Faye Jarvis recounts an affecting interview with a Catholic woman, now in her late 60s, who had become pregnant at 19. The stigma of having a baby out of wedlock — to use the language of the time — in Ireland on the cusp of the 1970s was so strong that her family dispatched her […]
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Ireland’s crazy 90m dropout
Video Ireland’s crazy 90m dropout0:23 Rugby League: Ireland have kicked a line dropout 90 metres to restart the game against Papua New Guinea. November 5th 2017 a minute ago /display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Sport news and galleries/NRL News/ NRL News Hayne is a has been0:58 November 5th 2017 2 hours ago /display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Sport news and galleries/NRL News/ Arrests made after […]
Ryanair’s incoming COO says the job is ‘national service’ to help ‘Ireland’s greatest company’
Thomson Reuters Peter Bellew leaving his job as CEO of Malaysia Airlines to rejoin Ryanair as COO. Ryanair reeling from booking cancellation crisis and dispute with pilots. “They need my help and there is a big challenge. It is a form of national service,” Bellew said. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines’ outgoing chief executive […]
Can Refugees Breathe New Life Into Ireland’s Empty Towns?
If County Roscommon is known around these parts for being remote, Ballaghaderreen and its 1,808 residents are a small mark on Roscommon’s map. Like towns across rural Ireland, Ballaghaderreen has been crippled by the fallout of the 2008 economic crisis. The closure of a major meat-processing plant in 2010 took out 200 jobs. By the […]
Tickets Now Required to Cross Northern Ireland’s Famous Rope Bridge
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Ireland’s food industries would be worst hit by a hard Brexit
IN 1962 Tony O’Reilly, head of the Irish Dairy Board, had an idea that would help transform Ireland’s economy. He wanted to create a premium brand for Irish butter to break into the growing British market. The new product, named Kerrygold and backed with a large marketing budget, was sold in half-pound packs in a […]
Martin McGuiness understood the power of political symbolism — and it was critical to Northern Ireland’s peace process
Reuters From the Bogside in Derry to the Queen’s residence in Buckingham Palace, the journey made by Martin McGuinness has rightly been referred to as nothing short of remarkable. For some, McGuinness epitomised Irish republican connections to a violent past. For others he represented the journey that many took across the north. But what was […]
Brexit poses a threat to Ireland’s aircraft-leasing business
THE glass office blocks of Dublin’s docklands still stand proud; the banks that built them no longer do. The financial crisis of 2008 took down Ireland’s six biggest lenders. Within five years Dublin slid from being rated by Z/Yen, a London-based business think-tank, as the world’s tenth-best financial centre to its 70th. Britain’s readiness to […]
