Word: irishness
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...after which InBev became AB InBev. But that move also saddled the company with huge debts that it is still struggling to pay off. Last year, it sold its entertainment business, including six SeaWorld parks and two Busch Gardens parks in the U.S. It has also shed its Irish and Scottish businesses and its Central European operations. (See a TIME video on the beer-biking craze in Amsterdam...
...Irish native is preparing for yet another long distance move: “I just put on some good music and get cracking on the packing,” she said...
...political progress grind to a halt. Such an outcome would also be a disaster for Peter Robinson, who for almost 30 years has carefully steered the DUP away from the firebrand populism of its founder, the Rev. Ian Paisley, to its current position at the top of Northern Irish politics. If he fails to clear his name over the next six weeks, it could mean the end not only for a politician and a prominent political family, but also for the entire Northern Ireland political system...
Four Roman Catholic bishops resigned in December after being named in a report that allegedly documents the Dublin archdiocese's practice of safeguarding priests--at least 170 of them from 1975 to 2004--accused of sexually abusing children. The report, issued by the Irish government in November, also alleges that Irish police repeatedly failed to investigate claims of abuse and conspired to protect Catholic clergy...
...terse, fragmented, elliptical dialogue; his rogue's gallery of hustlers, con men and losers; his twisty, shaggy-dog plots; his cynical take on the American dream--Mamet's style and themes have seeped into nearly every pore of American theater. (Non-American theater too: Martin McDonagh, whose Irish black comedies are clear descendants of Mamet's work, has called American Buffalo his favorite play...