IRELAND MUST learn from the optimistic attitudes of Irish emigrants to deal with “the sense of national depression” at home, former president of IrelandMary Robinson said yesterday.
From Tony Blair to Herman Van Rompuy, the contenders for top European jobs are overwhelmingly male Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union's member states will be milling around . Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is not as anonymous as many fear, and José Manuel Barroso will be pottering...
IN ANY functioning democracy “it is the opinion of the public which dictates the relevance of a newspaper”, President Mary McAleese said at the weekend.
A 79-year-old Irish Roman Catholic priest abducted in the Philippines a month ago was freed early Thursday and neither country paid any of the kidnappers' $2 million ransom demand, Irish and Filipino authorities said. The Rev. Michael Sinnott said he was not harmed but complained of arduous journeys as kidnappers took him by sea and through jungles to evade government troops. "I was treated well....
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese attended the Royal British Legion remembrance service at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday. It was one of a series of events held in recent days to remember dead servicemen and women.
As we learned on Morning Ireland's 25th birthday programme, President of Ireland Mary McAleese is not sending Christmas Cards this year to save money, choosing to send emails instead of cards. Perhaps she knows more than us about what lies in wait in her colleague Ebenezer scrooge's (Brian Lenihan's) Bludget in December. For those still contemplating [...]
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has said that she is “walking around the Áras turning off lights” as part of her personal contribution to reducing public expenditure.
While her country faces, what some are describing as its worst ever economic crisis, the President of Ireland shows that she is not immune to the chill wind of cutback.
Terry Wogan for President of Europe Mrs Mary Robinson has been put forward as a candidate for the new European Presidency. She used to be President of Ireland. Unfortunately, La Robinson had to leave the office of Uachtarán na hÉireann because of what she no doubt thought of as a better job. Still, she graced the Presidency when she was there, and I see no reason why she couldn't be President...
The passing of Vias Livadas is mourned by not only his own countrymen, but also Irish Republicans, as the passing of a true friend and comrade in struggle. Over 50 years ago bonds of comradeship, solidarity and friendship were forged in British prisons between the revolutionaries of Cyprus and Ireland which have endured to the present day. Leaving aside political differences, Vias Livadas and his generation...