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Views from the Emerald Isle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Originally scheduled already for July 11th, a brief official visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) to Dublin took place yesterday. In contrast to a state visit, where Sarkozy would come as the French head of state and then be primarily the guest of our President Mary McAleese, this was a short working visit, a political fact-finding mission of the current EU President in the aftermath of...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen were among those to congratulate golfer Pádraig Harrington last night on retaining the British Open title.
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The Irish government heralded Padraig Harrington as the country's greatest golfer ever after his second straight British Open triumph Sunday. President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Brian Cowen both phoned to congratulate Harrington after he overcame a wrist injury and gusting, wet conditions to become the first Irishman to win two British Opens. "The whole country is hugely proud of Padraig's success...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
PEOPLE NORTH and South "have begun to lose their awful, deep-seated mistrust to a growing neighbourliness that augurs well for the future," President Mary McAleese told guests at an Áras an Uachtaráin garden party marking the Twelfth of July.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese laid a wreath at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham yesterday as part of the National Day of Commemoration ceremony held annually in honour of Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
CRIMINAL LAW attracts the attention of the public and the legislator more than any other area of law, President Mary McAleese told a conference on criminal law yesterday. She was opening the 22nd conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law in Dublin.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese led the tributes to Fianna Fáil TD and former minister Séamus Brennan, who died in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
TRIBUTES: PRESIDENT MARY McAleese led the tributes to Fianna Fáil TD and former minister Séamus Brennan, who died in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
President Mary McAleese has acknowledged the role of the United States in the economic “transformation of Ireland” and she said both countries have remarkable resources available to face the tougher economic climate ahead.
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Belfast Telegraph | National | Brea (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
President Mary McAleese has met with blood donors and recipients at Aras an Uachtar€in to mark World Blood Donor Day.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Blood donors from across Ireland were welcomed by President Mary McAleese at a special reception in Dublin today.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
By David Young Independent.ie Wednesday June 11 2008 President Mary McAleese ran the gauntlet of a crowd of loyalists shouting sectarian abuse yesterday as she visited a primary school in the North . Protesters swore and jeered at the President and her husband Dr Martin McAleese as they arrived at Millburn Primary in Coleraine. Carrying placards and waving Union flags, some of the 50 strong group of...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese successfully visited a primary school in Co Derry despite a loyalist protest and an alleged campaign of intimidation.
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United Irelander (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
I was disgusted to hear that a group of loyalists heckled President Mary McAleese whilst she was on a visit to a primary school in Derry. The President was stopping by Millburn Primary School in Coleraine, and was greeted by a crowd of 30 or so people who held banners and shouted slogans, including 'No surrender', as she and her husband Martin arrived by car. According to news reports some of the abuse...
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has been on another incursion into Northern Ireland. As you know she loves this part of the UK so very much that she keeps visiting schools here - almost as if she thinks she has a constitutional role, which of course she does not. Sweet Mary has been heckled during an "official" visit to a school in County Londonderry. She went ahead to visit...
