Irish Eye on hollywood
This year is closing with an Irish flourish at the box office. But before getting to the end-of-the year Irish roundup, let’s look ahead to one of next year’s most anticipated movies, which will introduce us to yet another talented, up-and-coming Dublin actor..
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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A tribute to courage
The Annual 5K Tunnel to Towers Run in honor of Stephen Siller and the 342 other firefighters who lost their lives on the 11th of September at the World Trade Center. The course recreates the run that Siller made from Brookyln through the Battery Tunnel to the WTC site. Florida Firefighter Dan McKay leads the pack of runners near the end of the Battery tunnel.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Window of Remembrance
As memorials to the victims of September 11 continue to emerge around the U.S., in Ireland a stained glass window was unveiled this past September in the Church of the Assumption.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Man of the Year
I’m doing what any other 27-year-old would do. But the bottom line is, I’m sweeter, I’m scarier, I’m darker, I’m brighter, I’m cleaner and I’m dirtier than anyone knows!”
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Flatley Cleared of Charges
Rape charges against Michael Flatley filed last March by Tanya Marie Robertson have been dropped. A judge in Chicago advised Robertson’s lawyer to drop the case or see it be thrown out of court.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Hepburn Letters Sold
A collection of letters written by Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn to her father and stepmother sold for £45,500...
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Bog Treasures
“Every layer they strip Seems camped on before. The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.”
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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The New Face of Business
Looking at a cross section of Irish businesses today, you would think that the Irish are the masters of invention. Whether they are companies taking symbols as traditional as the Claddagh into new and modern designs, teaching medical students surgery online, or creating new tests that could impact the spread of HIV, Ireland’s business community is diverse, savvy and capturing markets of the present and future.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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A Thatch of the Old Country
William Cahill kneeled on the partially thatched roof in upstate New York and recalled the last time he thatched the roof of an authentic Irish cottage.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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Consumers Get Their Irish Up Over 7Up Ads
Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. recently re-edited its U.S. television commercial when scores of irate Irish-Americans phoned in complaining of what sounded like a leprechaun shouting an ethnic slur.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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The USS The Sullivans Visits Beara
As part of the chain of festivals from Leitrim to Beara in the summer of 2003, a flotilla of naval ships arrived in Glengarriff, County Cork on August 29.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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An Island Paradise
Honolulu, Hawaii: As Noel Trainor strolls the lolling landscape of his subtropical dominion, it’s not hard to picture him in a cassock and biretta, making the rounds of an old Irish country parish.
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(Irish America) Dec/Jan 2004
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