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Ireland welcomes a wave of international visitors for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities
Hundreds of thousands of international tourists are expected to travel to the country over the bank holiday weekend for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. By Alex Cloud Fáilte Ireland estimates that over 589,000 people attended the three-day St. Patrick’s Day festival last year, which generated €138 million in visitor revenue. While the figures for the current year are undetermined, Dublin Live reported that over half a million people were in…
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Aoife Gallagher discusses the U.S Primaries; the electing of U.S presidential candidates and the complexity surrounding this. Have you ever tried to truly understand how the process of electing a president in the US works? Although the US is a country run by democrats, the mind boggling and complicated system that Americans use to elect…
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Political Editor, Fergus Carroll, breaks down the Irish General Election, in a first-part guide to #GE16. On Thursday morning Taoiseach Enda Kenny ended weeks of mounting speculation when he announced that the general election will be held on 26 February. The announcement was made in a video posted to the Taoiseach’s Facebook and Twitter accounts…
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Gambling is a serious addiction that continues to affect people young and old, and with betting more accessible than ever before, it is a problem that is only going to get worse. Ger Cooney, a senior addiction counsellor in the Rutland Centre in Templeogue, has found that gambling is on the rise, especially with young people.…
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Food businesses are finding that they have to respond more and more to a wide variety of food intolerance among customers. Coeliac disease is now the most commonly catered for dietary requirement. Coeliac disease is a condition that prevents food from being absorbed through the follicles in the intestines of people who are gluten intolerant. Sinead…
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Sellers braved the harsh outdoors for the November Flea Market in Newmarket square last Sunday. Despite the weather, those attending were in the high spirits that have come to be expected at the flea market events. The organisers thanked everyone who braved the stormy weather to make it out to sell, buy and to hang…
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As it stands, up to 5,000 people in Ireland don’t have somewhere to call their home this Christmas, with families sleeping rough, living in emergency shelter or temporary accommodation. In 2014, Focus Ireland, the country’s leading charity that works with homeless people, found themselves supporting over 11,000 men, women and children. Speaking to The City, Rebecca…
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