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The date of Mary McKillop’s canonisation has been announced, at the end of a week in which the Vatican also took on the crisis over abuse of children by clergy in Ireland. … Read More »
The chance of governments defaulting on their loan repayments has imperilled the Euro currency, with stock markets faltering and talk of intervention from Brussels. … Read More »
Northern Ireland endured a nasty aftertaste of its past on Monday (13.7.09), reverting to riots over Battle-of-the-Boyne Day marches. … Read More »
European Heads of Government meeting at Brussels this week (18-19.6.09) are following up and consolidating moves to tighten regulation of the financial system; they’ll be looking over an offer to be made to Ireland, to try to win back votes for a stronger EU; and they are once again adding to the universal drive to get Climate Change action going strongly, by the end of the year. … Read More »
Too many people of European background who live in other countries have no true idea of what their Old Country is like today, according to Ambassador David Daly. … Read More »
Distressing crimes, and their consequences were recorded in the month of March in Austria, Germany and Ireland.
Some one hundred thousand people have paraded through Dublin (21.2.09) in Europe’s latest manifestation of fear and protest over impacts of the world economic crisis. … Read More »