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Shopping in Meath
21:48
The Government’s much-flagged jobs initiative will see a cut in the VAT rate on a range of tourism-related products and services in a bid to generate employment in the economy.The plan, announced today by Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, also in...
News aus Irland
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Kam grade per Email von einem unserer Lieferanten. Warum man zum Beispiel die M50 sperren muss, nur weil die englische Queen zu Besuch kommt, enzieht sich allerdings meiner Kenntnis.Hi All, Pls see below in relation to road restrictions in the comin...
University Blog
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The first time I watched the Eurovision Song Contest was in 1967, and I remember it really well. For those of my readers who won’t immediately know what happened that year, the winning entry was ‘Puppet on a String’, written by Bil...
Irish Craft Update
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Crime Always Pays
08:27
Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Ireland today, and naturally there’s more of a fuss being made of her visit than if she were the Queen of Sweden, say, or Swaziland. Eight hundred years of oppression, the Famine, the Black and Tans, Bobby Sands, yadda...
Film Reviews, Movie News ...
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I’ve been posting some shots of the stars of Disney’s upcoming release – Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides over on my movie news site.
Here are a couple from last night’s screening of the film during the Cannes film ...
State Magazine
11:16
This Friday sees another of our tips for 2011 enter the album fray with the release of Marcata from The Minutes on Model Citizen Records. Having taken their time to get this far, State is delighted to confirm that the record is all we hoped it would...
Sligo Events
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The Hawk’s Well Theatre is delighted to announce the third iYeats Poetry Competition – an online national and international competition open to all and with a special award for poetry from poets under 25. Prize giving and a public reading of ...
Clonmel and South Tippera...
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BANK of Ireland has been forced to put more than 2,000 customers back on tracker mortgages and compensate them, the Irish Independent has learnt. The homeowners had opted to move from trackers to fixed rates, but the bank had failed to observe Cent...
Culch.ie
13:04
Well, they were just brilliant weren’t they? Like a pair of puppies jacked up on Ritalin clothed in the shiniest of sweet-wrapper red and just GOING FOR IT. It was 4 minutes when the whole country set aside its cynicism and got 100% behind the...
The Punishment of Sloth
16:37
Another word on the upcoming visit of the head of state of the United Kingdom to the territory of the Republic of Ireland, the habits and practices of certain people, the supposed historical significance of this visit, and other related matters.
Acc...
An Irish Town Planner's B...
05:06
THE FIRST public housing development to be built in Dublin city through public-private partnership (PPP) since the collapse of the system in 2008 has been granted permission by An Bord Pleanála.Alcove Properties, owned by developer Seán Reilly, has ...
Latest Missing & Found Pe...
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Missing since Sun May 8th, a male black and white domestic cat (microchipped), under 2 years old. He is......
TV Lover
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And with six weeks to go, HBO are finally giving us a trailer for the fourth season of True Blood. Here's hoping cast shots are next ...I thought that was Jessica in that screencap but it turns out it's a character called Daisy, who Bill interrogate...
Politics
14:39
An event took place last week that could have major implications for this island of ours. I refer to the virtual landslide secured by the Scots nationalists in the Holyrood elections.
If Alex Salmond proceeds to a referendum for Independence, which...
Brian Greene
15:26
High Fidelity: A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney begins 16th May on RTÉ Lyric fm
Two of Ireland’s most talented stage performers, Jack L and Julie Feeney, have joined forces to present a ground-breaking new radio ...
Independent.ie - Analysis...
05:00
Last week's (admittedly posed) picture of President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden watching the mission to kill Osama bin Laden is already an iconic image of our time. His national security team present in the picture included Deputy Nati...
Culch.ie
10:11
Got a taste for adventure? This week’s Culch.ie highlight is The Adventure Weekend at the RDS from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd. Showcasing the best of Irish outdoorsy pursuits, the event will offering attendees the opportunity to try thing...
corkpolitics.ie
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FIANNA Fianna Fáil Spokesman on Public Expenditure and Financial Sector Reform and Cork South Central TD Michael McGrath has said that thousands of existing pensioners will have their pensions reduced as a result of the Government’s decision to impo...
Memex 1.1
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Just back from the annual Lee Seng Tee Lecture at my college, which was given this year by Peter Hennessy, Britain’s most interesting constitutional historian. His title was “Watching Prime Ministers”, which he interpreted as an a...
The Writing Life and Othe...
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How the mighty fall at times. The head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man with more power than our entire political 'elite', was arrested on board a plane bound for France over the weekend after a maid at a $3000 a night hotel in Manhattan ma...
State Magazine
14:22
This could be interesting. George Michael is back on tour this summer, although this time we’ll see him in a very different guise than we’re used to. Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour will see the singer perform both his own songs and sele...
A Kilcullen Diary - News ...
21:35
For several years the local tidy towns people and local councillors, and concerned individuals have been trying to get Kildare County Council to repair the Valley wall on the Milemill Road, writes Brian Byrne, because it was both an eyesore and a ...
Nialler9 Music Blog
11:23
There’s no doubt, having heard the new Bon Iver album (self-titled) that it’ll be a divisive album for many who fell in love with the burning embered heart of For Emma, Forever Ago. A markedly different album, the intervening three year...
Popcorn Politics
11:33
Congratulations to Irish politics’ first Royal Couple – Fine Gael’s Lucinda Creighton and Senator Paul Bradford – who have tied the knot.The couple (pictured far left) chose the day of the Royal Wedding to celebrate their nuptials and it marked the ...
The Cedar Lounge Revoluti...
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To download the file please click on the following link: DANNY MORRISONHILLS
Printed by the Sinn Féin Publicity Department in May 1986 this document, as the frontispiece notes:
…examines the background to the Hillsborough Agreement, the agree...
Garrendenny Lane Interior...
08:10
We had a glitch with our guest post yesterday so hopefully that will be up later (all due to my non-technical know how). We’re off to the ID&A show today so will bring you news of the highlights there over the weekend.
The Social Media awa...
State Magazine
16:39
Sometimes words are difficult to find. Finally making their first visit to Ireland, Rush treated their patient fans to a spectacle of giant screens, retractable rigs, resplendent lighting, revolving drum kits and indoor fireworks. Oh, and then ther...
The Mire
08:17
A row has broken out at the heart of Europe as to whether Jedward’s Eurovision semi-final performance was enough to ensure that Ireland gets a revised EU-IMF bailout. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is understood to be quite besotted with the ...

I once knew someone who would argue at length that this special day should not be called Mother’s Day, that is was Hallmark and various similar companies that changed its name from Mothering Sunday and that is alludes to anyone that mothers – be it an uncle, aunt, grandmother, older sister, father ……
Does it matter? I think it does in some ways – I think it can be a tough day for women who don’t have children or for those who have lost their mum, whereas Mothering Sunday is more general and I guess fitted better when mortality was higher and death through childbirth or for other reasons was much more common. But whichever you want to call it, if there is someone is your life that you would like to spoil on Mothers day or for anyone who mothers,...
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“A sword will pierce your own soul too.” Luke 2:34
In our increasingly secular society, one of the things that remains almost unchanged is language. The Irish equivalent of the word ‘hello’, means ‘God be with you’, to which the response is ‘God and Mary be with you’. Regard for Mary was embedded in people’s daily conversation. Whatever changes there may be in society, Mary remains a major figure in the Biblical account of Jesus, and on this Mothering Sunday it is appropriate to learn from this most famous of all mothers.
‘Sure, even his own mother couldn’t love him’, was one of the worst comments one could make about a man in the North. Sometimes it was said as an insult, the person was regarded with such little...
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Mothering Sunday was originally a Sunday in the middle of Lent in which young people who had left home went back to their “mother church” for mass. This meant that they would see their family and they would often pick flowers along the route to give to their mother. This gradually evolved into the day we celebrate today.
I never used to take the celebration seriously. It was something that meant normal lessons in school were replaced with an afternoon of art where we could make a mess and have fun making lists of words to rhyme with “mum”. All the while peeling a film of glue from our hands (the 80s equivalent of having fun on the Wii).
Throughout my teenage years I would buy a card and flowers/chocolates/plant/diary, whichever I could afford. I’d hand them...
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Today is Mothering Sunday which is a day that originally celebrated all women not just mothers. People all over the UK returned to their 'Mother Church' and this was often the only day in a year that a family was together. All the women in church were given a flower on this day hence the tradition of giving flowers on Mother's Day, as it has now become more commercially known. Unfortunately I can't be with the women in my family, my mum (pictured above), sister or granny as we all live in different countries but they are in my thoughts today. I will be having a busy day though, we are going out to lunch to celebrate Dillon's impending birthday and if the weather remains dry, this evening we will head into Dublin Quays to watch the St Patrick's Day Skyfest. Whatever you're doing today...
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