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Britain's Got Talent 2017 St Patrick's Junior Choir Full Audition S11E03
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Irish Tweeters To Donald Trump: You Are Not Welcome
A warm Irish welcome will likely not be afforded to President Donald Trump when he visits the country in November. The White House confirmed Friday that Trump would visit the Emerald Isle to “renew the deep and historic ties between our two nations” as part of a European trip in which he’ll also visit France to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
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Donald Trump to visit Ireland and France in November
Donald Trump will visit Ireland in November, it was confirmed on Friday. The president will also visit France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war. The exact timing of the European trip was not announced. The leader of the Irish Labour party promised to oppose the visit. In a statement, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, said Trump’s time in Ireland would “renew the deep and historic ties between our two nations”.
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I was raped by a priest, then it was covered up. The pope has to tell the truth
I remember the last papal visit to Ireland. It was 1979, and I was aged 13. I went to a Christian Brothers school. I sang at mass every Sunday, occasionally did readings, and the youth group I attended every week took place in a convent. I remember being envious because my older brother and sister got to see the pope, but I didn’t. I was in the minority in that regard: a staggering 75% of the population saw John Paul II during his three-day visit. One-third of the population attended the papal mass in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. That event remains the largest single mobilisation of people in Irish history.
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'Say Nope to the Pope' protest planned for Papal visit in Ireland
Secure tickets to Pope Francis's Sunday mass in Dublin, then don't go. That's the plan for "Say Nope to the Pope" protesters, who will instead hold a demonstration against the Catholic Church's scandals of past and present. Plus: The Papal visit to Ireland is big business for shops selling Pope merchandise. See the strangest items on sale!
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Homeless families in Dublin 'could be forced out of the city' for duration of pope's visit
Rights groups in Dublin have called on city officials to prevent the displacement of homeless people staying in emergency accommodation during the pope's upcoming visit to Ireland. The Irish Department of Housing has been accused of planning to remove families currently housed in various hotels and bed and breakfasts in order to make room for the influx of tourists arriving for the pontiff.
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Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland
A mysterious crop circle in an Irish farmer's field is actually the outline of a buried monument from 5,000 years ago, archeologists say.
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Ireland calls referendum on whether to remove women’s ‘duties in the home’ from constitution
Ireland is to hold a referendum to remove a clause in the constitution marking the importance of a woman’s “life within the home” and encouraging mothers to shun employment to fulfil domestic duties, the government announced on Thursday. The move is the latest to update Ireland’s socially conservative 1937 constitution to reflect a more secular and socially liberal population.
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'We've Made History': Ireland Joins France, Germany and Bulgaria in Banning Fracking
Ireland is set to ban onshore fracking after its Senate passed legislation on Wednesday that outlawed the controversial drilling technique. The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 now awaits Irish President Michael D. Higgins' signature. The president is expected to sign it into law "in the coming days." The Emerald Isle will join three other European Union member states, France, Germany and Bulgaria that have banned the practice on land.
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The bread that changed how the Irish eat breakfast, blaa, blaa, blaa....No Really!
French refugees brought a version of this bread to Ireland centuries ago – and in one Irish city it’s become such a staple, residents are referred to by its name.
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Ireland to hold blasphemy referendum
The Republic of Ireland will hold a referendum on whether to change its laws against blasphemy. It is expected that the vote will be held on the same day as the Presidential election, which is likely to take place in October. The move is part of a commitment made in the programme for government. The previous Fine Gael-Labour coalition, which governed from 2011 to 2016, had promised a vote on the law.
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In Irish abortion referendum, a powerful blow to once-invincible Church
New law by year-end could be named after Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after being refused abortion.
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Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism
Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church. The surprising landslide cemented the nation’s liberal shift at a time when right-wing populism is on the rise in Europe and the Trump administration is imposing curbs on abortion rights in the United States. In the past three years alone...
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Ireland ends abortion ban as 'quiet revolution' transforms country
Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws in a referendum that its prime minister called the culmination of a "quiet revolution" in what was one of Europe's most socially conservative countries.
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Ireland overwhelmingly votes to repeal abortion ban, exit polls project
The results followed a contentious and emotional campaign.
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After Windrush, will the rights of the Irish in Brexit Britain really be safe?
Ministers say there will be no change to the rights of the Irish to live and work freely in the UK. But the government doesn't seem to realise that new legislation will be needed. By Patrick Maguire.
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Why UK universities are funding Irish students to come home to vote
Tears poured silently down my face as the Oxford Student’s Union debated the merits of the proposed motion: should eligible Irish students, regardless of means or voting preference, be financially supported to exercise their democratic right in Ireland’s upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment?
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Andy Williams - Danny Boy
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AIB criticised for monitoring customers’ social media accounts
AIB says viewing social media accounts helps it understand customer behaviour. The national civil society group campaigning for a Yes vote in the upcoming Irish referendum on the Eighth Amendment fell victim to a cyberattack last week. DDoS attacks meant the Together For Yes fundraising page as well as Amnesty International’s went down for a period of a half hour and 45 minutes, respectively. The DDoS attacks originated in Ireland.
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Pilot and 7-year-old boy killed in plane crash in County Offaly, Ireland
A man and young boy were killed when a plane crashed in Ireland, minutes after 16 parachutists jumped from the aircraft. The pilot, believed to be from the UK, and a seven-year-old local boy were onboard when the plane went down in bog land in County Offaly on Sunday afternoon. The cause of the crash remains unknown and an investigation is underway.
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