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âI found the focus to rebuild my life hereâ: Irish libraries offer much more than books (opens the original)
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Semir Saleh arrived in Ireland two years ago as an asylum seeker from Eritrea, one of Africaâs poorest countries. The 44-year-old left his country when he was in his late 20s. Since declaring independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Eritrea has been ruled by a dictator, and the country has a long history of repression and mandatory military service. Shortly after arriving in Ireland, Saleh joined Gorey Library in Co Wexford. He credits the library services with giving him a sense of purpose. âPhy
U2 fans gather in Dublin city centre for âsurpriseâ appearance by the band (opens the original)
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Not since the election of the last Pope has a balcony been so watched as the one above Bewleyâs in Grafton Street. Rumours have been circulating for days that U2 will make a surprise appearance there as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations this weekend. Dublin being Dublin, it is hardly a surprise, and a sense of expectation has gathered among fans that the band will turn up. On Friday afternoon, speakers had been positioned either side of the balcony and the upstairs area was closed to c
Four Irish authors honoured with stamps celebrating their work (opens the original)
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Irelandâs literary achievement in the 21st century has been marked by the launch of four stamps by An Post. Featured on the stamps are the novels Brooklyn by Colm TóibÃn; Room by Emma Donoghue; Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern. Critically acclaimed best-sellers, all were released this century, and all, too, were adapted for film. The stamps were designed by book jacket illustrator Jack Smyth in his first stamp design commission f
Finland cut homelessness by 80 per cent with housing-first policy, Irish conference hears (opens the original)
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Finland managed to reduce homelessness by 80 per cent by giving people at risk permanent homes, a conference has been told. Forty years ago Finland had one of the highest number of homeless people in Europe for its size, with 20,000 people living on the streets out of a population of just under five million. The figure is currently at 4,500 (out of a population of 5.65 million), having fallen as low as 3,500 in 2023. Only about 30 per cent of those classified as homeless in Finland are actually
Help to buy threshold for first-time buyers unlikely to be raised in budget (opens the original)
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Hopes of raising the threshold for the Help To Buy scheme to â¬50,000 are unlikely to be realised in Budget 2027, Minister for Housing James Browne has indicated. First-time buyers can avail of tax refunds worth up to â¬30,000 when purchasing a new home or 10 per cent of the purchase price, whichever is lower. Browne wants to raise the threshold to â¬50,000, but Minister for Finance Simon Harris recently said he was not in favour of this. Harris said increasing the threshold was not a program
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