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Let’s get our house in order‘Which part of Nigeria is Uganda?” That was the question an Irish man once posed a Ugandan woman in Monaghan a few years ago as they were introducing themselves to each other.
Charles Laffiteau's Bigger PictureIf nothing else, during his first few weeks in office President Donald Trump has already succeeded in rattling both friends and foes alike in America and around the world. While it remains to be seen if his frenetic pace and chaotic management style will lead to the kind of change his supporters are hoping for, all of his executive orders and adversarial tweets are aimed at solidifying the support of the older, less-educated white voters who put him in office. In other words, there is a method to President Trump’s madness.
There’s a twist in the tale for this Filipino nanny turned business womanUnlike thousands of Filipinos recruited to Ireland as nurses in recent years, Bernadette Lagura was invited to work as a nanny. It was a big break for her to experience these shores when she arrived in September 2001. However, Bernadette’s story soon changed with a cruel twist of fate.
New UN head means a chance for reformThe new head of the United Nations faces the mammoth task of tacking a world dominated by conflicts and humanitarian disasters, including the global involvement in the civil war in Syria and the attendant refugee crisis, via which more than 5,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean to the freedom of Europe in the past 12 months.
Judge Bryan McMahon’s words should be taken to heart‘You, too, are Ireland.” Those were the words of retired High Court Judge Bryan McMahon while presiding over the citizenship ceremony that took place in the Dublin Convention Centre on 14 December 2015. Some 3,000 people from 121 countries were naturalised on that day: many had come to Ireland as migrants, immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers, while others were descendants of such.
2016 - MANOEUVRES & MANDATESWell, here we are again, comrades. And our date with destiny is edging ever closer.
Education begins, and belongs, in the homeHow can society be so myopic to the notion that institutions are not the right place to educate their children with the knowledge they will really need to face the world? So many essential activities can be employed to give the best possible education to our beloved children without sending them away from the comfort of home.
An zombaí polaitiúil is clúití san Fhionlainn, agus a aiséiríThiar sna seachtóidí ba é an tUachtarán Urho Kekkonen a bhí i gceannas ar na cúrsaí polaitíochta san Fhionlainn. Sciliúil mar a bhí sé, d’éirigh leis tacaíocht a mhealladh ó na dreamanna polaitiúla go léir, go háirithe leis an dóigh a bhí aige ar na Sóivéadaigh. Ba é Paavo Väyrynen a chomharba, mar a chonacthas dúinn – réalta óg an Pháirtí Láir, arbh é páirtí Kekkonen féin é.
In Finland, the murderer is the heroIn early December a terrible massacre took place in Imatra, a small town in eastern Finland. Three women were about to leave a pub when a young man started to shoot at them in ambush.
New year means new start for Ireland’s many culturesFrom The burning of scarecrows, kissing at the stroke of midnight and swinging fireballs, to gobbling grapes and throwing bread – when it comes to new year traditions, strange and interesting things happen all over the world. And even apart from its increasingly diverse population, Ireland is not exempt from such interesting observances. Celebrating in a pub on New Year’s Eve is just the thing as far as Brian Dowling is concerned.