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Irish ministers make case for Cork to host Euros game after Belfast venue axed

September 17, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

The Irish government is pressing the case for Cork to host a Euro 2028 game originally earmarked for Belfast.

Deputy premier and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said Gaelic games venue Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork was being “seriously looked at” as a potential alternative venue.

Mr Martin’s party colleague, minister of state Thomas Byrne, has contacted the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to ask that both Pairc Ui Chaoimh and the Gaelic Athletic Association’s flagship stadium at Croke Park in Dublin are put “into the mix” when it comes to reallocating the ill-fated Belfast games.

The move comes after the UK government announced on Friday that it would not be providing funding to rebuild Casement Park in Belfast in time for the Euros.

The derelict west Belfast GAA ground had…


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Mayo to host world’s first arts festival dedicated to the Irish Wake

May 4, 2024 Dedicated Hosting News 0

The world’s first arts festival dedicated to the ancient arts and rites of the Irish Wake will take place in Mayo later this month.

The groundbreaking Keening Festival will be the world’s first arts festival dedicated to the ancient arts of the Irish Wake and will take place on Saturday, May 18 in Mulranny in the Old Convent.

The Keening Festival offers an extraordinary programme of free walks, keening workshops, talks about the origin of the wake and its rites and an evening concert with world acclaimed Sean Nós singer Caitriona Ní Cheannabháin, BAFTA winner and bardic poet Kevin Toolis and violinist Lisa Fuk’u’da.

The internationally famous composer Peter Reynolds has also written original songs for a unique outdoor musical performance programmed for…


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Dublin will host a society dedicated to Irish novelist George Russell

November 1, 2023 Dedicated Hosting News 0

The United Arts Club, located on Upper Fitzwilliam Street, is the venue for the event. The poet, writer, artist, and philosopher assisted in founding the club in 1907.

AE Russell, as he was also called, was a highly esteemed and renowned figure worldwide, and was considered a giant of Irish public life.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Dublin, he was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 1867.

When he passed away in England in 1935, Taoiseach Eamon De Valera and WB Yeats led his funeral procession, and he was given special treatment with an aerial flypast as his coffin was transported back to Ireland via Dún Laoghaire.

A bust of Russell may be found in Dublin’s Merrion Square, and a perfect duplicate can be found in the former Lurgan Town Hall.

For several years, an annual festival…


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Crocs on the catwalk at Irish designer Simone Rocha’s fashion show

September 17, 2023 Web Shared Hosting News 0

Simone Rocha has become the latest high-profile fashion designer to partner with divisive footwear brand Crocs.

The Irish designer unveiled a range of Crocs at her spring/summer catwalk show at London Fashion Week, held at the home of the English National Ballet on the Leamouth Peninsula.

Following in the footsteps of Spanish label Balenciaga and Scottish designer Christopher Kane, Dublin-born Rocha upgraded the traditional backless clog by adding chunky pearls and crystals.

Sporty lace-up styles in black and pink were decorated with silver and floral embellishments.

Fresh footwear aside, Rocha – who graduated from esteemed Central Saint Martins college in 2010 – returned to two familiar themes for SS24: bows and bouquets.

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Ukrainian family living in remote Irish village ‘desperate’ to find lost turtle

August 22, 2023 Web Shared Hosting News 0

A Ukrainian couple living in a remote Irish village are seeking help to find their lost turtle. 

According to a post shared to the Bonmahon Tidy Towns Facebook page, the family recently moved to Bonmahon, Co Waterford after fleeing the war in Ukraine and lost their pet almost a week ago on August 16. 

The turtle, which is believed to have escaped through a window, has reportedly lived with the couple for 30 years. 

They are reportedly “desperate” to get him back. 

The post stated, “My parents moved recently to Bonmahon and yesterday they lost their turtle. Actually he just run away through the window.

“It’s [a] family pet, lived with us for 30 years, parents took all their animals with them fleeing the war from Ukraine. Maybe someone around…


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