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 ).

Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.

The kingdom of Alba was too new to be said to have a customary rule of succession, but Pictish and Irish precedents favoured an adult successor descended from Kenneth MacAlpin.

" My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music ," she said in a 1997 interview.

An Irish newspaper, The Evening Herald, based in Dublin, said in February 2010 that Britannica offers a " farcically inaccurate version " of the country's history.

Styled the New Economy and Recovery Authority ( or NewERA ), Coveney said that it is an economic stimulus plan that will " reshape the Irish economy for the challenges of the 21st century ".

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.

The remaining hounds in the hands of a few families who were mainly descendants of the old Irish chieftains, were now symbols of status rather than hunters, they were said to be the last of their race.

He instead said he was Irish.

She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.

They are said to be descendants of the ancient Irish King Heremon, who, along with his brother Herber, conquered Ireland.

The Picts are often said to have practised matrilineal succession on the basis of Irish legends and a statement in Bede's history.

Although sometimes said to derive from the Irish for a joist or beam, a more likely definition is as a variant of sparth.

Tánaiste Mary Harney said no deal had been done with Sinn Féin or the IRA over the three's return to Ireland adding that the Irish government would consider any request from the Colombian authorities for their extradition.

Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorised Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish, from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

St. Patrick was said to have transformed the Welsh king Vereticus into a wolf ; Natalis supposedly cursed an illustrious Irish family whose members were each doomed to be a wolf for seven years.

Outlining possible prospects for the economy for 2008, the ESRI said output of goods and services may fall that year — which would be the Irish definition of a mild recession.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Thereafter, he devoted much time to setting up branches of Cymru Fydd ( Young Wales ), which, he said, would in time become a force like the Irish National Party.

After being defeated in a series of battles with other otherworldly beings, and then by the ancestors of the current Irish people, they were said to have withdrawn to the sídhe ( fairy mounds ), where they lived on in popular imagination as " fairies.

The Blue Lodge is said to refer to the traditional colour of regalia in Lodges derived from English or Irish Freemasonry.

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.

He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as " the handsomest young man in England ".

It is also said in Irish and northern English oral history that Ivar the Boneless, and in some accounts also Ubbe Ragnarsson, died not in the Mercian campaign, but drowned fighting the Hiberno-Norse in the Irish sea.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

There were no arrests, trials or executions connected to the plot, though an Irish woman named Margaret was found to be romantically involved with a Native American ; she was voted to be stigmatised and he was whipped.

He fell in love with an Irish woman named Elisa Alicia Lynch, whom he made his lover.

In 1890, Whitehead married Evelyn Wade, an Irish woman reared in France ; they had a daughter and two sons.

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.

The Irish banshee ( Irish Gaelic bean sí or Scottish Gaelic bean shìth, which both mean " fairy woman ") is sometimes described as a ghost.

The story is a sentimental romantic tale of a young Irish woman, Kathleen Dungannon.

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.

While leader of the LVF, he was assassinated by the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) inside the Maze Prison, where he had been sent eight months before for having threatened the life of a woman.

The cook was described as an Irish woman about 40 years of age, tall, heavy, single.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

Biróg, in Irish mythology, is a leanan sídhe or fairy woman.

In her English translation of Irish myth, Lady Augusta Gregory ( Gods and Fighting Men, 1904 ), describes Brigit as " a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble.

The word cailleach ( in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, ' old woman ') comes from the Old Irish caillech (' veiled one '), an adjectival form of Old Irish caille " veil ", an early loan from Latin pallium (' cloak ', an ecclesiastical garment worn by nuns ; displaying the expected p > c change of early loans ).

The word is found as a component in terms like the Gaelic cailleach-dhubh (' nun ') and cailleach-oidhche (' owl '), as well as the Irish cailleach feasa (' wise woman ', ' fortune-teller ') and cailleach phiseogach (' sorceress ', ' charm-worker ').

Lí Ban is an " Otherworldly woman " from Irish Mythology, best known as the sister of the sea goddess Fand, and perhaps an early sea deity herself.

In Irish Christian tradition, another Liban was a woman who was transformed into a mermaid when her country was flooded ( today the Lough Neagh lake in Northern Ireland ).

When her rival, the warrior woman Aífe ( Aoife is the Irish spelling ), threatens her territory, Cú Chulainn defeats her in battle and forces her to make peace.