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Metro Éireann : 06.06.04

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The real problem with Muslim dress

00:00 | 04.09.08

I have a dilemma. As a child, I never met a Muslim. When I saw pictures of women adhering to hijab – the Islamic code of ‘modest dress’, and also the name of the headscarf often worn by Muslim women – I assumed that

Back to school for another year

00:00 | 04.09.08

For the last number of weeks, you may have noticed grown men and women acting strangely around department stores and in major retail areas of towns up and down the country, shielding their eyes and crossing roads in order to avoid the inevitable but horrible ‘Back

Republican politics, American style

00:00 | 04.09.08

After a month of attacks by his Republican opponent John McCain, which had succeeded in narrowing his lead in national polls, Barack Obama chose last Thursday night, 28 August, to finally respond to them.

A break at the border

00:00 | 04.09.08

Travellers opting to bus their way across the 400 miles from Bangkok to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh leave themselves open to a range of scams and rip-offs, but this was a fact I didn’t come across until I was already onboard.

Donâ€™t extinguish the lightning

00:00 | 04.09.08

In Hebrew, my mother tongue, the word ‘barack’ means lightning. I know that lightning comes before the thunder, before the storm.

The challenge of competition

00:00 | 04.09.08

The suddenness of the economic downturn has taken many by surprise, and is throwing up all sorts of challenges to inherited thinking from the years of the boom decade in Ireland, particularly in regard to immigration.

â€˜I MISS MY LITTLE STARâ€™

00:00 | 28.08.08

A DUBLIN-BASED Moldovan dad has been left devastated after his Irish son, who he had raised almost singlehandedly for over four years, was removed from a Dublin primary school and taken to Moldova by his mother.

Asylum seekersâ€™ housing body rejects â€˜desperate conditionsâ€™ claim

00:00 | 28.08.08

Accommodation is so cramped, there is no room for babies to learn to crawl or toddlers to learn to walk’

â€˜Exploitedâ€™ migrant highlights pitfalls of casual employment

00:00 | 28.08.08

THE HAZARDS surrounding the conditions of employment for casual workers have been highlighted this week by Koonjbeharry Diwakarsingh, a Mauritian student working in Dublin.

Migrants face â€˜cash crunchâ€™ over Govt services - MRCI

00:00 | 28.08.08

MIGRANTS are being squeezed for revenue in order to bolster State coffers, a migrant rights group has said.

Call for entries to this yearâ€™s MAMA Awards

00:00 | 28.08.08

THE DRIVE for entries to the 2008 Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA) gets underway in September.

Dublin tango fest is in full swing

00:00 | 28.08.08

Dance lovers across Ireland and the world are expected to flock to the Sixth International Tango Festival in Dublin.

Blazing a trail for Irish theatre

00:00 | 28.08.08

In the latest instalment of Metro Éireann’s MEET THE BOSS, SANDY HAZEL speaks to Joe Devlin, director of the Dublin-based non-profit Focus Theatre.

The hippopotamus and the river birds

00:00 | 28.08.08

Once upon a time, there was a gathering of children in a remote village telling stories with the eldest man of the kindred.

Polish clinch silver in nail-biter

00:00 | 28.08.08

AN IRISH–POLISH family day was the friendly prelude to a hard-fought clash between the two nation’s basketball teams at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght last weekend.

Controversy over so-called school â€˜segregationâ€™

00:00 | 28.08.08

Priya Rajsekar on how the controversy over so-called school ‘segregation’ missed the point entirely...

Trade links and basketball discussed at Beijing meeting

00:00 | 28.08.08

CHINA HAS raised the standard of Olympic-hosting to a very high level, the Lithuanian prime minister told his Chinese counterpart last Saturday.

The traditional Celtic language that no longer has a place in modern France

00:00 | 28.08.08

Our Irish language columnist Gearóid Ó Colmáin on the case of Breton - the traditional Celtic language that no longer has a place in modern France

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