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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)
May 03, 2011
Irish News 05/03/11 (posted 08:43pm CDT)
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THE MESSAGE that "Ireland is open for business" is the central theme of Taoiseach Enda Kenny's visit to New York this week to promote inward investment.
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Simon Basketter looks at the life of Bobby Sands, a Republican who died in prison after a hunger strike that won support around the world and challenged the dominant view of "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
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ANALYSIS:Peter Robinson is likely to return as First Minister and Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister
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The leaders of the five main local parties have made their final pitches for votes in a BBC Northern Ireland TV election special.
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Shane MacGowan is in the running to land a Classic Brit Award.
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Irishman in plea to give Dracula an immortal home in Ireland.
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Failure to install meters country-wide means a flat rate charge will be imposed instead. Water charges are a term of the EU/IMF bailout deal.
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Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said the public finances are now better than on track.
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Nearly all rainfall in April fell at the start of the month - and most of the country has been enjoying long hours of sunshine since.
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Obama answers the 3.a.m phone call and may have won the White House again
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A history of Ireland in 100 objects:The working of metals may have come late to Ireland, but the island then became one of the most important metal-producing centres in Europe. Ireland had large resources of copper and gold: new sources of wealth and power.
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Coggalbeg gold hoard, 2300-2000 BC
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A history of Ireland in 100 objects:It is so long – 15m in all – that it cannot be photographed as a whole inside the National Museum of Ireland. The best image goes back to 1902, when it was taken in through the wide gates of Leinster House. It was discovered the previous year in a boggy area that
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A history of Ireland in 100 objects:Sometime in the early Bronze Age, Irish people began to bury their dead in single graves. This suggests something about their attitude to death and, perhaps more importantly, hints at their attitude to life. A notion is emerging that what is significant is not jus
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A history of Ireland in 100 objects:A little under 3,000 years ago someone in Ireland was very, very rich. In March 1854 a ganger ordered some navvies working on the construction of the West Clare Railway near Newmarket-on-Fergus to straighten a dyke running close to the small lake of Mooghaun. They
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The European Union project has involved a derogation, not just of sovereignty, but of democracy in a way most of us did not anticipate, and far more serious than even Eurosceptics feared, writes
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Obama's Irish advisers were key to Bin Laden plan
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Irish leader hails Bin Laden death, remembers Irish who were killed
