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Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

Ireland's Popular Poet President

The current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is finishing his second seven-year term.  Voters will choose his successor in about three months.

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Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor from Bray, Co. Wicklow is class all the way. She can lay legitimate claim to being the best woman boxer alive.

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Rory McIlroy has to be careful

In the classic Say Nothing mode that dominates discussion of such incidents in Ireland, Rory never talks about the ancient past

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23andDoReMi

With Irish-British making up a majority of 23andMe customers, Gallagher’s Irish Celtic Corner took a look at what’s happening with all their data.

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SF Great Famine Memorial by SFGate

San Francisco seems to be on track to fund and build the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza. The location is in the northwest corner of the City and will initially be a plaza overlooking the 17th hole (par 3) of the Lincoln Park Golf Course looking out on the Golden Gate Bridge.

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See something. Say Nothing.

Dolours Price in costume as she pulls off a bank robbery with her sister Marian in the opening of Episode Two of the Hulu series Say Nothing, based in Belfast in the 197os.

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