Peadar Kearney, an IRB member and the author of many popular political songs and verses, produced the text of ‘The Soldier’s Song’, working in collaboration with Patrick Heeney, who was mainly responsible for the melody. The original text was in…
VfL Wolfsburg – Real Madrid The VfL Wolfsburg recently made more headlines beside the pitch rather than on it, after Max Kruse was publicly criticized for his extravagant lifestyle and Nicklas Bendtner was suspended from the club. They form has…
Positive employment numbers here contrast with lacklustre data for euro area as a whole. Ireland’s jobless rate hit a new eight-year low of 8.6 per cent last month as conditions in the wider economy continue to improve. However, the…
Two men from Skegness, Lincolnshire, who took photographs of themselves stealing thousands of pounds from gambling machines, have been sentenced by a judge at Bradford Crown Court. Benjamin Robinson, 30, was jailed for 32 months, while Daniel Hutchinson was given…
In these five lucky places, the sun can shine more than 90% of the time. Ranked by the World Meteorological Organization, the sunniest places on Earth are concentrated heavily in the southwestern United States, northern and western Australia, South Africa, northern…
From early times to the end of the 19th Century Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem. From antiquity to its decline in the early nineteenth century the harp was at the social…
FC Barcelona – Atletico Madrid: Only barely winning over PSV Eindhoven in the previous game of The Champions League in the penalty shootout, Atletico lost the following game against Gijon only to score an easy 5:1 victory over Betis Sevilla…
According to Eurostat, these are Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. You don’t want to go there if you have a salary from your own country. All Scandinavian countries are in the top ten. These stats were published by Finnish Central Statistical…
The Sunday Times published the article in which they claimed that London-based private doctor Mark Bonar prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to over 150 British athletes including footballers. Arsenal said they were “extremely disappointed” by the publication of the claims,…