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JEERS and sexual insults were hurled at a woman who went to a Kilrush pub to get water for horses, ponies and donkeys that were standing in the searing heat at the local fair last week.

The eight finalists in the 2013 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) Awards, have been. The Awards celebrate and support Ireland’s brightest and most ambitious entrepreneurs with game changing ideas to solve the social problems facing Ireland.

GAA history will be made at the end of June when the All-Ireland football qualifier between Carlow and Laois will be played on a Friday night.

A historic moment in Irish American history will take place today, at the graveside of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, when a flame will be taken from the Eternal Flame to be transported to Ireland, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his memorable visit to Ireland in June 1963.

A young entrepreneur, Ciara Ryan (29) from Dundrum in Dublin, has launched a website to raise funds for emigrants who cannot afford to come back home on visits or permanently.

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President Obama landed in Belfast this morning and delivered a strong speech urging Northern Ireland leaders to stay on course on the peace process.

Over 200 business leaders from the United States and hundreds of others will be in attendance at the K Club in Kildare this weekend attending the Worldwide Ireland Funds annual conference.

As the Irish government considers a new law that would weaken the current ban on abortion, Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, is warning his Irish colleagues to avoid the mistakes made in America.

Statistics published by a controversial U.S. based dating service suggests that two students a day in Northern Ireland are signing up to receive a University education in return for sex. The company which operates the website claims that 6,460 women and 555 men in Northern Ireland have met rich partners through their website, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

President Obama will make a major speech about the Northern Irish situation at the Waterfront conference center in Belfast on Monday. He will be in Ireland for the G8 summit in Enniskillen next week.

While much of the world will pause this November and commemorate the five decades that have passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the Irish, as only the Irish can do, are remembering and celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic June 26-29, 1963 four day state visit to Ireland with 12 months of events and remembrances on both sides of the Atlantic.

Medical experts have expressed concern over he the problem of obesity in Ireland and warn that almost half of Irish adults will be obese by 2030 if childhood overweight and obesity is not tackled now. 

The second History Festival of Ireland is due to take place this weekend, the 15th & 16th June, in Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who was the first astronaut to tweet from space, has announced his retirement from the space programme via Twitter. The Daily Mail reports that on Monday, June 10, 2013 he tweeted a picture of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) waving goodbye to him and wrote, “To say goodbye to these good people today was much harder than I expected.”