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Ten Days In Dublin To Feature Tom "Tarquin" O'Mahony
If you've never heard of Tom O'Mahony or his more popular Tarquin, then you've missed out on a hilarious cultural treasure from Ireland but don't worry, you have a chance to see him perform live during the Ten Days of Dublin festival due to hit the city July 5th. If you do know Tarquin, then you'll know that any performance by the legendary comedian is not one to miss.
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Dublin's New Mayor Looks To Boost Tourism
Recently elected Lord Mayor Osin Quinn has his eye on turning Dublin into the tourism gateway to Europe, and that means all sorts of opportunities for the savvy traveler to take advantage of. Expect marketing campaigns and special deals to come pouring out of the city, and look forward to the perfect opportunity to visit the beautiful Irish city and save your wallet while you do.
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Dublin Gets Golden Opportunity For Culture & Entertainment
After years of unsuccessful use as a shopping mall, a warehouse at the very heart of Dublin may soon be converted into a cultural masterpiece in the form of a much desired contemporary art museum. The location wasn't suitable for a shopping center, but sitting so near to the city's center makes it the perfect site for a museum, a fact that local city planners now plan to capitalize on.
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Live, Love And Be Proud At the Dublin Gay Pride
The season of Gay Pride has once more befallen the globe with celebrations kicking off in cities from Las Vegas to Dublin, Ireland and with so much to celebrate this year it's no surprise that it promises to be one of the biggest years for Pride yet. Dublin's specific celebration was a ten-day festival topped off with a parade boasting 25,000 people last year and promising more for this year's iteration.
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Michelle Obama Dines With U2's Bono In Dublin
An all expense paid trip to the lovely city of Dublin is just one of the perks of being the family of the world's single most politically powerful man. The first lady and her daughters were also treated to a face to face dinner with beloved U2 singer Bono in a rendezvous that makes fans the world over green with envy.
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The Fitzwilliam Hotel In Dublin Wows Visitors
"Wow" is about the only thing that can be said in response to the offerings of Dublin's Fitzwilliam Hotel. The luxurious hotel, boasting a whopping 139 spacious and altogether astounding rooms, is parked in one of the city's most beautiful regions and offers up some exquisite vistas and is the perfect place for a getaway in style.
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Solange In Dublin For Birthday
Solange is doing things a little different this year as she kicks off for her trip to Dublin just in time for her birthday.Taking a smaller holiday then last years Texas bash, SoSo is getting a taste of beautiful Dublin, and fans in the area may have a chance to spot her at some of the city's swinging night spots.
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Kodaline Dublin's Rising star
Anyone familiar with the Dublin scene will be passionately in love with Kodaline as the band skyrockets to the number one slot, a title the homegrown band has fought tooth and nail to acquire. Performing throughout the city and slowly gaining popularity across the globe, it's only a matter of time before Dublin's homegrown stars become an international sensation.
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Dublin Embraces Rihanna
There was fear that a Dublin audience wouldn't receive the "slightly" sexualized Rihanna well after a spat of public censorship directed towards her concert billboards, but the smashing success of her concert and the wild partying in the city that followed has since dispelled any notion that the people of Dublin feel anything but love for the superstar.
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Dublin Blasts Off With European Space Expo
Trinity College in Dublin is going to have a special visit next week by the European Space Expo. They are bringing the stars to those both young and old, including interactive exhibits and workshops explaining the early stages of the universe, start formation and destruction, and especially about the Sun.
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Cage Warriors 55 To Duke It Out In Dublin
Cage Warriors 55 is coming to Dublin at the Helix Stadium. MMA fans won't want to miss this event as Irish Cathal Pendred battles Che Mills to retain the welterweight title. Cage Warriors 55 is hosting a slew of Irish fighters besides Pendred, such as Neil Sleery, Paul Redmond, John Redmond, Stephen Coll and Gavin Kelly.
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80 Lucky Fans Meet New York Dolls Up Close And Personal In Dublin
New York Dolls fans wont want to miss out on being up close and personal with guitarist Sylvain Sylvain on July 12th in Dublin's Thomas House venue. Only 80 tickets will be on sale for an intimate personal concert, priced at 26 Euros and being sold starting June 7th.
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Australian Dance Debuts In Dublin
The Dublin Dance Festival in Dublin, Ireland is once again turning heads, this year at the Project Arts Centre. Bringing with it a distinctly Australian style, famous for its athletic and physical nature, the festival promises to be a pleasant experience for audiences of all ages, with special focus for both young and old.
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Dublin Kicks of 2013's eHealth Week
Health care workers, specialists, politicians and nearly anyone involved in the medicinal fields have come together in Dublin for eHealth Week 2013 where the best and the brightest minds of various fields will showcase the latest and greatest innovations the industry has yet to develop.
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Year-Round Flights to Begin from Toronto to Dublin
Dublin and Toronto are getting year-round nonstop flights between each other, which is worth noting since both cities are normally visited during the summer. Is this a sign that Irish/Canadian trading and business is picking up or that some other notorious event is about to take place?
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Major eTourism Conference Coming to Dublin
The prominent eTourism conference will be making its way to Dublin for the 2014 edition of the event. The conference will address the difficulties faced by the travel and tourism industries in regards to the use of technology and communications.
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South African Apartheid Remembered in New Dublin Exhibit
Though South Africa's apartheid might seem like a local issue for reflection and remembrance, the truth of the matter is that people around the world were affected by the segregationist laws (to obviously varying degrees) and an exhibit in Dublin has opened up to celebrate the anti-apartheid movement in, of all places, Ireland.
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Dublin's Gresham Hotel Offers Ireland's Largest Suite
The largest hotel room in all of Ireland is situated in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin. Deemed the Eisenhower Penthouse, the room boasts 4,000 square feet and costs only 4,000 euros per night. With room for ten guests to sleep and butler service available, this luxury hotel room seems like a spectacular departure from the norm.
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Bridal Bizarre over the word 'white'
The official color of marriage can be linked to white of course. The bride's dress along with most of the flowers is usually opted to be white as it has become the most traditional color. With that being said White of Dublin is suing White Dress co as they offer similar items for similar occasions and the word white might cause a bit of confusion.
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Grandmother tackles armed robber
When an armed robbery occurs there are certain thing you would never expect to happen. One of those things being that an old lady should attack the robber with a rolled up newspaper. Well Dorothy Holmes, an 85-year-old Dublin woman challenged the status quo as she struck the thief in the face with a TV guide magazine.
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