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The Big Interview

Building a bridge from the east

Last update: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Abeaming Liu Biwei, China’s ambassador to Ireland, stands at the doorway of his residence on Dublin’s Ailesbury Road, a veritable ‘Ramsay Street’ for international diplomats.

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Ringing in the changes

Last update: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

From a family of historians, Poland’s ambassador to Ireland, Tadeusz Szumowski, has an expert’s perspective of his country’s new place in Europe. He speaks to CATHERINE REILLY about Poland’s relationship with Ireland, borne of the many similarities he sees between our two peoples.

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Looking to the future

Last update: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 ‘No-nonsense’ is a phrase that comes to mind when meeting Latvia’s former president Dr Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who spoke exclusively to CATHERINE REILLY during her visit to Dublin last week 

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‘Integration is an area that waits for nobody’

Last update: Thursday, December 13, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Labour’s Senate immigration spokesperson, Senator Alex White, talks to CATHERINE REILLY about Pat Rabbitte’s infamous ‘40 million Poles’ remark, why he believes Integration Minister Conor Lenihan needs to speed-up his integration proposals, and how RTÉ could reach out to immigrants 

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Tacking Aids in Tanzania

Last update: Thursday, November 29, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 As World Aids Day approaches on 1 December, SANDY HAZEL meets Dr Samuel Mtullu, programme manager of the Tanga Aids Working Group in Tanzania 

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‘Muslims are proud to be Americans’

Last update: Thursday, November 22, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Farah Pandith is senior adviser to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the US Government. She is focused on Muslim communities in Europe and is responsible for overseeing policy regarding integration, democracy and Islam. She also works on issues relating to countering violent ‘Islamic’ extremism. SANDY HAZEL met with Pandith during her one-day visit to Ireland last week 

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The witness

Last update: Thursday, November 8, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 CATHERINE REILLY reports from Memphis, Tennessee at the church of Reverend Samuel ‘Billy’ Kyles, who was present during Martin Luther King‘s last hours, and hears his thoughts on America as the 40th anniversary of King’s assassination approaches 

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‘Dublin has changed in many ways’

Last update: Thursday, October 11, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Celebrated Nigerian actor Olu Jacobs talks to SANDY HAZEL about his role in the adapted Playboy of the Western World currently playing at the Abbey, and compares his experiences in 1970s Dublin with the city he sees today 

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Desperate for peace

Last update: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Savio Carvalho, Oxfam’s programme manager for Uganda, spoke with Sandy Hazel about his recent visit to Oxfam’s Ireland branch and its work in the central African country emerging from years of conflict  

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Tunji tuned in to Ireland

Last update: Thursday, September 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Tunji Sotimirin is a talented Nigerian actor, dancer, comedian, director and musician. He talks to SANDY HAZEL ahead of his Ireland-wide tour with Declan O’Gorman’s play, At Peace 

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There is no word in the Irish language for ‘foreigner’

Last update: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Eoin Dillon from Irish fusion-folk band Kíla talks about his band’s long road to success – and how he hopes to see new faces at gigs.

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‘I don’t see what’s great about retirement’

Last update: Thursday, August 23, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Sir Trevor McDonald – the former news anchor and current presenter of Britain’s Favourite View on ITV1 – talks about being ITN’s first black reporter and insists he will never retire. 

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Sanjeev’s passage to India

Last update: Thursday, August 16, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer of The Kumars At No 42, reveals the inspiration behind his latest BBC Two series India with Sanjeev Bhaskar, as his eponymous tie-in book is published.

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‘My life was a game of survival’

Last update: Thursday, August 9, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Paul Barber, best known as Denzil in Only Fools And Horses, reveals how humour helped him cope with a life spent in foster care, as his autobiography, Foster Kid, is published. 

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A Permanent change

Last update: Thursday, July 26, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

The new boss at Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, talks to Chinedu Onyejelem about hard work at the top, and developing a workforce that represents the changing face of Ireland

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‘I never thought he was going to die’

Last update: Thursday, July 19, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Marina Litvinenko, widow of ex-KGB agent and polonium poisoning victim Alexander Litvinenko, talks about how she has coped since his death and her hopes for bringing his killer to justice. Marina has co-written his story, Death Of A Dissident, with their friend Alex Goldfarb.  

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Breaking the bonds

Last update: Thursday, July 12, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Catherine Reilly meets Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves, an activist working tirelessly to highlight the problem of modern-day slavery around the worldEver since he picked up an Anti-Slavery International pamphlet in London in the early 1990s, Kevin Bales has focused his professional life on combating the contemporary slave trade. 

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The pipes are calling

Last update: Thursday, July 5, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Sandy Hazel speaks with Eamonn Walsh, world champion uilleann piper, about this career so far, his future plans, and his issues with the new airline baggage rules 

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