This weekend, two top-ten women's college basketball teams - the USC Trojans and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish - face off in Los Angeles. It will be a battle between two of the league's biggest stars, USC's Juju Watkins and Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo. Another player to watch coming...
Northern Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap are accused of endorsing banned terrorist groups, after a video from a gig last year appeared to show a member shouting "Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!" Then, another clip, this one from November 2023, emerged, showing one of the group allegedly ...
The steaks are good too – and all Irish. The vegetables are grand, although some of the fruit does have a tendency to go mouldy before it gets eaten in our house. I am not sure who is to blame for that – us or Lidl. I am also fond of the 99 cent or...
The choices of tipple and the places for consumption may be ever-changing but alcohol still plays a central role in Ireland’s life and culture, even for those who choose abstinence or moderation. We spoke to a number of Irish people about how they drink now, and to ...
(billie for her maternal grandfather, william, who died a few months before she was born; eilish, the name of an irish conjoined twin whom her parents discovered in a television documentary; pirate, which her older brother, finneas o’connell, began calling her before she was born; followed...
Take the Irish accent for one. Wow! But the point is: I love this language.I’m like a “sponge”. I want to sound as perfect as possible, but I know don’t get even close to the ideal pronunciation. But I don’t give up. I will continue reading aloud and correcting my pronunci...
At the same time,we should avoid bad friends,because they always do harm to us and moreover,they are dangerous to the people around.What is even worse,they mar our friendship with good friends.Indeed,seeking acquaintance with bad friends would be a serious mistake. ...
Osborne was in a desperate condition, and almost mad with grief, sent off the good-natured Irishwoman straight to see if she could console her young favourite. "I've cares of my own enough," Mrs. O'Dowd said, gravely, "and I thought poor Amelia would be little wanting for company ...
At the bottom of the tower, they prepared to go their separate ways. But then the Americans mentioned that Tino, who was a musician, was performing a gig in an Irish pub the next day. “You should come,” the three guys said to Anita. “Bring your friends.” ...
He told CNN the loss of the stars didn’t impact sales and wasn’t the only reason he chose to close the restaurant. However, areportfrom the Irish Times in 2016 said there was a sharp decline in the restaurant’s profits when it lost its stars, citing records the news outlet received...