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Calculator Plus app invented by Dublin 12-year-old and her dad tops Amazon’s Android App chart
Calculator Plus, developed by 12-year-old Isabel Hughes and her Irish father, Aidan, has become the number one-rated app worldwide on Amazon’s Android App Store. FULL STORY >
Limerick brothers’ Stripe online payment company to be rolled out in Ireland first
Stripe, a new payment platform developed by Limerick Collison brothers, will debut in Ireland before continuing to the rest of Europe. FULL STORY >
Dire situation as 16 volunteers patrol River Shannon at Limerick to attempt to stop suicides
On Sunday evening, May 19 the CSR Suicide Prevention saved two lives via volunteers who regularly patrol to rescue suicide jumpers. FULL STORY >
First Rory Staunton Memorial Award presented in Ireland at Drogheda Film festival
Friday last saw the launch of the first annual ‘Ablevision Ireland International Film Festival’ and ‘The Rory Staunton Memorial Award’ in Drogheda. FULL STORY >
- Irish leader delivers powerful commencement speech at Boston College as Cardinal Sean O'Malley snubs event
- US billionaire backs Irish economy’s turnaround in response to crisis
- Guinness summit? Obama and Putin to enjoy a pint at the G8 Summit
- Computer giant Apple avoiding $25 billion in taxes with secret Irish tax haven
- Top bishops clash over excommunication of Catholics who support new abortion bill
- Anti-Abortion protest fizzles as Irish leader speaks at Boston College
- Today's Irish news roundup
- One in seven people on social welfare in Ireland have never worked
- Nigerian migrants send $653 million a year home from Ireland, new figures show
- Ireland’s dreadful winter sends the price of the potato soaring by almost double in shops
- News from around the 32 counties of Ireland
- Irish scientist’s breakthrough could lead to cure for fatal childhood affliction, whooping cough
- Irish people in UK 'less likely to identify themselves as British'
- Enda Kenny visits Boston marathon bombing site, defends Boston College visit
- Enda Kenny, not the Catholic Church, speaks for the Irish nation and its Diaspora
- Irish immigration watchdog issues guidelines for J-1 students coming to the U.S.
- Cork woman Mary Elmes honored for role in saving Jewish children from Nazis in WWII
- 76-year-old Irish nun sky takes two-mile skydive jump for charity
- Novel by Irish author selected to help traumatized Newtown survivors
- Irish PM Enda Kenny praises Bostonians and their courage in speech at JFK Memorial dinner
- Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly is the center of attention at huge Tipperary event
- Planned Parenthood support for Irish leader at Boston College is targeted by anti–abortion groups
- Remains of former Irish politician found in car wreck 23 years after he went missing
- Up to 200 Irish ghost estates may be bulldozed in plans by Housing Minister
- British emigrant group calls on government to give Irish abroad the right to vote
