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Irish missionary behind Kenya's running mecca (IrishCentral)

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:46:10 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

A small Kenyan village in the Great Rift Valley has become a production line of running talent thanks to an Irish missionary.

Temple Bar - Dublin’s tourist trap not a ‘cultural mecca’ (IrishCentral)

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:45:16 PST

Temple Bar SquareWaking up last Saturday morning to a small bit of rare sunshine in Dublin and a desire to seek some more cultural inspiration in the city, I was trying to decide between Temple Bar (‘Dublin’s cultural quarter’) or a trip to Dublin Castle Catelyn and Maggie, my other two roomies, were still recovering from their night out before, and in need of clearing their heads with some fresh air and hangover food, so we all agreed on heading down to Temple Bar for a stroll and a bite to eatIt was mid-afternoon by the time the girls actually get themselves showered and made-up and the clouds were forming over quickly, so I was not a happy camper to start with! I had read that there was a food market, a National Photographic Archive with an exhibition area, a National Irish Film Institute and a Project Arts Center and I was dying to hit the cobble stone streets of Temple Bar to see them allWe started on Fleet Street, right off Westmoreland Street, so we wouldn’t miss a thing READ MORE

Irish Slaves taken to Mecca (IrishCentral)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:05:13 PDT

Irish Taken and Sold as SlavesOn June 20 Algerian pirates from the Barbary Coast slaughtered and enslaved inhabitants from a village in Cork, Ireland Over 100 inhabitants were takenTo make matters worse, an Irishman from Dungarvanby the name of Hacket, betrayed the town to the pirates to save his own skinWho were the pirates ?This bloody band of pirates put the village in flamesand took as many as possible as slaves READ MORE