GARDAÍ are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of woman missing from Dublin. Margaret Barber, 66, has been missing from her home in Mount Merrion since early on Thursday morning, August 8. She is described as being approximately 4' 11" in height with a medium build. Ms barber has brown shoulder-length hair and green eyes and was wearing a grey blouse and … [Read more...] about Gardaí concerned for wellbeing of missing Dublin woman
Gardaí concerned for wellbeing of missing Dublin woman
Investigation after ‘mindless’ attack on Islamic centre in Co. Down
POLICE have launched an investigation following an attack on an Islamic centre in Co. Down. Targets were sprayed on the walls and door of the Newtownards Islamic Centre on Greenwell Street in the early hours of Saturday morning. A petrol bomb was also thrown at the building but failed to ignite. Police are treating the incident as a racially-motivated hate crime, with a … [Read more...] about Investigation after ‘mindless’ attack on Islamic centre in Co. Down
Tim Walz’s Irish Great-Great-Grandparents
Were Just Like Him
By Megan Smolenyak
IA Newsletter August 10, 2024
IA Newsletter August 10, 2024
This Apple Didn’t Fall Far from the Tree
Whenever someone notable first grabs my attention, I can’t resist climbing the branches of their family tree to see — among other things — whether they might have a bit of Irish ancestry. Such was the case with Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate — as well as governor, teacher, coach, veteran, animal lover, and the … [Read more...] about Tim Walz’s Irish Great-Great-Grandparents
Were Just Like Him
St. Ailbe of Emly
By Rosemary Rogers
IA Newsletter, August 10, 2024
IA Newsletter, August 10, 2024
Patron of Wolves | Feast Day September 12th St. Ailbe, sometimes known by his anglicized name, St. Elvis, was a 6th-century saint born in County Tipperary. The name Ailbe is derived from the old Irish words Ail (rock) and beo (alive) since as a newborn, the saint was discovered alive under a rock where he had been hidden… by a wolf. Ailbe was the illegitimate offspring of a … [Read more...] about St. Ailbe of Emly
Healing Places of Ireland
By Christine Lyons
May / June 1998
New Age health spas, springing up alongside the more traditional seaweed baths, are enticing people to Ireland for healing vacations as never before. John Wayne did it. W. B. Yeats did it. Even the pagan Druids did it. They all went on healing vacations. Yesterday's movers and shakers knew then what today's vacationers are just discovering -- Ireland has the power to heal … [Read more...] about Healing Places of Ireland