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Happy birthday to Hal Roach, the Waterford comedian who kept Irish Americans laughing for a record 26 years. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
Happy Birthday to King of the Blarney Irish comedian Hal Roach

Happy Birthday to King of the Blarney Irish comedian Hal Roach

The comedian who made millions of Irish Americans laugh holds a Guinness World Record for 26 years at Jurys Cabaret in Dublin.

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Watch a curious Irish boy hunt for an elf in Tesco’s magical new Christmas ad. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
WATCH: Irish boy goes on a hunt for an elf in Tesco’s magical new Christmas ad

WATCH: Irish boy goes on a hunt for an elf in Tesco’s magical new Christmas ad

Tesco Ireland’s new Christmas ad follows one curious boy who suspects Santa’s helpers are hiding in plain sight.

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Democrats took both chambers of Congress, but EY Ireland says not to expect a shake-up on trade and tariffs. irishcentral.com/news/politi…
US midterm election results unlikely to change trade policy

US midterm election results unlikely to change trade policy

The US midterm election results are unlikely to bring a significant change in American trade, tariffs, and foreign policy, despite Democrats securing control of both chambers of Congress, according...

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Brace yourself because Met Éireann has pinpointed the two-week window when Storm Chloe could batter Ireland. irishcentral.com/news/met-ei…
Brace yourself: Met Éireann pinpoints timeline for Storm Chloe impact

Brace yourself: Met Éireann pinpoints timeline for Storm Chloe impact

Met Éireann has pinpointed a 14-day window in November to anticipate the potential arrival of Storm Chloe.

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A heartbreaking video tribute to Ciara Mageean has all of Ireland in tears as the athlete is laid to rest. irishcentral.com/sports/vide…
Video tribute to Ciara Mageean has nation in tears as athlete is laid to rest

Video tribute to Ciara Mageean has nation in tears as athlete is laid to rest

It was a sad day in Ireland on Tuesday as athlete Ciara Mageean was laid to rest following her death at the age of 34.

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Cockneys get the credit, but Irish dockers may have invented rhyming slang, so who’s got the boat-race now? irishcentral.com/culture/coc…
Cockney rhyming slang may have been invented by Irish dockers, not Londoners

Cockney rhyming slang may have been invented by Irish dockers, not Londoners

Historians of language have long argued that Irish labourers building London’s docks, canals and railways dreamed up rhyming slang to keep their English workmates in the dark.

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A tramp singing “Molly Malone” and shillelagh-swinging droogs prove “A Clockwork Orange” is secretly full of Irish connections. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
A clockwork shamrock: The seven Irish connections in Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange" |...

A clockwork shamrock: The seven Irish connections in Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange" |...

From a tramp singing “Molly Malone” to shillelaghs swung as weapons and Orange Order bowler hats, Kubrick’s dystopia is laced with Irish echoes that most viewers never notice.

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Six hundred starving people walked 15 miles in freezing cold to beg for food in Mayo, and most never made it home. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
Horrific tale of a Mayo village's death during the Famine

Horrific tale of a Mayo village's death during the Famine

Our guide has told the same story perhaps a thousand times yet still it brought a lump to her throat. “People around here recall that in 1849 folks living in my home town of Louisborough in Co Mayo -...

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Hundreds of Irish Catholic men with no Hibernian division nearby are joining the AOH At Large program, and they’ve already launched new divisions in San Diego and Houston. irishcentral.com/culture/aoh…
AOH expands its reach through the At Large program

AOH expands its reach through the At Large program

From Alaska to Alabama, the AOH’s At Large members are building the Order’s future. Brothers who joined with no division nearby have already launched new divisions in San Diego and Houston, and a new...

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JFK got a Donegal tweed hat from Éamon de Valera that was way too big, and now it’s going to auction. irishcentral.com/news/jfks-i…
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction

JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction

A Donegal tweed fedora that President John F. Kennedy was handed during his 1963 trip to Ireland is going under the hammer in Boston.

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A suspected cyber attack hit fridges and freezers in 13 SuperValu stores and forced the frozen food to be binned. irishcentral.com/business/te…
Irish supermarkets SuperValu hit in suspected cyber attack

Irish supermarkets SuperValu hit in suspected cyber attack

SuperValu has removed frozen food from 13 shops across the country after a suspected cyber attack caused fridges and freezers to stop working.

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Colin Farrell ran the Dublin Marathon beside his friend Emma Fogarty, and the HBO film about their bond is almost here. irishcentral.com/culture/ent…
WATCH: Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty’s marathon of friendship "Slightest Touch" is coming

WATCH: Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty’s marathon of friendship "Slightest Touch" is coming

"The Slightest Touch" follows a Dublin Marathon journey, by Colin Farrell and Emma Fogarty, that began with a text message and grew into a film about love, pain and resilience.

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Australia’s working holiday visa is now a lottery and young Irish emigrants are already packing up and heading home. irishcentral.com/news/visa-i…
Visa ballot puts young Irish emigrants’ Australian dream in doubt

Visa ballot puts young Irish emigrants’ Australian dream in doubt

New caps on second and third working holiday visas are leaving thousands of young Irish emigrants weighing whether the outback grind is still worth it.

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Donal Skehan’s pumpkin and crispy pancetta risotto saves your leftover Halloween pumpkin from the bin in about an hour. irishcentral.com/culture/foo…
Donal Skehan’s pumpkin risotto is the best use for your leftover Halloween pumpkin

Donal Skehan’s pumpkin risotto is the best use for your leftover Halloween pumpkin

The Irish chef slow roasts pumpkin with garlic and sage, crisps pancetta over the top, and folds the lot through a buttery parmesan risotto.

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Irish suffragette Mary Maloney shadowed Winston Churchill for a week and rang a handbell through every speech until he gave up and walked away. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
The Irish suffragette who rang a handbell until Churchill gave up and walked off

The Irish suffragette who rang a handbell until Churchill gave up and walked off

Mary Maloney shadowed a 34 year old Winston Churchill through Dundee for a week in 1908, drowning out every speech he tried to make until he apologised for his remarks about women in politics.

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A royal charter renamed Derry in 1613 and more than 400 years later the city still cannot agree on what to call itself. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
Derry or Londonderry, the argument over the name began in 1613

Derry or Londonderry, the argument over the name began in 1613

A royal charter issued under King James renamed the city on the Foyle, but the longer version slipped out of everyday use for well over a century before the Troubles turned it into a test of identity.

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George Bernard Shaw turned down a seat in Parliament and nearly every honour going, yet became the first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. irishcentral.com/roots/histo…
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950

On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950

The Synge Street boy who left school early went on to write more than 60 plays and became the first person ever to hold both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.

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Connemara Marble has opened its Black Friday sale early with up to 50% off and free shipping over $60, with US Christmas delivery guaranteed until December 8. irishcentral.com/irish-shopp…
Connemara Marble launches Black Friday early with up to 50% off Irish gifts

Connemara Marble launches Black Friday early with up to 50% off Irish gifts

Christmas shopping starts early at Connemara Marble, with special Black Friday savings and free shipping on orders over $60.

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An IRA attack cut the power and trapped Princess Margaret inside a Laois country house for 48 hours in 1965, and Emily Hourican turned it into a novel. irishcentral.com/culture/emi…
LISTEN: Emily Hourican on Princess Margaret, the IRA and the extraordinary true story behind "A...

LISTEN: Emily Hourican on Princess Margaret, the IRA and the extraordinary true story behind "A...

Irish author tells "Natter with Kate and Michelle" how a forgotten newspaper report about a 1965 attack in County Laois became her new novel, "A House in Winter".

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Ireland’s most haunted house has a devil at the door, a dropped playing card and a ghost no exorcism has managed to shift. irishcentral.com/news/irelan…
Inside Ireland’s most haunted house: the devil, a game of cards and hotel plans

Inside Ireland’s most haunted house: the devil, a game of cards and hotel plans

With 22 bedrooms, 68 acres running to the sea, and a hole in the ceiling said to be left by the devil himself, Loftus Hall is known as Ireland’s most haunted house.

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