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IRELAND

Caty Cleary of the trad band Filidh at the Maritime Museum to mark that TradFest is becoming a Dublin-wide Festival with the addition of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• A serving garda was arrested as part of an investigation into how a large quantity of drugs went missing from a locker in a Garda station.
• A child living in State care was reported missing 274 times in just one year, new figures obtained by The Journal Investigates revealed.
• A man was charged with the murder of his mother and the assault causing harm of his father in a suburb of Cork on Monday.
• Forecasters issued a Status Yellow weather warning for counties Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo from midnight tonight to midday tomorrow.
• Pundit and broadcaster Ivan Yates told the Oireachtas media committee he had “some regrets” about comments he made during the presidential campaign. 
• Ireland is getting its first cross-border college with a partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT).
• The UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful.
• The transport committee heard that eight thousand workers will be needed to build the MetroLink.

INTERNATIONAL

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman listens to President Donald Trump speak during the Saudi Investment Forum Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UKRAINE: A Russian attack on the west of Ukraine killed 25 people, including three children, overnight. 

#UK: A Russian spy ship escorted out of Irish waters last year was at the centre of an incident in which the British Government claims it directed lasers at a British military aircraft. 

#USA: Donald Trump continued to grapple with criticism from his MAGA base, which has been led by one of his most outspoken supporters, Marjorie Tayler Greene.

#UK: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage denied claims he made racist and antisemitic comments while at school.

PARTING SHOT

EMIGRATION HAS LONG been an integral part of Irish social and economic life.

In the face of worrying anti-immigrant campaigns, it is timely that we consider what our own history of emigration can tell us about the lives of immigrants.

A large body of Irish-language writings starkly reminds us of the self-evident but often overlooked fact that Irish emigrants, as soon as they arrived in any host country, immediately attained the status of immigrants.

Their stories, as relayed in autobiography and fiction, poetry and song, serve as personal testimonies that could inform our understanding of immigration in Ireland and lead to greater tolerance and empathy.

Continue reading Máirín Nic Eoin’s Voices article here.