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...rural pockets of the country and weighed down by associations with poverty or sectarian extremism. Today, between 5 and 10% of the 4.2 million people living in Ireland speak Irish on a daily basis, and many of those are students who only speak it in school. Máire Nic Ghiolla Phádraig, senior lecturer of sociology at University College Dublin, witnessed the impact of the rise in gaelscoileanna on her university campus with more and more gaelgóirs, or Irish speakers, arriving each year. "I have seen the change during Fresher's week," Nic Ghiolla...
...Years of EU infrastructural and educational support and a young and cheap labor force made Ireland a fertile ground for foreign investment in the domestic IT sector, among other industries, and the result has seen the average annual family income double to $93,000 in the past 10 years. Nic Ghiolla Phádraig says this new prosperity brought a sense of pride and self-assurance that prompted a rediscovery in Ireland's "cultural assets" - Irish being one of them...
...have any regrets about coming to America? Franc Hong, Pittsburgh, Pa. No. I've learned so much from Hollywood. I've made a lot of good friends. Also, it's been great to work with such superstars as John Travolta, Nic Cage and Tom Cruise...
...clear, though, that !!! isn’t just a band that knows how to rock—they’re also a band that knows how to raise the dead. Necromancy isn’t really popular subject matter in the music video world, but lead singer Nic Offer produces the exception that proves the rule when the song’s pulsating beat leaves even the roadkill singing along. The fun, however confusing and uncomfortable, doesn’t end there. The boys catch a ride in a phantom Fiat (because what could be more bizarre than...
...fact that Northern Rock has never really been in serious danger of going bust throughout this crisis scarcely mattered amid the clamor to withdraw funds. "When people hear the words 'emergency' and 'bail out,' then concerns outweigh those statements saying 'the bank's solvent,' " says Nic Clarke, a banking analyst at Charles Stanley in London. "It doesn't really matter if the rationale is right or wrong - they're voting with their feet...