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Patrice J. McDonald, a second-year student from Ireland, said the administration has also worked to attract more women and foreign applicants...
DUBLIN: Divorce, with a lot of strings attached, became legal in Ireland Thursday. Despite official sanction, breaking up is still hard to do more than a year after after foes narrowly lost a bitterly contested referendum but succeeded in writing the laws so that divorce will be a cumbersome bureaucratic procedure for the country's estimated 90,000 separated couples. To end a marriage, couples must first assemble a mass of sworn statements on finances, pension rights, health care benefits and child welfare before a court hearing date can be set. Next step: meeting the eligibility requirements. According...
Heaney, who is away in Ireland on a leave of absence, could not be reached for comment...
...Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving weak men and angry, churchbound women who wish they had married someone else. Bridie, Rayona's great-grandmother, is one of these harridans. She speaks gloatingly of withholding sex: "I taught my husband to beg, and I despised him for his weakness...
...Cullinanes are the parents of two Harvard alumni and have served as Co-chairs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Fund for three terms. Being of Celtic origin themselves--John's family is from Ireland while Diddy's are from Scotland--the Cullinanes later joined the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies...