Links
- Irish Aires Home Page
- IA Houston Links
- IA Links Page
- IA News Links
- Irish Aires Archived
- IA Email Lists
- Irish Aires Blog
- IAUC
Archives
- October 2004
- November 2004
- December 2004
- January 2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- May 2005
- June 2005
- July 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- August 2007
- September 2007
- October 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- February 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
- January 2010
- April 2011
- May 2011
- June 2011
- July 2011
- August 2011
- February 2012
News about the Irish & Irish American culture, music, news, sports. This is hosted by the Irish Aires radio show on KPFT-FM 90.1 in Houston, Texas (a Pacifica community radio station)
April 16, 2011
irish News for 04/16/11 (posted 10:29pm EDT)
-
www.thejournal.ieThe Civil Public Services Union votes to bar co-operation with the public service reform, as well as approving strikes.
*************************
- www.youtube.comThe Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) (16 April 1746) was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobites and the Hanoverian British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Culloden dealt the Jacobite cause—to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom of G
- www.thejournal.ieA private members' bill to be discussed in the Dáil this week would see the State take majority ownership of gas and oil finds.
- www.thejournal.ieDolores Kelly is injured after two rocks are thrown through her windscreen - the day after two canvassers are attacked.A
- www.rte.ieBank workers representatives are to meet the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance over the coming days to discuss the future of the banking industry.
-
www.thewildgeese.com'The white in the center signifies a lasting truce between the 'Orange' and the 'Green,' and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood.' -- Thomas Francis Meagher, speaking at the p - www.breakingnews.ieThe PSNI has rejected criticism from Sinn Féin over the length of the detention of three men arrested over the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh.
- www.irishweatheronline.comDaily weather forecasts, views and news from Ireland
- www.irishcentral.comIrish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered 99 years later - VIDEO
- www.thejournal.ieThe son of the US billionaire is believed to have engaged with NAMA over the possibility of purchasing an existing golf project in the east of the country.
- www.irishcentral.comGang warfare worsens as bomb attacks in Ireland increase
- www.thejournal.ieThe fallen businessman acknowledges his failings to local politicians - as over 4,000 employees await confirmation of their jobs.
- businessetc.thejournal.ieChristine Lagarde says Ireland could hang onto its 12.5 per cent corporate tax rate, if it can appease the EU in other ways.
- www.irishcentral.comHow to trace your roots in Ireland - tips on finding your Irish ancestors
- www.stephousehotel.ieThe Step House Hotel is luxury, boutique, 4 star hotel in Co Carlow, near Kilkenny and Wexford. One of the finest wedding venues in the Carlow and Kilkenny area.
- www.breakingnews.ieSinn Féin are calling on the Government to make radical changes to revenue and licensing terms governing oil and gas exploration.
- www.irishcentral.comCivil War anniversary sparks new interest in Irish Brigade in Ireland
- www.irishtimes.comThe first review of Ireland's €85 billion international rescue plan has concluded that the Government has met its fiscal targets by "a comfortable margin", but it warned that challenges remain.
