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Kerry Kennedy just the latest JFK clan member to fall apart - Yet another sad chapter in bizarre Kennedy family behavior

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7:32 AM

Recalling the Famine’s impact on Irish and American history

There is a profound moment in Tom Murphy’s play ‘Famine” where John Connor, the Irish tenant farmer, pulls up the potato stalk by the root to see if the blight is back.

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Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7:37 AM

“Vanishing Ireland” documents the recent past in Ireland that seems a world away – PHOTOS

The Vanishing Ireland Project began in 2001 with the aim of chronicling an Ireland that seemed to be disappearing rapidly.

By TURTLE BUNBURY

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7:04 AM

Mother of a five-year-old Irish beauty queen against ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’-style competition

The mother of five-year-old Dubliner Katie Lambert, Leinster’s Supreme Beauty Queen and Grand Supreme Emerald Queen, says she won’t permit her daughter to enter the ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’ style child beauty pageant moving from the U.S. to Ireland this November, the Evening Herald reported.

By LAURA BRYN SISSON

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:56 AM

Irish American scientist who discovered DNA says cancer could be cured in a decade

Dr. James Watson, one of the Nobel laureates credited with unlocking the structure of DNA, announced at the Euroscience Open Forum in Dublin on Thursday that four out of five cancer cases will be curable within the next ten years, the Daily Mail reported.

By LAURA BRYN SISSON

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:34 AM

Druid Murphy is an unprecedented triumph

Did you ever ask yourself how did every Irish town ended up with at least twenty public houses?

By CAHIR O'DOHERTY

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7:59 AM

Children conceived under the use of fertility drugs are shorter

When age, sex, and parents’ height are all accounted for, children conceived under the influence of fertility drugs average between 2 and 2.5 cm shorter than children conceived naturally, the Irish Examiner reported.

By LAURA BRYN SISSON

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:38 AM

Irish non-profit, Haven, looking for volunteers to go to Haiti

“Haven US is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization which set up in the United States in 2011, after three years in operation in Ireland and Haiti, with the aim of assisting with the expansion of its program of activities and services in Haiti.

By MARIA DELGRECO

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:41 AM

Revenue and police officers catch fuel launderers in County Mohaghan

Gardai and Revenue Customs Service officers nabbed three men running a fuel laundering plant out of a curtain-sided truck in Co. Monaghan, Business and Leadership reported.

By LAURA BRYN SISSON

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:40 AM

Trinity College Dublin and Bank of Ireland offer lost cost loans to pay for student’s registrations

Trinity College Dublin and Bank of Ireland announced a new student loan initiative, ‘TCD Finance,’ yesterday.

By LAURA BRYN SISSON

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:17 AM

Barbecue up a storm this summer using Irish peat

Killofin Home is doing just that by launching a hip new take on an old tradition.

By STAFF WRITER

Published Saturday, July 14, 2012, 8:46 AM

The NFL rules the airwaves (In the USA anyway)

Published Friday, July 13, 2012, 12:46 PM

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