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New law to criminalize buying sex to be introduced in Irish parliament (IrishCentral)

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:32 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

A bill to criminalize the purchase of sex will be introduced to the Irish parliament today. It will target men seeking sex from prostitutes.

One Direction set to buy a customized version of Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine (IrishCentral)

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:48:16 PDT

"Little Things" is one of One Direction's latest songsThe 'Little Things' hitmakers - Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson - are investing almost £70,000 on a vehicle styled like the van from the popular cartoon series and they hope to use it as a new tour busAn insider told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "The boys love cartoons and 'Scooby Doo' is a cult classic"They wanted to do something special ahead of their US tour and decided to get a bespoke tour bus created The guys are desperate to have it shipped over to America so it can join them on tour READ MORE

Former Irish prostitute calls on men who buy sex to be named and shamed in new book (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:00:02 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Rachel Moran was only 15 years old and homeless in Dublin when she first turned to prostitution.

Irish banks get go-ahead to repossess homes and buy-to-let properties (IrishCentral)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:22:24 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

The Irish government is about to give the green light to banks to repossess the homes of distressed mortgage holders.

Justice Minister confirms Irish government will continue to buy weapons from Israel (IrishCentral)

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:33:19 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

Ireland will continue to buy weapons from Israel, according to Minister for Justice Alan Shatter.

Top ten Irish gifts to buy online this Christmas 2012 (IrishCentral)

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:31:33 PST

Wilde and Wooley This is my personal pick of the Top Irish Christmas Gifts available online this yearSome of them are eternally popular mega brands and some are extra special hidden gems that are starting to make a name for themselves internationallyBuying Irish supports our economy but more importantly keeps those rural communities, that our visitors love, alive, thriving and vibrant1 READ MORE

Website lets you buy piece of Ireland for $50 - cashing in on Irish American nostalgia? - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:31:17 PST

Irish plots, soil, available ahead of The GatheringFirst it was acreage on the moon, now it's dinky one square foot plots of sod nestled somewhere in rural IrelandBuyIrelandcom is one of several online Irish retailers stepping up their effort to make a quick buck from Irish-American nostalgia for the 'Emerald Isle' - taking a lead, no doubt, from government-sponsored initiatives like the controversial Certificate of Irish Heritage and that even more divisive initiative, The GatheringFounded by two Limerick businessmen in 2003, the website, allows willing customers a 20 year leasehold legal interest in the miniscule holdings, and is a sort of natural addition to web-based earth retailer officialirishdirt READ MORE

House prices see biggest rise since 2007 - What can you buy in Ireland for $300,000? (IrishCentral)

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:40:32 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Irish house prices showed a five percent rise during the month of August. Although this is a sign that the housing market is stabilizing, the average price for a residential property has fallen annually by 11.8 percent.

Irish farmer buys back land he sold for $2 million for $75,000 (IrishCentral)

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:29:29 PDT

By: JAMES O'SHEA

An Irish farmer has bought back land he sold at the height of the Celtic Tiger for close to $2 million for just $75,000.

Top ten strangest Irish gifts you could possible buy online (IrishCentral)

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:27:43 PDT

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An Irish farmer has bought back land he sold at the height of the Celtic Tiger for close to $2 million for just $75,000.

Pennsylvania antique shop owner buys 100 year old Irish skeleton at auction – VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:02:17 PDT

By: CATHY HAYES

Bill Wood, an antiques dealer, has bought two skeletons at Tom Hall Auctions in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

Campaign to make buying sex illegal in Ireland gathers momentum (IrishCentral)

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:04:40 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

Fifty-six organizations gathered at Leinster House on Friday in support of the Turn Off the Red Light campaign, calling for the purchase of sex to be criminalized in Ireland.

New Irish app allows you to buy your friend back in Ireland a pint - “Text me a drink” (IrishCentral)

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:01:41 PDT

Text me a drink!!! READ MORE

Irish American businessman buys every foreclosed home in his county (IrishCentral)

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:09:09 PDT

By: LAURA BRYN SISSON

In a move that rankled some locals last Tuesday, former yacht dealer Bill McMachen bought up every foreclosed property in Macomb County, Michigan, for $4.9million, Fox 2 News, Detroit, reported. The payment figure reflected the amount of back taxes owed on 645 properties, 403 of which are family homes.

U2 star’s housekeeper stole $600,000 to buy racehorses court hears (IrishCentral)

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:36:54 PDT

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

U2 bass player Adam Clayton was astounded when cops told him his housekeeper had spent $600,000 of his money on horses.

Buy 14 houses in Co Kerry for just $62,000 - rock bottom Irish property auction (IrishCentral)

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:59:44 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

One of the dozens of so-called ‘ghost estates’ around the economically struggling Ireland, a vacant property of 14 homes in Co Kerry, can be yours for only $62,000. Other distressed properties around the country will be auctioned off by Allsop Space next month.

Irish woman buys back brother’s home from bank who repossessed it (IrishCentral)

Fri, 25 May 2012 05:19:35 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Orla Mulvey beat the banks this week when she purchased back her brother’s repossessed property at an auction for just €76,000. Her purchase is now considered to be the first time a family has bought back a repossessed property.

Billionaire Warren Buffett buys 63 newspapers for $142 million (IrishCentral)

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:26:40 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Billionaire Warren Buffett has entered into a new deal to purchase 63 newspapers nationwide for an astounding $142 million. Buffett is purchasing the papers from Media General, Inc who will relinquish ownership of majority of their properties, except for their Tampa, Florida holdings.

The Associated Press reports that this is Buffett’s biggest foray yet into the newspaper business. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has owned the Buffalo News of New York for decades and recently bought its hometown paper, the Omaha World-Herald.

The only women Irish men buy drinks for are prostitutes (IrishCentral)

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:15:31 PDT

Mollie KervickI’m twenty I grew up in a tiny town in northern Connecticut and have been going to college in Maine for the last two years That’s why city-living is a foreign concept to me Living in a city in a foreign country is even more out of my repertoire READ MORE

The learned Irish tradition was first written in the trees (IrishCentral)

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