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...Lonergan’s Bar, in Cashel, Ireland, my mother looked at me apprehensively as she raised a half-pint of ruby black stout...
...bothers Hill that politics is still expected to be central to drama that comes out of Northern Ireland. "All we've ever wanted to do in the North was tell our own story in our own way," he says. "But it's not sexy enough to be having struggles in your life that weren't political." Campion has his own beefs about the way Ireland is portrayed onscreen. "You like to think if people are doing a project they have a responsibility to be accurate," he says. "It isn't a huge amount to ask." Stones in His Pockets...
...George Pachikov, a well-known Russian tech pioneer, has moved the headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...
...Foot-and-Mouth Plague Spreads The outbreak of foot and mouth disease showed up last week on farms in the Netherlands and Ireland, while a second case was identified in France. When veterinarians identified the disease in cows and goats at two farms near the eastern town of Olst, Dutch agriculture authorities ordered the slaughter of 20,000 animals within a 1-km radius. The source of infection was traced to cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified...
...Claire Power, 24, a native of Ireland and former stagiaire in Brussels, is currently looking for work, but salary seems the last thing on her mind. "I think I can do lots of things and do them well," she says. "But what's important to me is having financial independence from my parents and a good lifestyle - which simply means being able to go out and enjoy myself and be with my friends." Adriano Rossi, an Italian who works as a banker in London, says that many friends who left Italy to pursue international careers eventually want to move back...