A likely story! We left Ireland when I was eleven and a half –settled in San Francisco, because my father said there as "too much for too few and too little for too many," in Ireland. That was a generation ago, when Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Europe. I...
opinion by Maireid Sullivan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 583 views | 22 recommendations | 2 comments
I give here my opinion about the Mediterranean 43 nations gathering under the auspices of President Sarkozy. In Israel there is no great enthusiasm when seeing the receptions at the Champ Elysee. The...
created by korzac | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 455 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
Australia's federal government says it will set up new centres, and provide more resources, to the immigration department to speed up processing of 457, or skilled migrant, visas.Our reporter Naomi Woodley reports the Federal Government is accepting most of the...
created by gemini | 4 years ago 133 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Closing her eyes and arching her neck backwards, the young Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade brings her palms to her collar bone and begins to beat out a rhythm from her home islands off the West Coast of...
"India has introduced a new measure where women who have not completed high school would be allowed to work in foreign countries only if they are above 30, in order to ensure their safety.
This rule applies to all women in the Emigration Clearance Required (ECR) category...
UPDATE: Check out this great photoset of the healthcare protests. Forget Sicko: health care practitioners (doctors and nurses, mainly) in Poland are facing down a health care crisis that has been intensifying...
created by Kaitlin | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 3154 views | 17 recommendations | 4 comments
Antony Gormley's installation 'Another Place' is currently on a beach just outside Liverpool. It consists of 100 cast-iron figures based on the artists' own body, and they cover a 3 kilometre area, each gazing out to sea. They are due to be moved...
created by Janet 7 | 6 years ago 359 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
More and more people are thinking of leaving America behind for a simple life elsewhere in the world. See where they are looking and what they are finding with the America Outbound custom search engine.
created by housewow | 6 years ago 498 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Everybody's going to be watching, so you may also want to get a copy of your naturalization papers or birth certificate blown up big enough to put on one of those protest signs. It needs to be perfectly clear that pro-immigrant marchers aren't all undocumented."...
created by Haecus | 6 years ago 1690 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments