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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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It was Ronald Reagan, of all people, who pointed out that if prostitution was the world’s oldest profession, and politics it’s second oldest, there was often not a lot of difference between the two. Political corruption is as old as the hills, but is it inevitable? “You will never get rid of the human tendency…
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Hundreds of happy customers turned out in the freezing cold this morning to see the re-opening of Clerys on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. The department store, which is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe, closed suddenly last July when flash flooding caused millions of euro in damage. Minister for Arts, Heritage and the…
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Rumours have been rife in the Irish media for a long time that RTÉ’s top crime drama “Love/Hate” is set to be remade by the US market. Last week, the Irish Daily Star reported that if the series were to go ahead, Colin Farrell would be interested in taking on the role of Nidge. TheCity.ie…
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The end was near. White-hot needles and knives were puncturing my abdomen like a swarm of wasps defending their hive. I had been soldiering on for the past two and a half hours in the confines of public transport but my will was slowly disintegrating; every man has his breaking point. I had decided not…
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As darkness fell last Wednesday evening, thousands of enthusiastic runners took part in the Run in the Dark event to raise money for the Mark Pollock Trust and spinal cord injuries. The 5k and 10k races took place simultaneously in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, London and Manchester with some unofficial runs taking place in other towns…
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