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Metro Éireann : 09.07.09

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Sectarianism hits indians - Marching season tensions affect Belfastâ€™s Indians

12:17 | 09.07.09

TENSIONS over Protest-ant Orange marches in Belfast have claimed some unlikely victims – the city’s Indians.

New ads to encourage reporting of hate crimes

12:16 | 09.07.09

An advertising campaign aimed at encouraging the reporting and awareness of hate crimes and incidents was launched last week by the PSNI.The move comes amid news that over 60 Romanians subjected to racist intimidation in Belfast had left for home.

Understanding makes a world of difference

12:15 | 09.07.09

A range of stereotypes surround the Roma. EMILIA MARCHELEWSKA talks to community members in Ireland about an ethnic group that some love to hate

My view on Irelandâ€™s melting pot

12:15 | 09.07.09

Katrin Schmidt was blown away by her experiences in multicultural Ireland

The Fourth of July in a whole new light

12:14 | 09.07.09

A visit to a Carlow cemetery gave Charlie Johnson a new insight on America’s Independence Day

More than laughs as comedian meets minister over Irish

12:14 | 09.07.09

NEW YORK-born comedian Des Bishop has met the Education Minister to discuss ways of promoting Irish.Bishop, who emigrated to Ireland as a teenager and whose award-winning documentary In the Name of the Fada was based on his year learning Irish in the Connemara

German, Irish business leaders come together to combat credit crunch

12:13 | 09.07.09

With the credit crisis reaching every corner of the world, it has become increasingly important for countries to build long-lasting business relationships beyond their borders to revive their economies.

Irelandâ€™s Filipino embassy is set for business - almost

12:13 | 09.07.09

AT LONG last, Ireland’s sizeable Filipino population has its own embassy. But the mission still needs a permanent office.

Naughten blasts marriage rules

12:12 | 09.07.09

EU citizens and their non-European partners now have far greater rights to reside in Ireland than Irish people and their non-EU spouses, according to Fine Gael’s immigration spokesperson.

Our Irish columnist GearÃ³id Ã“ ColmÃ¡in on his suspicions about the motives of the mainstream media in reporting on Iranâ€™s disputed elections

12:12 | 09.07.09

Recently I made reference to the conflicting opinions circulating throughout more progressive media outlets regarding the Iranian election results. While the mainstream was predictably unanimous in its accusations of fraud, independent sources were asking deeper

Coup dâ€™Ã©tat sa HondÃºras: tÃ¡ faisisteachas na StÃ¡t Aontaithe beo beathaÃoch

12:11 | 09.07.09

Cé go bhfuil sé follasach go bhfuil coup d’état militeach, fasisteach, tradisiúnta i gceist i Hondúras, diúltaíonn Washington an focail ‘coup’ a rá. Ní chuireann sé sin aon

Respect is due

12:10 | 09.07.09

The time has come for our leaders to stop dodging the blame for the country’s woes and start respecting the Irish people’s sovereignty, argues Con Pendred

\'Mauritian food is something else\'

12:10 | 09.07.09

Katrin Schmidt meets Peter Audit of Dodo, a new Mauritian and Indian restaurant in Dublin that - despite the ongoing recession - is no endangered species

Charles Laffiteau\'s Bigger Picture

12:09 | 09.07.09

I believe that inherent in all of us, there is a basic sense of right and wrong. Granted, there may be a few exceptions, such as sociopaths and psychopaths who are seemingly devoid of any sense of guilt for their actions, but for the most part we know

Phnom Penhâ€™s dumping ground

12:09 | 09.07.09

I had one day left in Cambodia before I flew on to Australia to try my hand at being an immigrant, and Stueng Meanchey was the last place on my list of places to visit. My motodup-driving friend Narun was confused and alarmed by this, because Stueng Meanchey

Poland pulls back on plans for police retirement reform

12:08 | 09.07.09

Poland’s Interior Min-istry is partially withdrawing from its earlier planned radical reform of the retirement scheme for police officers.Currently 100,000 police officers are entitled to retire after just 15 years of work. In 2007, every fifth police

Tekstmessage

12:08 | 09.07.09

As a youngster in Poland, I used to associate June with the signs that read ‘Entering the forest is forbidden’. The woods were very dry, you see, and the risk of forest fires was too great to take any chances. We got used to these times of drought

Apricot Jam

12:07 | 09.07.09

For the people of Beit-Jala in Palestine, the apricot is a fruit of longing. According to food writer Christiane Dabdoub Nasser, it is the fruit that most emigrants from this part of the West Bank miss most about their region.

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