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St Patrick and the snakes
27/04/2013 - The Sound Kitchen

St Patrick and the snakes

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12/04/2013 - France

Paris councillor wants street named after Margaret Thatcher

Paris could soon have a rue Margaret Thatcher if a right-wing city councillor gets his way.

10/01/2013 - France - Europe

Aircraft-leaser Avolon orders 20 Airbus A320neo planes

Irish-based aircraft-leasing company Avolon has ordered 20 Airbus A320neo passenger jets from the Toulouse-based European company. The catalogue value of the order is 1.48 billion euros.

06/11/2012 - Ireland - Uganda

We’ll find out if Uganda aid fraud goes all the way to the top, says Irish minister

The Irish government has received assurances from the Ugandan government that it will be paid back four million euros in misappropriated aid.

01/10/2012 - France - Britain - Spain

Brittany Ferries strike ends

A 10-day strike at the Brittany Ferries company ended early Monday morning after workers accepted an agreement in a phone poll. Unions signed the deal a 3.00 am French time.

A very Irish anniversary in Paris
16/09/2012 - Culture in France

A very Irish anniversary in Paris

Here in France, nearly a thousand people put on their party hats and donned their best green outfits to celebrate the

25/08/2012 - Report: World Music Matters

Mix klezmer, Croatia, north Africa and France ... you've got Tram des Balkans

Take some klezmer, add some Croatian and Czech songs, some music from north Africa and even some Celtic fiddle playing, and you get Tram des Balkans, five French guys mixing and matching ...

21/06/2012 - France - Europe

British and French still worst at foreign languages

Only 42 per cent of teenagers in the European Union speak a foreign language well enough to hold a conversation, a study showed on Thursday.
 

10/06/2012

European press review

The debt crisis in Spain, Germany's push for a United States of Europe and Britain's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee make the front pages of Europe's papers.

03/06/2012

European press review

After last week's massacre in central Syria will the big powers change their strategy?

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