Mary Mcaleese News

THE public must not turn its back on hundreds of families who are still facing a "personal crisis" in the aftermath of the floods disaster, the President of Ireland has said.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese paid a moving personal tribute to the emergency service workers and volunteers who tackled Cork's flood crisis.

THE flooding gloom which left many families in the west and midlands dreading Christmas lifted somewhat yesterday as President Mary McAleese saluted them for heroically fighting back against the odds.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese has written to the Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council, Michael Doran, expressing her support for Carlow County Councils and its workers who were involved in managing the recent flooding crisis.

A "MIGHTY" Irish missionary murdered in Kenya earlier this month was laid to rest in his beloved Co Limerick yesterday.

The President Mary McAleese is beginning a two-day tour of the areas worst affected by recent floods.

Legislation to cut the pay of the country's public sector workers has been signed by the President.

I first heard the word optics in the run up to the Belfast Agreement. It means stuff that/s not real but looks good to the punters.

My last post on Slugger, which mapped three decades of slowing growth in the US was met with the response that I must be a Keynsian.

Following the death in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital of 15-month-old Millie Martin on Friday, Barry McCarney , from Irvinestown, Co.

President Mary McAleese praised the "quiet and modest work" of Irish religious missionaries at a reception to honour Columban priest Fr Michael Sinnott, this afternoon.

Folk legend Liam Clancy was now reunited with his brothers and bandmates after a passionate life that was lived to the full, his funeral service heard today.

"The death of Father Jeremiah Roche has aroused strong emotions in his community and in his homeland, Ireland, where the newspapers have given prominence to his killing," Fr.

AN Irish priest murdered in Kenya was stripped naked and stabbed in the throat by robbers who stole his blood-stained clothes, a CD player and two mobile phones.

Speaking at the switching on of the Christmas lights at ras an Uachtarin on Tuesday President Mary McAleese dedicated the tree to all those who have been affected by the recent flooding, and to those who have been helping them out.

CONTROVERSIAL comedian Tommy Tiernan is to play eight gigs in Limerick city and county over a ten day period in January.

Christopher O'Connell, Nicole Cahill, Michael O'Connor, Jamie Murphy, Jamie Gargan, Sorcha McElchar, Adam O'Leary from Meath, and Emily Daly at the National Children of Courage Awards.

THE Aid de Comps for President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen, as well as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen, were among the large congregation at St.

PRESIDENT'S SPEECH: PRESIDENT MARY McAleese has commended Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy for his "immediate" apology following the publication of the Dublin diocesan report, which described the response by gardai to complaints against priests as inadequate in some cases.

THE Crisis Pregnancy Agency, which was set up eight years ago and has been bringing about improvements on difficult and sometimes contentious issues, has now come under the umbrella of the HSE.