Posted By: December 06, 2017
THIS IRISH AMERICA / December 6, 2017 / By Irish Echo Staff Home / This Irish America Tefere Gebre, a native of Ethiopia, has presented with a “World Peace Prize.” The presentation took place at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. Mr. Gebre is currently an Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO and a longtime fighter for peace and justice. […]
Posted By: December 06, 2017
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING Distributed by Irish National Caucus The DUP and the Conservatives signed a ‘confidence and supply’ arrangement in June. DUP leader Arlene Foster reportedly torpedoed the proposed Brexit border deal during a phone call with British Prime Minister Theresa May. Brian Feeney. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, December 6, 2017It was a perfect snooker on Monday. The DUP […]
Posted By: December 06, 2017
Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President AFL-CIO, and Fr. Sean Mc Manus CAPITOL HILL. Wednesday, December 6, 2017— Yesterday, a top leader of the giant Labor Movement was presented with the World Peace Prize. The event took place at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations […]
Posted By: December 04, 2017
Attitudes in Border regions returning to brutal psychology of Troubles mistrustSusan McKay. Irish Times. Dublin. Monday, December 4, 2017So a clever Channel Four report has shown that the Brit on the street can’t draw the Irish Border, some of them imagining it as a loose girdle draped about the waist of the island, rather than as the noose around its neck […]
Posted By: December 04, 2017
Senator Mark Daly has rubbished recent calls for the words to be removed from Ireland’s national anthem, Amhran na bhFiann Cormac Byrne. Irish Mirror. Dublin. Sunday, December 3, 2017 A Fianna Fail senator has branded any proposal to remove the words ‘Fianna Fail’ from the national anthem as ‘simple populism’.He said: “Over the past number of weeks, there […]