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The woman who changed Ireland - Mary Robinson turns 75

Celebrating the life of the most consequential Irish woman of the 20th century, Ireland's first female president, a woman of pioneering spirit and a welcoming heart - Mary Robinson

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Hillary and Trump - what are my birds doing

It's time we dealt with the antics of the competing pair of bird-shaped windmills mounted proudly on my garden fence here in Killaloe on the edge of the Shannon.

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Thriving New York Irish Aisling Center upcoming events

From youth growth and talent, fitness and fund and building a better future for the community last year was a banner year for the Aisling Irish Community Center, in the Bronx, and this year is set to be just as successful

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Brexit hasn’t gone away, you know

What happens then will be interesting or Ireland's nightmare... If Brexit goes badly, that will all come to a shuddering halt

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Ireland prepares to vote on loosen divorce laws

As Ireland prepares for a series of votes new details have revealed that Carlow has the highest divorce rate in Ireland since 2015.

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Dr. Pierce Brosnan addresses anti-Irish racism in Penn commencement speech

Pierce Brosnan’s message to the 2019 graduates of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania on Sunday was on point – you don’t have to be James Bond in order to achieve great things in life

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U2’s Bono shares his love of books on the Today show

It comes as no surprise that the U2 frontman loves to read

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Beware! Car rental rip off continues in Ireland

Readers confirm that Irish-based car rental firms continue to take advantage of vulnerable, rushed and stressed tourist making extortionate and inexplicable charges

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IRA male rape victims call for government probe

Two IRA male rape victims have called for a probe into their claim that members of Sinn Fein and the IRA attempted to pervert the course of justice and to cover up the crime in a kangaroo court.

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Dissident republicans spark tight security for Prince Charles visit to Ireland

Dissident republicans prompted a step-up in security for Prince Charles and his wife Camilla's trip to Ireland.

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Frank McCourt Summer School returns to New York City

The University of Limerick/Frank McCourt Summer School in New York will return to Glucksman Ireland House this year for an intensive June 27 to 30 run

History

Recalling a time when the Irish in America loved immigrants

An excellent, insightful but also depressing book called "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

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GAA is the best salve of all

Zam Buk which, if you were born in Ireland anytime during the last century, was liberally smeared upon your bodily hurts by the wise mothers.

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U2’s Adam Clayton on fame, his battle with alcohol and the demons that lurk

U2 bassist Adam Clayton has opened up about his battle against alcohol and his dealings with fame, saying that demons still lurk and he works hard at keeping them at bay

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Ireland’s broadband plan’s disconnect

The Irish government's National Broadband Plan for Ireland's scale is breathtaking but is it even possible?

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Months mind for Lyra McKee murdered by New IRA held in Belfast

Journalist Lyra McKee will be remembered in Derry to mark one month since she was murdered by the New IRA

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Ballymurphy British paratrooper confirms shoot to kill policy

A British paratrooper wept as he told an inquest that out of control soldiers were prepared to shoot anyone on the streets during the Ballymurphy killings in West Belfast

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Shannon Gaels GAA club's field of dreams officially opens

After ten years of endeavor Shannon Gaels GAA club, in Queens, celebrated its official opening with hundreds of players and parents in attendance

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Northern Ireland unionists hold only answer to Brexit madness

Could the Democratic Unionist Party and Ireland’s border with the United Kingdom hold the only sane answer to the Brexit shambles?

Cahir O'Doherty

Vulture funds are manufacturing homelessness worldwide

Statistics show us that the numbers of homeless in New York City have reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s

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Take my organs… but with some stipulations

There are so many surreal stories this May along both coasts of the Wild Atlantic Way that it is extremely hard to sort them all out into any kind of order at all.

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Leading Irish Ultra Athlete’s odyssey ends in New York City

One of Ireland's leading ultra-athletes received a hero's welcome after successfully completing a back-breaking 5,000km coast-to-coast bike-and-run trek across the US

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Quinnipiac's Ireland's Great Hunger Institute hosts charity famine walk

“Walking in the Footsteps…of our Irish Famine Ancestors” 5k walk plans to honor those who are suffering from famine or displacement

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Michael Fassbender at the races back home in County Kerry

X-Men: Dark Phoenix star took part in the Rally of the Lakes in Killarney and took time to speak to local students during his vacation back home in Ireland

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Grief Is The Thing With Feathers at St. Ann's Warehouse

Playwright Enda Walsh is back with his theatrical adaptation of Max Porter's bestselling book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, a searing meditation on what happens when a family lose their guiding star

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Ireland loosens divorce laws, backs action on climate in European elections

On this day: Oscar Wilde faces trial for homosexuality

Irish grandfather appeals for funds to fly home after suffering stroke in the US

America’s highest paid legal sex worker is an Irish woman

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Never-before-seen footage of John F Kennedy Jr’s wedding revealed

850 Irish Famine victims buried in mass grave in Boston finally remembered

Celebrating the Irish who fought in the Civil War this Memorial Day

Irish constitution in 1937 defied Hitler and allowed Jews to practice their faith

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Remembering the renaissance man of the Irish revolution on his birthday

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Gorgeous Galway Manor and Cottage is the dream Irish vacation rental

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Dublin’s beauty explored - four months edited into four gorgeous minutes

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