While working on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in the United States, I was part of a delegation of Native Americans to a Bilingual Education conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Native Americans across the continent were going through a period […]
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The old Dublin Cattle Market, the biggest in the city and one of the largest on these islands, was situated off the North Circular Road on Prussia Street for 90 years. Cattle ‘marts’ as they are known today had not […]
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The end of February saw the release of a great little book by George Fitzgerald on E books. The Ticking Clock is about a man called Mark, a very handsome and rich character who is prone to having affairs with […]
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Most Friday nights when the lights come on and fans start pouring into the stadium here at the Railway Union Rugby Football Club in Sandymount, John Ryan a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at UCD, Associate Clinical Professor at St Vincent’s […]
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John D. Sheridan’s classic 1945 novel ‘Paradise Alley’ has been published in a new edition. East Wall based publisher, the Seven Towers Agency has re-issued the classic story of poverty and politics in a Docklands slum in the early 20th […]
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Most of you will have read Tracy O’Brien’s brilliant article on Robert Hanley, Tom McManamon and Patrick Cumiskey in the last issue, the lads who hightailed it to Haiti to help build houses for those affected by the horrendous earthquake […]
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Thinking how to entertain the kids this Easter? Here at NewsFour we have been looking around to see what is available in the area. If you are looking for archery, rock climbing, rugby or tennis, or perhaps your little darlings […]
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EUROPEAN SENSORIA BAND (E+S=B for short) are a well known local band from Ringsend who were formed between 2002 and 2003 after a few improvising sessions between Fergus Cullen (clarinet and lead guitar), Anthony Carroll (Bass) and David Carroll (drums). […]
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Since I’m at the end of my wonderful time here at the NewsFour office I thought it would be an appropriate time to say goodbye and farewell and take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone who […]
Read more →A few months in and it is easy to feel that the novelty of the New Year has worn thin…even if our bodies haven’t. It is a time of year when maybe the resolutions we made for January are starting […]
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