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April 25, 2011

Irish News for 04/25/11 (posted 10:21pm CDT)

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www.irishtimes.com
STUDENTS ATTENDING the country's biggest Irish-language summer college in the Donegal Gaeltacht are to get escorts home from céilís and discos after an incident in which a number were attacked with hurleys last year.

 
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www.irishtimes.com
A BOY from Co Kerry is set to become the world's youngest child to undergo pioneering brain surgery.
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www.irishtimes.com
You wondered what the old ghosts would have made of it all as Easter 1916 was recalled
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www.irishtimes.com
Unemployment will be a key agenda item at this week's conferences. PETER MCGUIREreports on the tightening jobs market
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www.timesunion.com
After 25 years as a summer-only attraction in the Catskills, the Irish American Heritage Museum is moving to a new home in a downtown building with the promise of high visibility, year-round exhibits and a focus on school group programming intended to revive declining attendance. A news conference
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IBO Golf Classic Thurs 5/5 @ Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Course. Benefits HOPE & the Holy Ghost Fathers
www.ibo-ny.com
The IBO is a not-for-profit, non-denominational organization which seeks to promote, foster and advance the business interests of Irish and Irish American business people in the tri-state area and beyond. Founded in 1973, the Irish Business Organization of New York, Inc. is chartered to encourage, i
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www.bbc.co.uk
The dissident republican group, the Real IRA, has threatened to kill more police officers and declared its opposition to the Queen's first visit to the Irish Republic next month.
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Wexford Food Fair 20-22 May open air food market, jazz brunch, hog roast, celeb cookery demos & more
www.wexfordfoodfestival.ie
Wexford Food Festival, Headlining the 2011 festival celebrity chefs Catherine Fulvio and Wexford's Phelim Byrne will demonstrate a range of cuisine cooking styles including Italian and Thai themed dishes.
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www.herald.ie
Bruce Springsteen has direct family connections to Mullingar, according to a new book which traces the roots of The Boss from famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s to a working-class New Jersey boy in the 1950s.
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Nation's First Official Monument was in honor of Dublin born Richard Montgomery
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
An often-overlooked monument at St. Paul's Chapel to an obscure hero of the Revolutionary War gets a makeover.
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www.bbc.co.uk
One of the most renowned advertising icons in the world is kidnapped from outside a County Antrim factory.
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www.derryjournal.com
Yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of the north west, the Derryveagh evictions.
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www.bbc.co.uk
Legendary Irish explorer Tom Crean is commemorated with the naming of a mountain in Greenland
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www.thejournal.ie
A week of conferences begin today - as new figures emerge about how many unqualified people get teaching work.
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For SERIOUS cloud fans!
www.irishweatheronline.com
Daily weather forecasts, views and news from Ireland
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www.irishtimes.com
A dozen buses have been destroyed during an early morning fire at a coach tour operator.
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thedailyedge.thejournal.ie
A new Gallup survey of international wellbeing sees Ireland comes 9th out of 124 countries in how they rank their lives.
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I thought the church was against cremations, but in Smyth's case, they probably made an exception, since he is burning in Hell anyway!
www.thejournal.ie
The sale of the Co Cavan plot of land in which Brendan Smyth is buried can't be finalised until he is removed from it.
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www.irishtimes.com
TY students from a Catholic and Protestant school joined forces for a visit to the Great War battlefields in Belgium, writes PETER McGUIRE
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www.irishcentral.com
IrishCentrals guide to the best Irish coffee ever
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www.philly.com
The words weren't poetic, but they flowed from Walt Whitman's pen in the writer's distinctive hand. D's looped to the left. X's looked like SC. W's and J's had sweeping flourishes.
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