While he is best known for his Riverdance composition, Whelan has been involved in many ground-breaking projects in Ireland since the 1970s.

Professor Kevin Whelan has comprehensively traced the emergence of the modern Catholic-Nationalist identity that formed in 1760-1830.

The Cathedral has been painted by London Irish artist Brian Whelan.

The slander case has been used as the subject of a play, The Herbal Bed, by Peter Whelan.

The medal has on occasion been awarded to multiple people at a time ; in 1938 it was won by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton " for their discovery that nuclei could be disintegrated by artificially produced bombarding particles ", in 1981 by Peter Higgs and Tom Kibble " for their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory ", in 1982 by Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine " for their elucidation of the magnetic properties of the ocean floors which subsequently led to the plate tectonic hypothesis " and in 1988 by Archibald Howie and M. J. Whelan " for their contributions to the theory of electron diffraction and microscopy, and its application to the study of lattice defects in crystals ".

Michael Whelan has received the most awards, with 13 wins out of 24 nominations.

Whelan has since been ousted as part of the March 2007 revamp to make way for The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show as 2fm engaged in a spot of poaching for once in persuading Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent to leave FM104.

Published children's books she has illustrated include: Bringing the Farmhouse Home ( by Gloria Whelan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992 ); Miss Tizzy ( by Libba Moore Gray, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993 ); The Statue of Liberty ( by Lucille Recht Penner, Random House, 1995 ); and Raising the Roof ( by Ronald Kidd, Habitat for Humanity International, 1995 ).

Since October 2006 the bulletin has been presented by Eileen Whelan, following the departure of Anthony Murnane who was with the programme from the beginning.

Since 2009, the presenting has been shared by Eileen Whelan, Aengus Mac Grianna, Clódagh Walsh, and John Finnerty with Kate Egan, Eileen Dunne, and Susan Byrne doing relief presenting duties.

The seat has tended to lean towards Labor ever since, with Whelan being succeeded by Virginia Judge then Judge being defeated at the 2011 State election by Liberal and current member Charles Casuscelli.

While ACSH does not currently disclose their funding, Whelan described ACSH's contributors to John Tierney of the New York Times in 2007: " ACSH has a diverse funding base-we receive donations from private foundations and individuals and unrestricted ( usually very small ) grants from corporations.

The new series began on 12 September 2009, with Kathryn Thomas co-presenting with Marty Whelan now taking over from Aidan Power, who has since landed a job on The All Ireland Talent Show.

Since 2000, Whelan has provided the television commentary for RTÉ's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, although Whelan provided the Irish commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest 1987.

Since then Whelan has appeared as himself in feature films, at the co-opening of a Dunnes outlet in Galway with retired broadcaster Gay Byrne and filling a cameo role ( again as himself ) on the soap opera, Fair City.

She has also presented Eurovision Song Contest 1995, a Saturday night chat show called Kennedy, and was co-presenter with Marty Whelan on the magazine programme Open House.

To critical acclaim, Field Day Review has published essays and interviews by numerous eminent academics, including Benedict Anderson, Giovanni Arrighi, Tariq Ali, Terry Eagleton, Seamus Deane, Pascale Casanova, Alan Ahearne, Kevin Whelan, David Lloyd, Brendan O ' Leary, Luke Gibbons, and Joe Cleary.

Other teaching staff over the years has included Dorothy Burke ( Maggie Dence ), Susan Kennedy ( Jackie Woodburne ), Libby Kennedy ( Kym Valentine ) and Pepper Steiger ( Nicky Whelan ).

Also, because of Dave Whelan's purchase of the Fitness Club and founding of DW ( Dave Whelan ) Sports in the autumn of 2009, JJB has lost its association with FC and Wigan Warriors RLFC.

Whelan was master of ceremonies at The Rose of Tralee contest until Ryan Tubridy replaced him in 2003, a role which Whelan had held since 1997.

Whelan had filled the role of co-host alongside Mary Kennedy since 1998.

So if the invitee is snooping around in the dark, trips and falls on something, the land occupier is not liable since the snooper exceeded the consent given him / her ( Whelan v. Van Natta ).

Whelan shares her father's passionate interest in Canadian agriculture, having made Agriculture and Rural Development one of the key elements of policy during her tenure as Minister.

Whelan and Wigan Athletic made headlines in summer 1995 when Whelan's business connections in Spain helped him attract three Spaniards to the club – Roberto Martínez, Isidro Diaz, and Jesus Seba – who became known as ' The Three Amigos '.

Latics owner, Dave Whelan, made attempts to unite the fans when the JJB Stadium ( now DW Stadium ) opened in 1999, but in retrospect polarised the fans even further.

Dalglish made a run across his path into space, but Whelan used it as a dummy and clipped an exquisite ball over three Everton defenders into the path of Rush who, from the angle of the six-yard area, thumped the ball past Mimms, knocking over a camera in the process.

Attending this conference made Whelan an even stronger proponent.

Whelan was signed for Liverpool by Bob Paisley for a bargain £ 35, 000 on 19 September 1979, a few days before his 18th birthday and made his debut 18 months later, on the 3 April 1981, scoring his first goal in the 27th minute of the 3 – 0 league win over Stoke City at Anfield.

Manager Graeme Souness gave Whelan more first team opportunities in the new FA Premier League for the 1992 – 93 season, and he made 17 appearances ( scoring once ) as Liverpool finished sixth once again, but this came at the end of a season which had mostly been spent in the bottom half of the table and they stood 15th as late as early March.

In 1993 – 94, Whelan made more appearances than he had done in any of the previous three seasons – 23 in the Premier League, scoring once.

A partially independent documentary film was made by Waterford man Rick Whelan, which was released in 1993 as The Legend of Loftus Hall.

On Sunday 29 January 2012, Shaun Ryder exclusively announced on radio station Xfm that the band would return with the original and definitive lineup of himself, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, Gary Whelan on drums, Rowetta as backing vocalist, Mark Day on Guitar, Paul Davis " PD " on keyboards and dancer Mark Berry " Bez ".

Whelan's partnership with McMahon proved a great success and, although Whelan was himself injured later in the season, Mølby's return to fitness came too late to resume his place in midfield, which went to Nigel Spackman for the rest of the season.

He started only 12 of 38 league games, although he enjoyed a successful return to the team in the championship run-in, deputising for the injured Whelan.

A substitute slot for Gerry Ryan on his morning radio show on RTÉ 2fm in the summer of 2005 led to a more permanent return to the station for Whelan.

Katherine Marie Helmond ( born July 5, 1929, Galveston, Texas ) is an American film, theater and television actress, who portrayed Emily Dickinson on Meeting of Minds, as well as fictional characters, for which she is best-known, such as Jessica Tate on Soap, Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss ?, Doris Sherman on Coach, and Lois Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, as well as " Jacqueline " in The Lorax and Mrs. Lowry in Brazil.

Well-known names on radio and television that went through these smaller stations would include many of those who would go on to superpirates as listed above, but also people who left the pirate scene just before the superpirates emerged such as Marty Whelan, Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning, Ian Dempsey and Robbie Irwin.

* 7 June-Marty Whelan, RTÉ radio and television presenter.

Hosted by popular Irish television and radio personality Marty Whelan ( who signed off every show with the catchphrase: " How do you play?

Martin ' Marty ' Whelan ( born 7 June 1956 ) is a Jacob's Award-winning Irish radio and television personality currently working for Raidió Teilifís Éireann ( RTÉ ).

In the mid-1980s Whelan began developing his television career, becoming the first male presenter of the hit fashion programme Head 2 Toe.