Dublin is also the headquarters of important national newspapers such as The Irish Times and Irish Independent, as well as local newspapers such as The Evening Herald.

In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy Irish entertainers with an estimated fortune of € 109 million ( i. e., £ 75 million or US $ 165 million ), and number 95 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.

* Special 90th Anniversary supplement from The Irish Times

The debate which has been monitored by the Irish Times in its Renewing the Republic opinion pieces, has largely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament.

The Irish Times supplement described front bench member Leo Varadkar TD as having explicitly centre-right views.

Fianna Fáil's success was credited by The Irish Times to its local structure.

The Irish Times estimated that half of its 3, 000 cumainn are effectively moribund.

* " The Origins of the Clairsach or Irish Harp ", Musical Times, Vol.

Robinson also received the backing of the Irish Times newspaper, and this proved hugely advantageous.

'" The Irish Times wrote that The Picture of Dorian Gray was " first published to some scandal.

The Irish Times reported that " This is a very impressive collection that is carried along with a stirring sense of velocity and momentum ".

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The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; ;

In June 2009 the British media reported that Argentina were lobbying for the 2013 British and Irish Lions Tour to Australia to incorporate a series of games in Argentina.

After Áed's death there is a two decade gap until the death of Donald II ( Domnall mac Constantín ) in 900 during which nothing is reported in the Irish annals.

In 2006 the Irish Hockey Association reported that the gender split among its players was approximately 65 % female and 35 % male.

Irish Americans number over 45 million, making them the second largest reported ethnic group in the country, after German Americans.

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

In addition to citizens of Schengen Area countries being refused entry, it has been reported that several Irish citizens have been turned away, despite Ireland not being a member of the Schengen agreement.

Although it is reported that his uncle Dominic was a one-time IRA chief of staff, J. Bowyer Bell states in his book, The Secret Army: The IRA 1916 ( Irish Academy Press ), that Dominic Adams was a senior figure in the IRA of the mid-1940s.

A story from The Irish Times ( September 23, 1977 ) reported a potentially violent incident involving several men, that was averted by a woman exposing her genitals to the attackers.

In December 2008, a number of Irish news sources reported testing had revealed " extremely high " levels of dioxins, by toxic equivalent, in pork products, ranging from 80 to 200 times the EU's upper safe limit of 1. 5 pg WHO-TEQ < sub > DFP </ sub >/ μg i. e. 0. 12 to 0. 3 parts per billion.

Oliver Cromwell is reported to have said of Richard Boyle ' If there had been an Earl of Cork in every province it would have been impossible for the Irish to have raised a rebellion.

In fact this is not implausible because other descendants of Magnus are reported in Irish sources and he is known to have been particularly fond of at least one Irish woman.

In the last quarter of the 7th century, a number of battles in Ireland, largely in areas along the Irish Sea coast, are reported where Britons take part.

The siege and capture are reported by Welsh and Irish sources, and the Annals of Ulster say that in 871, after overwintering on the Clyde:

It includes people who reported “ White ” or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.

In response to the census question concerning ancestry, 16. 7 % reported English ancestry ; 15. 0 %, German ; 11. 6 %, Irish ; 5. 7 %, United States or American ; 5. 4 %, French ; and 5. 0 %, Norwegian.

The most common first ancestries reported in Wayne County were 32. 9 % American, 15. 0 % German, 11. 9 % English, 11. 7 % Irish, 3. 0 % French ( excluding Basque ), 2. 0 % Dutch and 2. 0 % Italian, according to Census 2000.

Among the major ancestries reported in Warren County were 41. 4 % German, 13. 8 % American, 10. 2 % Irish and 7. 0 % English ancestry according to Census 2000.

Among the major first ancestries reported in Taney County were 20. 8 % German, 18. 9 % American, 12. 4 % Irish, and 12. 3 % English, according to Census 2000.

Among the major first ancestries reported in Stone County were 24. 3 % American, 20. 4 % German, 11. 3 % English, and 10. 8 % Irish, according to Census 2000.

Among the major first ancestries reported in Shannon County were 38. 3 % American, 13. 4 % Irish, 11. 8 % German, and 9. 7 % English, according to Census 2000.

The major first ancestries reported in Ripley County were 34. 1 % American, 14. 0 % Irish, 11. 6 % German and 10. 7 % English, according to Census 2000.

Among the major first ancestries reported in Reynolds County were 37. 6 % American, 12. 1 % Irish, 11. 6 % German, and 11. 4 % English, according to Census 2000.

* Donnelly, James S. Irish Agrarian Rebellion, 1760-1800 ( 2006 )

The locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment was formed, later becoming home service battalions in the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992, before being disbanded in 2006.

Forty percent of Irish homes received cable television in September 2006.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4, 354, 155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14 % of the nation's total population.

" The Irish Diaspora ", Irish Economic and Social History ( 2006 ): 33: 35-58

In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21, a plan envisaging the investment of € 34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015.

His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).