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Irish patriot Collins honored with bust at his birthplace
Does the face on the statue look anything like Liam Neeson? Perhaps just a bit?It is not the Northern Ireland-born actor, but it is the real individual he played in the 1996 movie, "Michael Collins."Indeed, it is a bust of the fierce and fiery Irish ...
readingeagle.com (45 minutes ago)
Chelsea's Ashley Cole expected to rejected offer to lead England out against Republic of Ireland
Ashley Cole is likely to reject Roy Hodgson's offer to captain England in celebration of the full-back's 100th cap for his country.
telegraph.co.uk (5 hours ago)
UK's problem isn't the financial sector – it's London's dominance
Britain is a structurally unbalanced economy. The City is too big. The productive base is too small. The International Monetary Fund says so. The Bank of England says so. The government says so. Less remarked upon is the UK's geographical economic imbalance. This is even more pronounced than the imbalance between a...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Rioting, violence and shame – memories of Ireland v England in 1995
Neil Fraser watched the England fans making Nazi salutes, leering, jeering and sneering. He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas! Judas!" And then, when David Kelly – one of eight England-born players in the Republic of Ireland team that night – put his side 1-0 up, and the...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Frank Lampard will captain England against Brazil
Frank Lampard will captain England against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil this week with Ashley Cole expected to turn down the opportunity.
dailymail.co.uk (6 hours ago)
England's Roy Hodgson hails Ireland's Giovanni Trapattoni as a 'legend'
Roy Hodgson has described Giovanni Trapattoni as a "coaching legend" before England's friendly against the Republic of Ireland. The two sides meet at Wembley on Wednesday night for the first time since 1995, when the game had to be abandoned at Lansdowne Road due to England supporters rioting, with Trapattoni under...
guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)
Citi Tower changes hands in £1bn deal
The Citi Tower, one of the largest buildings in Canary Wharf, has been sold to a Middle Eastern investment fund for £1bn, with Ireland's "bad bank" receiving about £333m of the proceeds.
telegraph.co.uk (9 hours ago)
Ulster 18-24 Leinster | RaboDirect Pro12 final match report
Leinster put past disappointments behind them to scoop an elusive RaboDirect Pro12 title in their head coach Joe Schmidt's last game in charge, with Jonathan Sexton signing off before the Lions tour with 14 points as his home province were crowned champions for the first time since 2008, ending a run of three...
guardian.co.uk (10 hours ago)
O'Brien says Irish 'can finish job'
Kevin O'Brien believes Ireland can go one better against Pakistan on Sunday at Clontarf after Thursday's tied game.
bbci.co.uk (14 hours ago)
Father Powers dies in his homeland
The Rev. Bill Powers, who served the Pueblo Catholic Diocese for more than 50 years, died Tuesday in his native Ireland. He was 92.
chieftain.com (16 hours ago)
Ulster Project needs host families
Greenville’s “best kept secret” is sending out an S.O.S., asking for community volunteers to host teens from Northern Ireland.
reflector.com (20 hours ago)
Bar-stool bores ‘Weir’ out their welcome
Men hang out in a homey pub. They exchange gruff jokes, down drink after drink, and soon enough start trading tales. Naturally, “The Weir” takes place in Ireland - where else would camaraderie, storytelling and pints be so tightly intertwined? Conor McPherson’s play opened on Broadway in 1999, after a...
nypost.com (1 day ago)
Design House Blackman Cruz Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Thursday night's event drew designers Kathryn M. Ireland, Jane Hallworth and Peter Dunham among others.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 day ago)
Scottish Cup final 2013, Hibernian v Celtic: referee Willie Collum relishes his double date
Willie Collum takes charge of Sunday's Scottish Cup final before heading south to referee England v the Republic of Ireland.
telegraph.co.uk (1 day ago)
Michael Giltz: Theater: The Weir Still Haunts
THE WEIR *** 1/2 out of ****IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE What better way for the Irish Repertory Theatre to celebrate its 25th anniversary season than this pitch-perfect revival of Conor McPherson's brilliant play The Weir? I saw the show in London when it was first produced, but it's only on a second viewing that I've...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Two major acts forced to pull out of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend due to airport chaos
The musical stars were due to perform at the festival but were unable to travel to Northern Ireland after a plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow
mirror.co.uk (1 day ago)
Home team left without credible Derby contender as trials season ends
The Listed Cocked Hat Stakes here on Friday was, in theory at least, the final British Derby trial of 2013 and it drew a suitably disappointing line below a process that has failed to produce an obvious home-trained contender for the sport's most famous Classic on 1 June. Three horses were declared, without an entry...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
John Wayne's Sons to Speak at John Ford Symposium in Ireland
Backed by the Irish Film & TV Academy, the event will also feature French director Bertrand Tavernier on Ford's influence.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 day ago)
Dempsey makes late pass to win wild Freedom 100
Ireland's Peter Dempsey beat Firestone Indy Lights points leader Carlos Munoz and three other drivers down the front straightaway Friday to win the closest oval race in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history by 0.026 seconds over Colombia's Gabby Chaves.
miamiherald.com (1 day ago)
Cult punk film revives hunt for Ulster arsonist
It was a blaze that wrecked businesses, destroyed 50,000 vinyl records and left a large part of Northern Ireland's punk history in ashes – but the culprit has never been found. Now Terri Hooley, the new-wave impresario who discovered the Undertones, is hoping that publicity around a cult Ulster punk movie will spur...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Apple, Romney among legal tax cheats
Investigators say due to some creative Ireland-based tax gimmicks, Apple has managed to keep $75 billion away from the IRS’s reach just in the years 2009-2012. Even Senator John McCain conceded, “Apple claims to be the largest U.S. corporate taxpayer, but by sheer size and scale, it is also among America’s largest...
standard.net (1 day ago)
VIDEO: Ireland and Pakistan in dramatic tie
Ireland fall one run short of a dramatic win over Pakistan in Dublin.
bbci.co.uk (1 day ago)
New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519)
Hometown: Elmshurst, Illinois. The lineup: Mario Cuomo (vocals), Dominic Corso (guitar), Matt O'Keefe (guitar), Grant Brinner (bass), and Henry Brinner (drums). The background: Could we please be the first to instigate a Beatles v Stones-style face-off between the Strypes and the Orwells? We can? Thank you. The...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Pixies, Bright Shags and Bangs: The Latest In Celeb Kid Hair
Isabella Cruise, Paris Jackson and Ireland Baldwin have all made major chops lately
people.com (1 day ago)
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil Is Simply Wrong Here About Apple's Taxes
Even after the Senate Subcommittee hearings there are some who still don't quite seem to understand what Apple's been doing over taxes. Sadly, Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil seems to be one of them. An important point to understand is that Apple has not been moving profits out of the US in order to reduce the corporate...
forbes.com (1 day ago)
Google May Follow Apple on Tax-Dodging Dividend
Google (GOOG) may follow its Silicon Valley competitor Apple (AAPL) in paying out a dividend, amid increasing scrutiny from the public on how both companies manage their mounting cash in low-tax countries like Ireland.
forbes.com (1 day ago)
Google May Follow Apple on Tax-Dodging Dividend
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Google may follow its Silicon Valley competitor Apple in paying out a dividend, amid increasing scrutiny from the public on how both companies manage their mounting cash in low-tax countries like Ireland. Like Apple, however, Google may wait until its bank account swells to about $100...
thestreet.com (1 day ago)
BBC apologises over 'SF/IRA' label
Sinn Fein complains to the BBC after a Question Time floor plan refers to Northern Ireland's education minister John O'Dowd as "Sinn Fein/IRA!"
bbci.co.uk (1 day ago)
Horsemeat company regularly mixed horse in with beef, say Polish workers
"Everything passed through my hands: beef, horse, old meat that stank, sometimes even 'fresh' meat but it wasn't exactly fresh … Yes, I cut horse. I suspected there was something wrong but I just did what I was told to do," Jan Kowalski told us. Kowalski (not his real name) is one of 85 Polish migrant workers who...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Man faces court over 1982 Hyde Park IRA bombing
A man appeared before the Old Bailey on Friday charged with the murder of four British solders in the 1982 Hyde Park IRA bomb blast. John Downey, 61, of County Donegal, Ireland, was arrested at Gatwick airport on Sunday. He is accused of being responsible for a car bomb left in South Carriage Drive which killed...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
