offered worker’s poor wages and that whilst telling
the people to tighten their belts the government of the day was
lining it’s own pockets.
more... |
(Irish Post) 04 May 2005
|
Cooking Up a Raw
Recipe for Success
He’s the man behind one of the restaurant industry’s biggest success
stories. But it took Simon Woodroffe longer than he intended to
hit the big time, as Eithne Treanor discovered. more... |
(Irish Post) 04 May 2005
|
Allow Pope
Benedict Benefit of the Doubt
As a Cardinal he was known as a hard man. Now Ronan McGreevy asks
will Pope Benedict XVI change his spots?
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
Tales of a
Misspent Youth
As we approach the date in history that marks 60 years since the
end of the Second World War, there still seems to persist in some
sections of the British tabloid press the belief that all Germans
must undoubtedly be Nazis.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
The Joe Horgan
Column
I grew up literally within earshot of a football ground on the inner
city streets of England. I stood on the now demolished terraces.
I remember that at least one small factory backed on to one set
of terracing behind the goals. The stadium, the club, was still
physically then part of the community.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
Political
Face-Off as Irish Electors Make Their Choice
Voters in the North of Ireland will play a crucial role in electing
Britain’s next government. Malcolm Rogers looks at the key Irish
seats in next week’s general Election.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
The
Embassy at the Heart of Emigrant Life in Britain
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work at the Irish
Embassy in London? Or what it is that Embassy workers do all day
long? Well, wonder no more — Amanda Diamond spent a day with Barry
McCarthy and Luke Hanlon to find out.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
No Airs or
Graces For Jamie’s School Dinner Lady Nora
She’s the woman who upstaged Jamie Oliver and helped bring Britain’s
school dinners into the 21st century. But Jamie’s School Dinners’
star Nora Sands now wants to stay firmly away from the limelight,
as Frank Peters discovered.
more... |
(Irish Post) 27 April 2005
|
Stigma of
Suicide Blights Irish Youth
Youngsters in Ireland are taking their own lives in growing numbers.
Ronan McGreevy discusses a new initiative to help ease the problem.
more... |
(Irish Post) 20 April 2005
|
Statistics
Don’t Paint the Full Picture
It was the 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
who made the observation that: “There are three kinds of lies: Lies,
damned lies, and statistics.”
more... |
(Irish Post) 20 April 2005
|
The Joe
Horgan Column
I can only presume that a lapsed Catholic is someone who doesn’t
attend mass because that aside if you are raised a Catholic it would
seem very difficult to me for it to be no longer part of your mindset
or your imagination.
more... |
(Irish Post) 20 April 2005
|
Final
Push for Peace
“I am asking you to join me in seizing this moment, to intensify
our efforts, to rebuild the peace process and decisively move our
struggle forward.”
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 April 2005
|
The Joe
Horgan Column
There is still a pleasure in listening to Morning Ireland on the
radio and through the national station feeling as if you are hearing
Ireland discuss itself.
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 April 2005
|
Amending
Rule 42 is Best for the GAA
It will be a win, win, win situation for the GAA if Rule 42 is rescinded
Ronan McGreevy gives his reasons for supporting the change.
more... |
(Irish Post) 13 April 2005
|
Pure genius for St. Patrick’s Day
Think Ireland, think Guinness. That’s what many foreigners do and
even some of us see our national identity through the opaque prism
of the black stuff. more... |
(Irish Post) 17
March 2005
|
Sinn
Féin snubbed
British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson once famously said that
a week is a long time in politics. A Conservative predecessor, Harold
Macmillan, asserted that there was no such thing as politics but
merely events. more... |
(Irish Post) 17
March 2005
|
Republicans not beyond the law
Last weekend Sinn Féin asked Bertie Ahern to publish a green paper
on Irish unity within a year. more... |
(Irish Post)
9 March 2005
|
Wish
we were there
People who go across the sea to Ireland on a visit from Britain
these days regard the auld country as a “less than exotic location”
according to the latest surveys carried out by Tourism Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9
March 2005
|
A needless death
At the end of every Crimewatch television programme, presenter Nick
Ross tells his audience to sleep tight and not to have nightmares.
more... |
(Irish Post) 3 March 2005
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Irish
lionheart is leading man
The English fan beside me in a pub in Clapham in south London spoke
a fraction too soon. “O’Driscoll’s done nothing in the second-half,”
he said. more... |
(Irish Post) 3 March 2005
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Judging Sinn Féin
They were derided before for attempting to choreograph stages of
the peace process, on days where announcement was supposed to follow
announcement and a little dance of peace was to be played out.
more... |
(Irish Post) 3 March 2005
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An uneasy peace
Bombs, bullets and bank robberies have no place at all in a political
democracy. more... |
(Irish Post) 23 February
2005
|
Big Brother’s
Irish appeal
The woman from Big Brother was telling us how great we all are last
week. more...
|
(Irish Post) 23 February
2005
|
Fair play
to Blair as victims are vindicated
Fair play to him, said Patrick Maguire, who was imprisoned by the
British state aged 13 for his supposed part in the Guildford bombings.
more... |
(Irish Post) 23 February
2005
|
Leopoldo
O’Donnell: Spanish Prime Minister
Irishmen and women, forced by conquest and by economics, have spread
into many corners of the world. Many of them and their descendants
have achieved outstanding success in the lands in which they have
settled. more... |
(Irish Post) 23 February
2005
|
Single
mothers deserve respect
Kevin Myers, as he pointed out last week, is not the Taoiseach or
the President of Ireland.
more... |
(Irish Post) 16 February
2005
|
Better late
than never
So it should be a source of some bewilderment that it has taken
the British authorities more than a decade to apologise to the Conlon
and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment over the Guildford
and Woolwich bombings. more... |
(Irish Post) 16 February
2005
|
Searching
for evidence instead of scapegoats
The police decision to blame the IRA for the recent multi-million
pound bank raid in the North of Ireland has sparked a storm of protest.
MP Sarah Teather tells Paul Donovan why she thinks the decision
was wrong. more... |
(Irish Post) 16 February
2005
|
Wise Words
The Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland Dr Sean Brady is known to
be something of a quiet man, a man who in the past has been careful
in his choice of words to describe the situation in the North.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 February 2005
|
Never forget
the Irish victims
Twenty-five years ago last month, Guiseppe Conlon died in Hammersmith
Hospital of complications relating to a respiratory illness.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 February 2005
|
Moral dilemmas
With the recent anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz the issue
of Irish neutrality along with President De Valera’s expression
of condolences to German representatives upon the death of Adolf
Hitler were suddenly in the news.
more... |
(Irish Post) 9 February 2005
|
Home Affairs
One might be forgiven the observation that there seems to be a competition
going on within the Government in Britain, a competition to see
who will be the most memorably oppressive Labour Home Secretary
of all time. more...
|
(Irish Post) 2 February 2005
|
Sorry seems
to be the hardest word
The Irish Government missed an opportunity last week to make amends
for an historical wrong.
more...
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(Irish Post) 2 February 2005
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Folk heroes
still filling venues
There is a story told on the sleeve notes of an old Planxty compilation
about a woman who attended one of their gigs at the Shaftesbury
Avenue Theatre (now the Apollo) in London 30 years ago.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 27 January 2005
|
Home is where the
heart should be
In time for Homelessness Sunday, Paul Donovan reports on the plight
of Irish families — too many of whom live in poor accommodation.
more...
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(Irish Post) 27 January 2005
|
Faded welcomes
hurt returning Diaspora
I don’t think they know Irish people like me even exist.”
more...
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(Irish Post) 27 January 2005
|
Peace, at a price
Bertie Ahern’s refusal to take calls from Gerry Adams would be comical
if it was not so serious. more...
|
(Irish Post) 19 January 2005
|
Culture of despair
In 1943, at an orphanage in Cavan town run by the Poor Clares, an
enclosed order of nuns, a fire took the lives of one old woman and
33 young girls. more...
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(Irish Post) 19 January 2005
|
A major voice
for emigrant issues
No Irish politician has pursued the issue of justice for Irish emigrants
more than the Labour Party chief whip Emmet Stagg.
more...
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(Irish Post) 12 January 2005
|
World
tragedy abounds but Africa’s still hurting
Television personality Dermot O’ Leary and his father Sean report
on a visit to Sierra Leone to see the work done there by the charity
CAFOD. more...
|
(Irish Post) 12 January 2005
|
Woman at the heart
of policing in North
Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Nuala O’Loan talks to Gary
Kent about what it is like doing her job in a world full of men.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 12 January 2005
|
The disappearance
of a Corkman in London
This column has generally confined itself to the stories of those
who left Ireland and made a successful life in this country or in
other lands. more...
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(Irish Post) 12 January 2005
|
Ideas of Irishness
When Erskine Childers was arrested in 1922 during the Irish civil
war he was carrying a revolver that had been given to him by his
one time friend Michael Collins.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 12 January 2005
|
Don’t
blame God if disaster strikes
Barry Murphy and Eilis Finnegan from Dublin had planned to spend
the New Year in New York with her parents.
more...
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(Irish Post) 4 January 2005
|
An island in the
sun
Whilst a gloomy end to 2004 may have been inevitable, Malcolm Rogers
argues we Irish have actually never had it so good. So look forward
to 2005 with confidence.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 4 January 2005
|
Everywhere
and nowhere
Michael McDowell, in a rare burst of poetic language, believes that
we should only use the pick and shovel to build the future and forget
all about excavating the past.
more...
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(Irish Post) 4 January 2005
|
Identifying the true
obstacles to peace
When will it ever be enough? Independent observers, the trust of
two governments, a stated order to all volunteers to desist from
any military activity or any activity contrary to peace, an actual
peace that lengthens year by year?
more...
|
(Irish Post) 22 December
2004
|
A marriage
of inconvenience
“Marriage has many pains but celibacy has few pleasures,” Samuel
Johnson once said and he had a wise word for many things — but for
generations Irish men heroically sought to prove him wrong.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 15 December
2004
|
Keeping warm
this winter
Winter can be a testing time for many elderly Irish people faced
with a tight budget and the problem of keeping warm in Britain’s
bitter cold. Amanda Diamond and Mary Connelly offer some handy tips
on how to keep the cold at bay.
more...
|
(Irish Post) 15 December
2004
|
A fond farewell to
Bewley’s
So Bewley’s has closed. Part of Irish history for some 140 years,
it has closed with not a little fuss and with not a few tears.
more...
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(Irish Post) 15 December
2004
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