On Sunday evening, May 19 the CSR Suicide Prevention saved two lives via volunteers who regularly patrol to rescue suicide jumpers. CSR volunteer Michael Mulholland rescued a young male student after receiving a tip off earlier from a concerned reveller. Two volunteers later rescued a young girl who was considering suicide after her pal had committed suicide a month earlier.

Carrick on Shannon in County Leitrim is celebrating a year full of activities as 2013 marks the 400th anniversary since King James 1st granted the town charter.

Shannon Airport has launched five new services across US, UK and Europe and 33-destinations in-all in 2013. A 22 percent upswing in transatlantic alone as airport secures five US services for the first time in five years they have announced.

Zack Snyder seems to have finally provided DC Comic fans everywhere with the Superman experience they’ve been waiting for as ‘Man of Steel’ trailers look more than promising.

Seventeen years after the first Union County St. Patrick’s Day Parade stepped off up Morris Avenue the tradition continues on Saturday, March 16 at 1:00 p.m. sharp with thousands of marchers and spectators gathering to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland.
 
This year’s Grand Marshal, Jim Tansey, will lead the march of bagpipe and high school bands, local police and fire department units, veterans groups and many more organizations through the center of Union.
 
“The Parade Committee is very proud to have as fine an Irishman as Jim Tansey leading our parade,” said Kelly Anne Scanlon, General Chairman of the 2013 Parade.

Carrick on Shannon in county Leitrim is preparing itself for a tourism boost of approximately €8m during 2013 as in excess of 26,000 additional visitors are expected to celebrate and take part in a major landmark in the town’s history, as 2013 marks the 400th anniversary since King James 1st granted the town charter.

An anti war group warned about future protests at Shannon airport to protest the continuation of US troop business after the Shannon Airport Authority announced it would specifically target US troop business.

The Irish authorities have been damned by the priest who buried tragic teenager Shannon Gallagher.

The separation of Shannon Airport from Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) could create up to 850  jobs, the government announced on Monday.

Two people were arrested on Tuesday over a security breach at Shannon last month.

From next summer, US Airways will operate a daily service from Philadelphia to Shannon, in the south west of Ireland.

United Airlines has announced that it will launch a new transatlantic route from Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland to Chicago,next summer.

General Martin Dempsey, the Irish American who is President Obama's highest ranking military adviser, has publicly thanked Ireland for allowing US soldiers to use Shannon Airport.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irishrootscafe/irish-riot---where-shannon-river-flows-116231659.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irishrootscafe/irish-riot---where-shannon-river-flows-116231659.html Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:05:16 PST Two Irish maids cause riot When doing the first season of the Irish Song Podcast, we focused on many songs from the Tin Pan Alley era One song surprised me, with its' history That song was 'Where the River Shannon Flows"Listen to our free podcast of this song and story here:http://www READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/the-irish-learned-tradition-was-first-written-in-the-trees-104439373.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/the-irish-learned-tradition-was-first-written-in-the-trees-104439373.html Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:25:13 PDT
The Irish have a learned tradition that is unique to Europe and which helped flip the continent from barbaric illiteracy in Dark Ages, to the illumination and bookishness that would become western civilization Important European universities began as Irish monasteries, built by literati that left Ireland with the education to teach the chaotic post-Roman world to read Old Irish books are tortured creatures, made from skinned calves, and often fated to the bonfires of Europe's philistine streak In the bonfires of conquerors the independent scholarly tradition of Ireland's proto-universities was almost destroyed, as with the round towers and sanctuaries along the Shannon READ MORE ]]>