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  1. E. coli infection stops Elton John
    October 31, 09

    A nasty case of E coli bacterial infection has forced Elton John to postpone his final date of his Red Piano world tour in Ireland at Dublin's O2 venue.

  2. Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly plans to swap Hollywood for family life
    October 30, 09

    “A Beautiful Mind” star Jennifer Connelly admits she has no projects lined up for when she finishes filming the upcoming movie “What’s Wrong With Virginia?”

  3. U.S. crops wiped out as Irish famine blight becomes epidemic
    August 10, 09

    The destructive fungal disease – the same one that caused the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s – that first sprung up in plants in Rhode Island and New York has spread even further in the northeast to Massachusetts farms.

  4. Irish research team in Alzheimer's breakthrough
    July 14, 09

    Irish doctors may hold the key to early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. An early diagnosis could help stave off the debilitating effects of the disease. Irish researchers were able to correctly identify 95 percent of 345 people who had progressed from mild cognitive impairment to early Alzheimer's.

  5. New York crops hit by Irish Famine disease
    July 10, 09

    New York has been hit by Irish Famine disease. The destructive fungal blight is wiping out tomato and potato plants across the state and much of the Northeast. The technical terms is "late blight," but it's the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s.

  6. Irish genes helping to find some answers for brain disorders
    June 04, 09

    Ireland’s relative lack of immigration, good health care and pure gene pool has rendered its people a great test study for degenerative brand disorders.

  7. Earth Day warning: Don't send in the clones says Irish expert
    April 22, 09

    Failure to act now will create a freak planet of clones and humans and a booming market in spare parts for humans.

  8. Meet Ireland's most prolific high king - you may be descended from him
    April 15, 09

    The incredibly fertile Irish warlord, Niall of the Nine Hostages, is thought to have 3 million descendants worldwide

  9. Saxons Vikings and Celts The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
    March 10, 09

    Bryan Sykes is a professor of human genetics at Oxford University and also operates a company that traces human genetic backgrounds. Think of him as a CSI detective for history buffs. Sykes tackles the Irish genetic code in his new book "Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland.

  10. God Wins But Does He Really?
    March 10, 09

    It says a lot about the glacial slowness of some religious and political debates in the U.S. that "Inherit the Wind", the famed 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee now playing on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, seems more relevant today than the era in which it was written.

  11. Grandpa Bertie!
    March 10, 09

    IT was quite a weekend of celebration for Irish PM Bertie Ahern.

    The election results put him back into power despite media predictions saying he'd be kicked to the curb. Even better, his adorable twin grandsons, who were recently born several weeks premature, have been given a clean bill of health, as evidenced by their first photo op with grandpa, mom Georgina (Bertie's daughter), and dad Nicky Byrne, a member of the pop group Westlife.

  12. Irish Students Involved in Key Research
    March 09, 09

    TWO Irish university graduates will spend the next six months receiving an invaluable education in two of New York's most prestigious teaching hospitals while also leaving their mark on medical history.Martin Downes, 32, and Cork woman Leagh Powell, 23, arrived in New York last month to participate in a six month research program; Powell with Weill Cornell Medical College and Downes with Mount Sinai School of Medicine.The FAS Science Challenge Program, organized by FAS (the Irish National Training and Employment Authority) and headed up by John Cahill, affords 43 Irish graduates an opportunity to come to the U.

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