IrishCentral Mitchell Scholarship - b5cc3275d518416eacb61d676e8d84d1 http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Mitchell+Scholarship IrishCentral Mitchell Scholarship en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Mitchell-Scholarship-programme-is-saved-according-to-US-Ireland-Alliance-164708076.html http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Mitchell-Scholarship-programme-is-saved-according-to-US-Ireland-Alliance-164708076.html Mitchell Scholarship programme is saved according to US-Ireland Alliance (IrishCentral) Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:51:32 PDT
By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

The Mitchell Scholarship programme is to be renewed in 2014 after a u-turn by the US State Department.

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Trina VargoThe decision by the US State Department to end funding for the Mitchell Scholarships comes as a  great surprise The scholarship, named after former Senator George Mitchell  sends 12 US students a year to Ireland and was modeled on the Rhodes scholars, but has become embroiled in continuing controversyThe controversial statements of the Alliance president Trina Vargo hardly helped She left Irish community leaders incensed on issues such as the Irish undocumented, comparing them to putting lipstick on pigs if they were legalised READ MORE ]]>