Ireland
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by Art Widak
Twenty dancers, 10 winners of the online public vote and 10 others chosen by Judges, arrive in Dublin to audition for a place in the new music & dance spectacular, Heartbeat of Home. The World Premiere takes place in Dublin on Wednesday 2nd October.
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Irish customs officers carry out a sweep of Dublin's Moore Street as the fight against illegal cigarette trading continues. Moore Street is a famous Irish street trading location that is also notorious for illegal trade in cigarettes.
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Five Euro notes has been circulating in Ireland since the 2nd May but are still new and unpopular to its residents. The banknote has been designed by the Austrian designer Robert Kalina.
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Ros Warby " Monumental" rehearsal session in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin.
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Irish Anti-War Organization protests Guantanamo outside The Irish Parliament. There are still a 166 Detainees left at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Camp Delta, Camp Iguana and the highly classified CIA Camp 7, at a cost of $240m to keep it open.
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by Art Widak
A dozen activists from the Irish Anti War Movement take part in a symbolic protest outside Leinster House in Dublin and American Embassy, calling on the closure of Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the end of US military Flights in Shannon.
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by Mark Moloney
Gerry Adams has called for the release of John Downey. The Sinn Féin member who was arrested in London, despite being told he was no longer wanted by the Northern Ireland Office, and has been charged in connection to the Hyde Park bombing of 1982.
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by Art Widak
Permanent TSB is back in the banking business with plans to approve lending of up to 9 times more this year than in 2012, as per Chairman, Alan Cook. The Group is competing again for mortgage business, car loans and current accounts.
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by Art Widak
Irish President Michael D Higgins, the honoured guest at the 2013 edition of the Young Environmentalists, handed up the Trophies to all Winners at the Young Environmentalist Awards Ceremony organised by ECO-UNESCO in Dublin's Mansion House.
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A rally was held in Dublin in response to the 67.5 billion euro bailout, and the Irish government's plans via Coilte State Forestry Company that owns 445,000 acres of prime forest, to sell off forest harvesting rights.
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by Art Widak
Hundreds of fans turned out to watch an open British and Irish Lions squad training session at Carton House ahead of their British and Irish Lions Tour 2013.
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by Art Widak
Coach Graham Rowntree answered questions from the media 10 days ahead of their first match. Only 22 of the 37-man squad are on board, for the moment, with players from Leinster, Ulster, Northampton and Leicester set to join.
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by Diego Puerta
Protest in front of Leinster House under the slogan "Our forests are not for sale" to try to raise awareness about the negative effects in nature that Fracking would suppose.
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The Woodland League organised the 'Our Forests are not for sale' rally outside Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament), to protest against the planned selling off of harvesting rights of Coillte owned forests by the Irish Government.
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by Art Widak
900 pieces, including a Bronze Age ax and spearhead, hundreds of medieval coins, went on display in Dublin following a tip-off from the British Museum to the National Museum of Ireland, ahead of being stored for research.






































































