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  • I should like vastly to go with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain.

    Stephen Moylan, an Irish immigrant from Cork who became acting Secretary to George Washington – the first President of the United States – coining the phrase ‘United States of America’ in a letter dated January 2, 1776. 

    Until now, the earliest documented use of the phrase dates back to an anonymous newspaper article published in the Virginia Gazette, in April 1776.

  • Scenes from the Run In The Dark the other night in Cork by Provision. 

  • I am here today taking responsibility. Why isn’t the bank taking responsibility? Why would you hand that money over to a compulsive gambler? Why didn’t they do a proper background check on my husband?

    A separated mother-of-two from Ennis, who cried in court as a county registrar granted a repossession order to KBC Bank for her family home. The woman told the Clare Registrar’s Court that KBC Bank “should have done their homework before handing my then husband €210,000 because he was a compulsive gambler at the time”.

  • Ironic name alert

    Came across this scholar in Cork. Paging Dr. Pickup.

    A photo posted by Carlo (@carlo_magliocco) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:06am PST

  • Some of the best sellers for children this coming Christmas, on view at the DreamToys 2014 list announcement in central London.