On Achill Island in Ireland, Cian hopes to spend the summer playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather thinks it’s about time to pass down a family tradition.
Tag: Ireland
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Dublin Violence Brings Shame on Ireland, Prime Minister Varadkar Says
Officials have condemned violence that broke out in the capital after a knife attack. The police said 34 people were arrested and a police officer was seriously injured.
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CMAT Makes Country Music Sad, Smart and Strange
The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd.
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Yeats and Beckett, Guarding the Irish Coast From Drug Runners
The Irish Navy’s small fleet of warships may be named for celebrated poets and playwrights, but its mission is anything but whimsical, as a record seizure of cocaine from a cargo ship showed.